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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1890
Page
9
Maj. B R Ragland explains soil and drainage must suit tobacco type, warns against unsuitable lands and poor curing. He stresses skilled curing, proper barns and packing, early variety selection, and adapting to soil climate and season. He notes yellow varieties cure best on gray well drained soil and urges experimenting with Hyco and Bradley for easier yellow curing.
A reflective piece on female sorrow and memory, contrasting women's lasting burdens with men's forgetfulness. It cites silent figures such as Christ before Pilate, Ben Hur's mother, Enoch Arden, Betty Cecil, and a baby, to illustrate the power and tragedy of silence.
Danville’s prize winning letter by Mrs. A. M. Aiken offers 100 words on married life. It urges love faith and charity as foundations and urges harmony patience tolerance fidelity and hospitality, plus practical guidance like living within income and keeping a cheerful pious home.
A man famed for using over formal language remains absorbed in study as a house burns. Half his clothes burned, he escapes and shouts a comic alarm calling for the mechanical apparatus to fight the conflagration.
A collage of items covers politics, science, and society. Senator Allison's Iowa renomination, California raisin yields, and Chicago crime notes sit beside European treaties, naval and labor conferences, and census figures. The column also notes Florida oranges, Oklahoma emigration, and literary mentions.
February district revenue figures are nearly complete. Dr Tyre York, famed politician, is seriously ill at his Fe county home. A Fayetteville doctor reportedly invented the first telephone. A Shelbyville woman reportedly married her ninth husband. Ivory Bens Henderson touted as finest steel mine, valued at about $1,000. Judge MacRae ruled against WwW in a Raleigh superb court case. Hodges faces twenty suits of $500 each. E Smith linked to chairmanship rumors in the state executive committee. A large wedding occurred in Polk county with Jonah Edwards and Nellie Lerice. Snow largely melted here. Chapel had several inches, Dare county four inches. De Cross and White, former Raleigh bankers, began public-road labor. Mr Jas A Bryan of New Bern purchased a world-renowned medical device. Oxford Orphan Asylum inmates make $6,000–$7,000 yearly running shoes, brooms, garden products, and a printing office. A Sampson county couple wed on Tuesday James Henry and Henry James. Mail matter statistics cited from Raleigh post offices. The Progresive faction mail handling figure is 12,240.
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