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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1891
Page
7
A Sunday sermon celebrates winter as a teacher of faith. The speaker rereads snow as a symbol of God’s small blessings, collective power, and moral renewal, urging personal holiness and trust in divine guidance.
In a Christmas scene a boy, Tom Murrell, staged a Mary Queen of Scots tragedy for his sister Agnes using a doll, an ax, and a prop block. The rehearsal ended badly when the boy severed his index finger with the ax during the decapitation act, leaving the doll headless and the finger shortened.
Edith Sessions Tapper humorously notes the trials of interviewing women revealing delays and mood driven receptions. She praises the successful businesswoman as a compelling subject with education, daring advertising, and a rich social milieu for gossip and vivid detail.
Gers. LEE refused 200000 dollars and a royalty to write a Southern history of the war. He believed it improper to publish such work during his lifetime.
Edmund Yates quotes that Mars Hat wos Motrsr spends part of each day in the mausoleum of his English wife Mary Burt, standing beside her tomb in deep meditation.
The New York World reports a grim rise in hardship as one ninth of the city’s population lacks work in the winter. Thousands of skilled workers, tradespeople, and mothers seek daily sustenance, while youths and outcasts also face poverty and drift.
A condensed territorial report lists area 115000 square miles population 50601 total taxable property 25050224 and a tax rate of 2.95 per 100. It notes debts 3421688.7 percent, railroad mileage 1093 miles, irrigation canals 7 miles and 25000 acres irrigated. It cites 1750000 acres pine forests San Francisco mountains and school property value 280000 with school expenditures 145 per year and 10760 children ages 6 to 15, 7000 enrolled.
Simeon Duck of Victoria British Columbia claims a string of seventh day seventh month and seventh son lore. He left London on the seventh month’s seventh day and arrived next month at 7 am. He won by seven votes and then lost by seven votes in the next election, asserting every detail as truth.
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