16 Mar 1892
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1892
Page
1
A collage of aphorisms and playful witticisms attributed to Henry Blount, mixing social quips with moral reflections. The piece lampoons opinions on love, anger, trust, and everyday folly through paradoxes and lively imagery. It riffs on trains of thought about honesty, appearance, and the nature of character.
A devotional meditation extols home music as a sanctifying force for children and families. It urges Christian culture to counter street temptation, promotes Jesus as the cradle song, and laments the loss of children when doors and hearts grow silent. The piece notes a heavenly chorus joining earthly songs in heaven.
A renowned oration by Senator Benjamin Hill extols Gen. Robert E. Lee praising his virtues. The tribute describes him as fearless yet merciful, virtuous in public life and private conduct, loyal to authority, and without hypocrisy or guile.
Dossey Battle quotes a group of 89 state residents who underwent Keeley treatment. They describe three weeks of bi chloride of gold injections and Keeley tonic, paying 75 dollars, and claim craving for liquor vanished and health improved. They acknowledge uncertainty about the chemical, but assert sobriety followed the process.
The text extols a woman as the purest, kindest, noblest person imaginable. It likens her to a heavenly angel and a flawless ideal while noting her paradoxical coldness and reserve. The piece frames her as a near perfection despite a chilly, alpine-flowers imagery.
The Durham Globe editor fondly recalls the Sunday prayer hymn Jesus Lover of My Soul. The piece contrasts holy verse with modern infirmity and questions who asks forgiveness for deeds known, urging readers to seek spiritual renewal in God’s house.
An appeal highlights the loneliness of old age and urges tender acts and sympathy for seniors whose companions have died. It calls readers to brighten their declining years and ease their solitary existence with care and kindness.
John Weaver and his wife sat on the porch admiring chickens. The rooster's positive air and the hen's eggitive look spark patter about wit and a playful eggstravaganza of fowl puns.
A reflective meditation on heartbreak and memory. The author describes Cupid’s wounds as deep and enduring, resisting time and spiritual balm, and notes momentary flashes of past happiness that return with sorrow.
The passage claims wisdom names religion and asserts two aims drive humanity. It states wisdom leads to pleasure, with religion serving as the path to both wisdom and pleasure for all social ranks.
A playful dispute over writing style was raised when a young learner mocked our long sentences. The remark sparked a lively exchange about rhetorical verbosity and clarity in instruction at Wilson Collegiate Institute.
The sender Pegasus offers a 473 verse poem titled Why despotted butterflies plume their speckled pinions. The piece suggests butterflies prefer flight to walking, implying a preference to flap wings over using legs.
A sermon-like exhortation stresses resisting temptation and nurturing noble aspirations as steps toward a greater movement guiding humanity toward richer life, higher character, and nobler destiny.
A colleague shares Eddie's witty line about cremation, noting his habit of turning topics into puns. The remark riffs on the phrase I thought the man ate the cream but now I see it is cream ate the man.
A reflective verse contrasts steady progress toward enlightenment with the pull of darkness as time slips away. The speaker imagines steps toward endless light or descent into perpetual night, warning that moments pass quickly and shape the future.
A man recalls Eddie proposing to his girlfriend last night. She asked what she said, but she remained silent as the doctor reports neck pressure will ease in a week and rib injuries are not severely crushed.
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