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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1887
Page
3
Fragmented verse depicting a sick narrator with rheumatism and heart disease. The speaker laments coughing spells, trembling nerves, and a collapsing spine, imagining a cemetery lot as a fate. The text mocks medical distress and mortality with comic despair.
Osmand Tiffany recalls a day with Washington Irving at Sunnyside near White Plains. He describes Irving’s modest manner, hospitality to visitors, travel anecdotes with Van Buren, and reminiscences of the Revolution, Shakspeare, and European tours.
A Hartford child joined the church service at the end of prayers and surprised his mother by playing a harmonica, while the choir concluded with the Amen. The scene was described as a unique local moment in the Hartford Post.
A reader corrects an Indian paper’s Dickens grandmother story, noting Old Mrs Dickens was a Crewe housekeeper to Lord Crewe and praising her storytelling. The letter recalls Lady Houghton’s childhood memories of Mrs Dickens and mentions John Dickens’s idleness as a disliked topic.
Aimee, a lively storyteller with a growing English accent, recalls a Baltimore to New York trip. In a crowded car she shares a seat with a generous gentleman while her poodle Cesar sits under the seat. The man’s flirtatious gestures lead to comic confusion about a flirtation.
A foreign observer contrasts American and European journalism, praising Americans for go ahead and don't be in a push attitudes while noting European papers lack concise news. He cites Dutch and German press quirks, editors as scapegoats, and special correspondents in Parisian outlets, highlighting publicity tricks and newspaper culture.
Editor Twitchell of the Gorham Mountaineer cherishes his grandmother's spinning-wheel for its tale. Eighty five years ago his grandfather rode to Fryeburg for a wife, bringing home a red horse with the wife atop and the spinning-wheel tied behind, a relic now treasured in family lore.
A Cincinnati Telegram item portrays a family outing with a prominent businessman father in a woodland scene. A bright girl asks about a noise in a tree while a gray squirrel dashes by and a humorous moment centers on a red headed woodpecker and a white horse query.
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