28 Jul 1893
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1893
Page
1
A devotional meditation on cheerfulness gratitude and wisdom. It praises contentment kindness and love while warning against suspicion and idleness. The piece extols holiness, immortality, and the blessed state of believers with ornate religious imagery and reflective maxims.
A verbose meditation on kissing, praising its sensuous artistry while warning of excess. It extols the kiss as an emblem of love and spiritual ascent, citing poetic lines and biblical allusions to frame a debate on restraint and virtue.
A devotional exhortation states that different observers see different facets of sacred truth when they view toward Jesus. Each person may perceive a unique portion, yet all who seek earnestly in the right direction glimpse the Bible’s glory.
The passage compares youth to dew faultless frosted glass and frostwork, noting that once touched or defiled its purity cannot be restored. It warns that leaving home with innocence intact is vital, for crime’s effects endure, though forgiveness may follow by divine mercy.
A reflective condemnation of money’s grip on society and individuals. The piece argues money corrupts honesty and destroys family bonds, comparing earthly wealth to a cursed idol that yields no peace after death and blinds souls from eternal glory.
A reflective sermon urges acts of kindness over praise for the dead. It uses biblical imagery of an alabaster box and precious ointment to urge women to scatter love on the living, so as to brighten souls and dispel gloom during life’s pilgrimage.
The passage compares love to a tender rose that will not bloom under cold distrust. It requires soft encouragement and warm cheer to awaken growth, allowing the bud to burst into glorious life and produce a fragrant bloom like Paradise.
A highly educated woman with broad study in quadratics pneumatics and world lore cannot prepare meals for a hungry family. She is learned in Peruvian and Mexican cultures, ancient peoples and sciences, yet constrained by a lack of practical domestic skill.
A Wilson husband tries to pacify his wife with sweet talk and a compliment about her youth and beauty while she retorts that he has not changed at all in this long marriage, in a humorous domestic anecdote.
At a quiet evening gathering a lady offered refreshments to a gullible guest who refused. He quips that you cannot make him drink. She replies that things preserved in alcohol never change. The man, aging and merry, mistakes a napkin for food as the meal drags on in stony silence.
A lyrical meditation on the soul reaching a peaceful afterlife. The speaker longs for rest beyond earthly turmoil, seeking a timeless home where love remains and doubt fades. It envisions freedom from earthly fetters and a tranquil passage through shadows to a serene destination.
Harold pleads with Mildred in a melodramatic scene while a mock suicide gesture is interrupted by a jarring ad for Dr. W S Anderson liver pills offering cure in twenty four hours with testimonials and guarantee.
A reflective screed extols women as the sum of male felicities and joys while dividing sorrows by their transportive presence. It lauds their soothing influence and healing charms, declaring men would be cyphers without them and that the male sighs reflect this dependence.
Mr Profoundity speaks of powerful silent natural forces as he eats breakfast. His wife interjects with a humorous twist about silent snow getting the swill while he hesitates for a simile.
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