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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1889
Page
2
A reflective poem contrasts earthly striving with inner life. It argues that life is not measured by wealth or fame but by the soul, where love, truth, and faith establish inner sanctities that negate outward hate and strife. The speaker warns that without an inner life, one remains wretched.
Letty and Nelly dodge scandal at Montreal Carnival as Charlie Bonar’s straw man design upends a political lynching scare. The judge’s temperance bid collapses when a staged masquerade reveal exposes a staged rival, sparking laughter and a hard lesson on appearances.
Washington social pages recount William Guyton the brakeman who saved Annie Darling from an aunt only to marry her after a daring nighttime escape. The couple wed with a quick parson visit and secured a flat on Twelfth Street. Guyton, once one thumb short from a 1882 Evansville to Chicago wreck, earned 5900 dollars and praise for flagging a pursuing passenger train. The same column notes Chicago businessman C W Russell’s colossal Bethel hat tale and Bets on a Connecticut factory hat block.
A survey of changing consumption shows fruit cheaper than meat and urban hunger for land pushing migrants into city tenements. Women in New Orleans and other cities form clubs studying political economy, while Ida Lewis rescues her uncle from harbor dangers.
An article describes Samoan musical life including wooden drums and conch shells used for warnings and schooling. It notes the Jew s harp and penny whistle as new instruments and hints at their social meaning as two people in the same room communicate secretly through the instrument.
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