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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1891
Page
6
Poem excerpt showing moral contrast between a swift but corrupt racer and a steadfast, morally upright runner who pursues a divine reward. Clinton Scrollard cited from Youth's Companion.
Amund Myra, a Norwegian carpenter in Chicago, saves for his son the Little Chap and buys a West Side cottage from a slick broker Farley. The deed proves a forgery and Amund, impoverished and heartbroken, confronts ruin until his boy's courage rekindles hope and they begin life anew.
Mrs Lorrata J Beard of Montana holds a Mexican railroad concession from Tucson to Lobos and pursues ventures with Munich capitalists including an Arizona onyx quarry. She lists six Arizona and Mexico mines on the London Exchange, backs Lower California development and a tropical fruit canal plan, and promotes a free continental trade bill in Congress.
The article traces Cuba’s sugar industry from its origins to modern methods, noting the shift from oxen to steam, wider field work, and narrow gauge trains. It describes cane transport, dual grinding, bagasse fuel, automatic conveyors, and the three boiling stages yielding 85 percent sugar and 15 percent molasses before shipment to New York.
A physician known for heavy dinners visits a female patient while intoxicated and cites the event to the lady in a moment of weakness. The next morning a letter arrives admitting her prior condition and enclosing a $500 hush gift to keep the matter secret.
A fragment from St Louis Republic notes Italian derivations for starboard and port from phrases meaning this side and your side. It mentions admiralty orders to throw overboard and substitute port, with references dating as early as 1580.
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