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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 06, 1891
Page
6
A poetic reflection on life and mortality compares daily variation to life’s course. It contemplates trusting God, traveling toward death, and a heavenly journey to an eternal life beyond. The verses attribute authorial voice to Harry L. Dunlap in Drake's Magazine.
Tom Barclay and Elizabeth Murray quarrel over autonomy and obedience on the eve of their marriage. After a failed engagement, a financial crash, and years apart, they reunite in Portland Alaska travels, and a healing romance leads to a second engagement with renewed affection and mutual understanding.
The Navy will buy a paper whaleboat gig from Waters Paper Construction Company New York for testing at the New York Navy Yard. Paper racing boats are light and durable though new to ship use. the experimental gig may be submerged without soaking and save about fifty percent in weight with comparable cost.
The piece notes soap in India is scarce in rural areas and a curiosity, with sales limited to larger towns. It cites a total yearly consumption of 5,000 tons, implying per person use of far less than an ounce.
An article describes Monaco as a small principality earning most of its revenue from the Casino Monte Carlo run by a French-backed stock company. It details the royal lineage, the franchise terms, the casino layout, admission, and the sweeping influence of roulette on visitors.
A visitor who studied archeology describes petrified stone formations on Pigeon Mountain near Crawfish Springs and Lookout Mountain McLemore's cave. He imagines the rock structures as ancient, decayed walls of houses once inhabited by people, echoing a ruined city.
An amusing tale about Sir William Thompson the famed English physician who had been ill and stubbornly refused medicines for days. Doctors threatened to abandon him before he finally took the prescribed draughts. The episode prompts disbelief that a top doctor distrusts drugs when treated himself.
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