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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1889
Page
2
A collage of light vaudeville style quips and social scenes from a late 19th or early 20th century paper. Jokes about university life, courtship, fashion, sport, wealth, and curious conversations showcase a bustling urban milieu. Characters include German students, young suitors, a Brooklyn or Boston crowds, and witty bystanders with urban flavor.
A Pennsylvanian farmer recounts trapping a massive bald eagle that had dragged the trap and stake for miles. The bird attacked the man with a torn wing and chest wounds before being subdued and dying days later. its mounted form now resides in a Philadelphia museum.
A historical narrative recounts Ben Montgomery, once enslaved and later freed, who managed the Jefferson and Joseph Davis properties known as the Hurricanes in Warren County Mississippi. It notes his loyalty to the Davises, control of vast cotton crops, and eventual reclamation of the properties after emancipation, with Montgomery maintaining operations and living near Beaver while Davis visits periodically.
Fragmentary OCR note lists characters and phrases with no clear events or identities. It reads as a garbled item without coherent names places or dates.
A garbled excerpt reveals fragmented lines about teeth bills and sleepless nights. The puzzling wording hints at a distressed speaker recounting a tense conversation and uneasy emotions. The text resembles a loosened diary or poem fragment from a historical page.
Peter Srers of St Paul fell sixty feet from a bluff while guiding two young women to pick honeysuckle. A limb broke and he plunged to the rocks, dying at the scene. The incident occurred on the bluff near the river.
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