30 May 1894
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1894
Page
1
A fragmentary poem from the Minneapolis Tribune laments life's brevity through a sequence of small images. It paints a funeral cortege, mortal toil, and a fading family scene, ending with a somber note on life’s cycle and death.
In Bourgogne a miller rich in money loves his daughter Martha who favors cousin Thomas. Three suitors Jean Martin and Jacques write letters to claim her hand. A jealous plan to block rivals at the mill bridge backfires, leaving Jean in peril and Thomas winning Martha’s heart.
An Easel in Edson HH Pierce's San Joaquin street parlor has sprouted four shoots through paint and gilding. Mrs. Pierce expects a crop of little easels. The six foot high piece came from an old man who claimed it was brought from the mountains. The sprouts are on the left upright. largest near the top about two and a half inches long.
A Medico Legal Society paper by Dr. Alel Osborne presents cases of abrupt disappearances with no ordinary explanation. It recounts a Philadelphia tradesman vanishing while at home with his family and reappearing years later in another state with no memory of his past.
The New York Press recounts Henry A Ward of Rochester as a youngster selling minerals and fossils, digging for fossil ceritheum gigantheum with two helpers, and later discovering stibnite crystals in Japan. He bought the lot for 75 dollars and resold part to fund a year of travel.
Brother Gardner reads a club epistle from the State Department query about the motto and its meaning. The Limekiln Club recites mottos from Latin phrases to practical jokes about honesty, strength, and charity while stories of parish life and old values color the meeting in a humorous, moralizing tone.
A photographer describes a massive hill of oyster shells at West Fifty Sixth Street near Fifty Fifth Street. The shells are processed in kilns to produce lime, with chimneys and shutes visible above the hill as shells are moved to be burned for industrial use.
One of the world’s largest hospitals, Misericordia in Rio de Janeiro, treats more than 15 000 patients each year.
A New York Journal quotation praises a mongrel cur called a mongrel car, noting that affection and esteem come from good qualities rather than breeding. The text contrasts curs, bird dogs, and setters with the plain-apparent nobility of the mongrel car. The writer emphasizes lasting admiration for a dog that rises above plebeian origin.
A fragmented humor column sketches a noisy scene about a jeweler’s misfortune a reporter’s secret ladies meeting and a chorus of quips. It mixes jokes about marriage hair care and social faux pas with brief jokes from New York and Chicago papers.
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