16 Jul 1890
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1890
Page
1
A reflective ode to Maplewood cemetery as a refuge from sorrow. It extols peaceful graves, memory’s link to loved ones, and the Christian vision of Heaven where suffering ends and eternal light shines.
An editorial praising water as nature's gift contrasts it with alcohol, arguing water is benign and life sustaining. It extols pristine drink as pure, while denouncing liquor as the devil’s drink and a source of vice and ruin. The piece invokes sea spray and forests to celebrate water’s virtue.
The page surveys global and domestic notes from cholera in Spain to iron production in Roanoke Virginia. It highlights Indiana gold discoveries, New England factories crowded with work, new textile mills, a Franco Russian alliance, and a 100000 cotton factory planned for Montgomery Alabama.
A collection of maxims and reflections on life hardship and virtue. It spans cautions on perception and humility, notes on industry and honesty, and lines about faith and the afterlife. The voice blends practical wisdom with religious consolation.
A string of whimsical lines mentions mountain beauty and imagined ruins in Boot and shoe makers busy with work. Notes on new censuses for Minneapolis and St Paul and unpaid Cincinnati teachers appear alongside a joke about a watermelon and a gentle Argentine fever at a summit.
The steamer City of Paris set a new transatlantic record completing the crossing in five days and ten hours. The piece also mixes curious clippings on society, geopolitics, and weather news with varied notes from Haverhill to Muscatine.
A scattered Salisbury and Wilmington era column notes diverse items. Population guesses for Fair Bluff appear, Seagraves and Tyson sell interests near Egypt for 5000 to a Northern firm, and Rev. Dr. Dixon joins Oxford College relations. Governor Fowle orders execution of Avera Butler. youth cited for possible commutation amid petitions.
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