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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1893
Page
7
The piece presents a playful verse frame where a lover asks what he would do if his sweetheart grew near yet distance remained an obstacle. It imitates Eugene Field style with quoted prompts about daring advances and restraint.
In the Blue Ridge region, a moonshiner held a hidden cave still beneath a cabin. Detectives traced contraband to a remote cavern with a concealed chimney and underground ducts. The aged man, identified as Reuben Davis, received a five year sentence for his covert operation, but did not serve the full term.
The article describes Japanese drought rituals to summon rain. It notes parched rice fields and wells drying up, prompting large processions of nearly naked men with sun and rain emblems, prayers, and water offerings. Night rituals involve a boat crossing the harbor with drumbeat prayers.
A collage of marvels and mishaps from 19th century notes. A Florida sponge rumor ties to a two headed pig in North Carolina while a Cincinnati woman nears 92 and grows four new teeth. Tales range from a three headed cat to a lamb with extra eyes and legs, a horse in a well rescue, and a sparrow's watery death in London.
A party at Poonarhyn-Anglice Garden of Flowers traps crocodiles in a shallow tan k using nets and poles but the reptiles retreat into deep mud. The eager hunters gain only thirst as the cunning animals vanish beneath the surface, per Westminster Gazette.
Calcutta firm Autagenious Clock unveils a remarkable eight day clock featuring a large gong for hours and eight bells for quarters. A perpetual calendar covers days including February’s twenty nine. The dial houses a marching military procession with army branches, a sentry, drummer and bugler, a concealed band, and hourly curtain reveal. Case is ebony mahogany, 6 feet high with brass trimmings and enameled dial center. New York Despatches.
A gavel once used by a president at the cornerstone laying of the Capitol a century ago is claimed to belong to the Potomac Lodge of Masons in Georgetown. The ivory marble artifact, about eight inches long and slightly yellowish, sits in a Washington bank vault and can be removed only by lodge order.
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