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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1889
Page
6
A brief lament recalls days of grace and beauty now passed. The speaker laments not cherishing flowers and smiles and mourns fruitless tears for sweet communion lost to time and decay, reflecting on loneliness and longing.
A sick boy longed to see the old elephant. Cowboys pursuing a circus obstruction are moved to aid the granger by donating money to enable the elephant to reach the child. The elephant appears by request and comforts the boy as the granger prays, ending with a rescued moment and a changed stance on border disputes.
Marblehead, Massachusetts, preserves narrow streets and old houses dating 150 to 200 years, surviving fire damage while drawing curious visitors. The town’s fishing heritage shifted to machine made shoes, and legends like Parson Avery and Skipper Ireson enrich its allure, celebrated by poets such as Whittier and Holmes.
A piece discusses taming birds through patient interaction and feeding from the hand. It then shifts to vivid, graphic depictions of modern slaughterhouses with cattle and hog processing, describing hooks, steam, scalding, and the delivery of meat to markets in Chicago in the 19th century.
A childhood bee misadventure shows a boy shielding a swarm with a leafy bush while tin pans bells and seashell horns called the bees. The swarm settles on his head and shoulders as his hat falls, but he escapes stings. the lesson is never strike a bee.
The readable fragments discuss Tintoretto images and a clock motif across ancient and modern depictions. They reference Brutus and Caesar, a large white surplice, and a gun frigate while noting shifts in artists and authors over fifty years before Shakespeare.
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