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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1890
Page
14
A reflective poem on death and remembrance, describing a coffin scene with a sorrowful family at a graveside. The speaker notes a white blossoms and a bundle of ripened wheat near the deceased and reflects on a life of labor, asking for a peaceful, productive afterlife. Jerome Sandeau is cited in the Courier-Journal.
The narrator and four companions travel toward Murray City when bushrangers seize the stage and demand ransom. After days of captivity the Englishman captors refuse to pay, Eva the girl manipulates the pistols enabling the prisoners to kill the four outlaws at their camp. Police later chase and kill the bushranger leaders.
A fragmentary Epoch page excerpt shows banter about a deceased man killed in the line of duty and a joking mood among speakers. Quotations touch on modesty, baths, missing fish, a dog, and Barrows' generosity, with casual dialogue and light humor.
Inocendid and Mrs. Martines in Penasco near Toas welcome a male child weighing seven and three quarters pounds with a leg growing from the shoulder blade and no ears. The child lies on its side supported by a frame and is believed healthy by Dr. Hartman. Locals fear a omen while crowds gather amid daily church services and superstition.
A wealthy New Yorker insists on exchanging notes at the Bank of England without identification, threatening protest if required to endorse or name the notes. The incident ends with the notes cashed, linked to Jay Gould's secretary Morosini in Chicago News.
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