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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1890
Page
2
A Coburns magistrate sentenced ten year old David Smith for a stabbing near Percy. The judge rejected prison and ordered twenty lashes by his father, then close confinement for a month. The town praised the unconventional punishment as wise.
A Chicago bar grandfather owned Bruno a sagacious dog trained to fetch meat from the butcher. Bruno deposited pennies into a garden cache and later dug them up to exchange for supper, proving a clever canine bank in a tale from the Chicago Herald.
A Popular Science Monthly description traces beach formation from sand flats to shifting dunes, then sheltered hillocks, grasses and shrubs, and finally trees. Wind and tides drive dune movement, while vegetation gradually stabilizes dunes into a forested coastline over centuries.
The children of Prince Albert of Prussia are educated in both crafts and intellect. The elder sons study bookbinding and masonry while the younger prepares to be a joiner under supervision. Prince Albert prioritizes this practical training for his sons. Mrs. Lydia Fearin, likely Boston’s oldest woman, died at about 101.
A collage of humorous vignettes and quips from period magazines features Cupid in quarantine with a promising young doctor Hal Morris, a beggar who dies leaving ten thousand pounds, and comic exchanges about meals engagement and urban life. The sketches parody social pretensions and middle class foibles through brief, dialogue driven bits.
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