28 Mar 1888
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1888
Page
1
A long column reflects on Job’s wife and mercy, urging sympathy for sufferers and widows, then reproduces a battle field letter from Spotsylvania about a young couple's plea to marry, followed by verses on marriage and a bee life analogy and a moral ending.
A lively collage notes editorials and social chatter. References to public figures, fashion shifts, labor figures, and foreign affairs mix with anecdotes, humor, and local curiosities from across the nation.
A Raleigh construction push to build a $16,000 Methodist church, new Belgian stone blocks for Raleigh streets, and a railway expansion update in the region accompany reports of coal geology in Dan river fields and convicts hired for the Carolina Knoxville and Western railroad. Also noted are local elections, Prohibitionist convention plans, and a proposed California-bound colonization by Black migrants from North Carolina.
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