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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 23, 1888
Page
6
Poem reflects on hardship and faith with refrains that even this will pass away. The speaker describes weary labor, despair, and the comfort of faith as grief yields to the idea that every burden ends. The verse acknowledges mortality and eventual rest beyond sorrow.
Edith Marvin, a fashionable Cambridge belle, navigates a visit to Robert Marvin’s Quaker family by shedding worldliness and adopting simple attire. She wins over relatives through tact and genuine warmth, earning their approval and a future as their daughter-in-law. Esther aids discreetly, while Edith plans a future with her fiancé amid family expectations.
A week-old Ladies' Bicycle Club in the city grows to thirty members. The president says the lightweight bicycle replaces the tricycle, allowing graceful riding with snug jackets hats and gloves. Membership is by unanimous vote and private status. gentlemen may join as honorary members.
A jeweler recalls the rite of first ear piercing as a family spectacle. An elder sister volunteers, the mother steadies, and after a tense attempt the operation succeeds with the jeweler finishing the moment by asking about solitaire sizes for future earrings.
A hotel clerk details how a guest named A Q Jones deposits a sealed $2,000 express money roll for safekeeping and a suspicious Gurlproat is traced amid a courtroom tone. The story unfolds with a bellboy, a courier, and a mislaid bag as the safe is found emptied and a circus-like reveal ensues.
An itinerant circus clown in St Petersburg mocked Finance Minister Vishnegradski by challenging his pig to lift a paper table. The audience laughed, but the clown was arrested the next day and sentenced to three days in jail.
In Canton a Buddhist affair led to vows and the arrest of two monks who assaulted young women after leaving the temple. The abbot sought trial and punishment, court lashes were imposed, and upon release the offenders returned with knives. They were burned in a public punitive display as a warning to other recruits.
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