11 Mar 1891
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1891
Page
1
A column of humorous and pithy maxims on life, religion, love, and manners by Henry Blount. It mixes proverbs, quips about commerce, slang, and social critique with reflections on truth, authority, and character. The tone is spirited and period voice.
An elderly armchair essayist muses on aging and memory. He traces time through science, Christianity, internal improvement, and phonographs, and then finds solace in beauty and music as he nears eternity. The piece blends nostalgia with hope in a period voice.
A发表 denunciation decries meek faced hypocrisy and the harmful gossip that ruins reputations by spreading foul accusations, describing the gossip as a pestilent stream contaminating character with basest claims.
Hascal argues against using physical punishment on children and condemns wife beating. She urges calm, patient teaching, recalling literary figures who celebrated childhood. The piece elevates Christian ethics as the standard for nurturing youth from school days onward.
The Durham Sun quotes critics that cities boast expensive berries while urging patience for local fruit. The column extols buckwheat cakes and fried oysters as seasonal staples and praises the strawberry when spring wanes, preferring June roses and sun warmed fruit over costly hot house berries.
Willey Hunter proprietor of Gregory Hotel in Goldsboro has leased Island Beach Hotel at the Hammocks. He plans major enhancements including a 100 room addition a 50 by 75 foot ballroom and a theatre plus a pony livery on the beach to attract visitors. The improvements aim to make Island Beach Hotel a premier North Carolina summer resort with famed hospitality.
A refined reader sends a long letter praising the uplifting power of flowers and kindness. The writer notes personal sorrows yet finds solace in The Wilson Mirror and hopes to brighten others’ lives with gentle deeds and hopeful sentiments.
A humorous Victorian set of quips and jokes told by Eddie about love, manners, crimes, and social foibles. The playful items include lineaments on kissing, dresses, crinolines, and professions with punny answers and pointed satirical twists.
A humorous Wise Words column mocks vanity and self-importance, urging young men to focus on work over looks. It notes beauty fades, urges staying home to mind business, and jokes about handsome men growing old and shaming mirrors.
A reflective meditation on women as burdened by fidelity and reverence. The metaphor compares women to a hedge of sweet peas reaching for a strong thing to climb, and when found even rough in darkness they cling unto death.
The piece warns against preemptively creating obstacles by overthinking and fleeing from imagined troubles. It cautions readers to stop piling “bars and thorns” along life’s path and to avoid leaping at distant difficulties that may vanish once approached, urging practical, calm steps.
The text extols a benefactor who can lift blues with merriment and dispel despair with laughter. It praises humor as a universal blessing that unites, eases care, and sweetens bitter times, describing humor as a radiant thread in daily life.
A reflective piece describes death as a doorway to beauty and reunion, suggesting the beds of immortality swell and hearts reconnect with loved ones in an eternal, glorious afterlife.
A poem fragment describes a speaker’s dead heart stirred by a strand of sunny hair found in a huckleberry pie. The quirky discovery awakens grief and prompts questions about sadness and sight.
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