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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1888
Page
3
A Sunday sermon denounces profanity as a growing social vice tracing to habit, upbringing, and workplace culture. It cites Job’s trials, urges repentance, cites tragic oaths, and frames sanctified speech as essential to moral progress and societal reform.
Brooklyn congressman DeBacon White announces he will not seek reelection. He criticizes House rules that block ambitious legislation, admits he has dabbled in many ventures from teaching to business, and notes a private wire rumor linked to his early session activity. He references a letter to a constituent and cites committee suppression as a barrier to debate.
A monumental mausoleum for Senator Stanford rises in San Francisco aiming to outdo the Gould and Van derbilt tombs. Constructed of imperishable Vermont granite and Italian marble, the project bears no cost limit and anticipates transportation costs from abroad, with an overall outlay near 100000 pounds.
The article criticizes Kentucky for the treasurer’s defalcation, arguing the real harm lies in ruining a good man. It laments sentiment and friendship overriding business controls and notes that public funds are safest under strict scrutiny, while friends tempt leniency.
Bowen, once an Arkansas broker, went to Colorado a decade ago. He won $100 in poker and financed a grub stake through a prospector, gaining the Little Annie and Golconda mines. The mines have paid him up to $10,000 daily in cash, with ore in sight conservatively valued at $2,500,000.
Colonel Frep Grant suggests General Badeau pressed his claim against the Grant estate after Grant was chosen to lead the Republican ticket in New York last fall. The inference is Badeau expected a private settlement rather than a public debate.
Ex Governor Heapty of Ohio, often named as Waite's potential successor, is a proven lawyer but his numerous eccentricities lead friends to doubt his fitness for the Chief Justice post.
A Kansas City to Memphis trainman recalls a clever female spotter who rode the Fort Scott and Gulf line. She paid with a new ten dollar note, claimed her husband was a railroad conductor, and after a friendly offer of free transport she vanished, leaving the man dismissed by the company days later.
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