17 Feb 1892
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1892
Page
1
A fragment from a 19th century column features Henry Blount’s humorous maxims on manners virtue and society. It jests at religion romance and everyday life with pithy quips and sharp satire, including notes on age appearance and social pretensions.
A Thursday evening concert in Mamona Hall showcased Mrs. Fred Woodard’s leadership with a splendid lineup. Nellie Waddell, Mrs. W B Hill, Lillian Penick, Lizzie Barnes, Sallie Price, Julia Gay, Alice Jones, Captain Frank Cunningham, Captain Leath, Dr. Wright Will Harriss, Will Hewlette, and Alice Barnes delivered lush vocal and recitation performances amid elegant stage craft and refined ornamentation.
A reflective meditation on grief after loss, urging restraint in mourning and urging acts of sympathy. It speaks of bereavement as a shared fate, the need to stay steadfast, and the belief that suffering deepens compassion and diligence in service to others. It concludes with a faith that God’s ways refine endurance.
A guidance on avoiding profanity in print work notes that swearing serves little outside proofreading and press tasks. It cautions against the habit as vulgar unless needed for proofreading in a printing context.
A letter urges Christians to abandon sectarian bickering and prejudice. The Skeptic answers that rivalries erode Christlike charity, calling for unity across churches to advance God's kingdom and spread peaceful fellowship.
A reflection on matrimonial strife tracing its roots to lost courtesy between spouses. The piece contrasts the chivalry of courtship with the blunt friction of married life, noting how small acts of kindness once common to lovers could ease daily domestic friction.
A descriptive sketch portrays a renowned judge famed for criminal and civil mastery yet puzzled by everyday tools. Despite keen legal intellect and ardor for justice, his difficulty with a knife and pencil reveals a humorous human flaw and humanizing contrast.
A devotional piece extols mothers as a shelter in sorrow guiding children through trials. It urges seeking maternal comfort in trouble, portraying a mother's love as radiant, protective, and sacred amid adversity.
On Nash Street a man pressed a woman to join him on the porch to view the night sky and a passing comet. She refused until a moment of tension when a kiss attempt was thwarted and a nearby witness, Mr Henry Blount, was noted but kept silent.
A young man, after deep study and many experiences, declares that a kiss is not a proxysm but a loud vibration caused by atmospheric forces and the breath from the lips, a product intended to keep lovers in sweet delirium.
A meditation contrasts knowledge with wealth and power, praising knowledge as ecstatic, limitless, and enduring. It asserts knowledge fears no danger, funds exploration from volcano to ocean, and expands human understanding across sea and land, air and sky.
The writer urges not to suspect or accuse a friend of wrong until the friend’s own version and explanation are heard. Maintaining forbearance honors past friendship and prevents misunderstandings and heartache.
A New York man seeks divorce claiming his wife grows a mustache on her lip, a condition he says drives him to anger more than his own facial hair. He states the mustache mars his view of her and prompts legal action.
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