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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1894
Page
5
Local notice promotes premium subscription to American Farmer and a New York Ledger partnership. Also mentions carriage purchases by Jeff Farrier, two close carriages and an open by Winstead gallery with crayon and pastel services. Obituary notes death of Mr. Thomas G. Boddie of Nashville after a churchgoing Sunday.
An excerpt from the National Druggist March issue notes the peanut as a potential food crop. Henry R. Strong and Dr. Frank L. James edit the monthly in St. Louis. Strong, once a Wilson citizen, is related to Judge Strong of Raleigh.
Dr John Mitchell donated two years of salary toward the Baptist Church edifice at Franklinton. The piece honors his long toil prayer and preaching in building the church and notes the deeper monument of a spiritual church under God.
The North Carolina Experiment Station issues Special Bulletin No. 16 on February 14, 1894. It analyzes fertilizer brands, compares merits, explains value estimation and usage, and provides a freight-rate schedule from seaboard to interior points. Copies available from H. B. Battle in Raleigh for reference.
The Mirror editor Henry Blount returns to Wilson after seven months away and recounts his varied experiences in the wild West. He has built a reputation his future ventures may struggle to sustain, yet remains willing to lecture at home. En route home he was stopped at Chapel Hill and lectured Saturday night and has been invited to Henderson and New Bern among other places.
Mr. W. L. Ward toured Eureka presenting a stereopticon show for the Oxford Orphan Asylum. The program mixed comic scenes with lectures and many illustrated views from Yosemite, Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Scotland, and other American locales. The night closed with humorous scenes and a good night slide.
Personal mentions recount visits and arrivals around Wilson. N B Norman left Wilson for fall, Miss Kelly visited aunt Mrs Quarles, Carrington of Richmond joined town, Dortch of Goldsboro in town, Will Jenkins of Henderson here, Mrs Howard of Quarles Manning arrived, George Parker and wife from Rocky Mount spent Sunday, Williard Moss sailed safely to port, M B Banes of Philadelphia and Elder E V White with Virginia kin visiting Elder P D Gold, Rev J M McManaway formerly of Wilson and Big Stone Gap accepted to lead First Baptist Church of Louisiana Missouri, Frank Hancock formerly of Newbern now of Oxford visited Wilson.
On March 10, twelve months and eight days after inauguration, Wilson’s post office was handed to white leaders. The piece praises Sam Vick as a good officer yet criticizes the move as a display against Southern sentiment by a negro congressman. The writer urges swifter action to reflect white public will.
The failure of Wiley Corbett draws sympathy as his enterprising, thrifty character is noted. Affected creditors expect safety from his prudent assests and the managing of debts, while the hotel at the railroad and depot removal trigger closures and wider regional impact.
The passage mocks politicians and aging, with lines on youth and peril. Susan and Alice discuss belated fears of aging while Mr. Hewitt denounces politicians, claiming they are unfit for anything, then impliedly noting a Sunday school speech before elections.
The secretary of the Fiktart Carriage and Harness Co of Eikhart Ind invites readers to request their 112 page catalogue by sending 4 cents in stamps before purchasing carriages wagons bicycles or harness. Elderly readers are urged to remember spring bitters and Ayer’s Sarsaparilla as a health restorer and maintainer.
The piece urges merchants to advertise more in local papers to boost town thrift and patronage. It argues that using printer's ink builds business by presenting goods, prices, and samples to prevent customers from shopping North and to bring orders to local doors.
Mrs W B Hill offers Music and Voice Culture lessons in a notable advertisement. Wallace Batchelor runs a saloon restaurant and drug store with fresh goods, private dining, a jolly, big hearted service, and a seed section for gardeners. Hargrave bakes fresh drugs and seeds, next to the Post Office, urging readers to call in.
A New York figure known as the Queen of Horses gains renewed prominence as royal ties abroad stabilise relations. The gunboat Machias will be lengthened when docked, though the tail topic remains unsettled in local chatter.
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