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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 05, 1888
Page
2
A poem celebrates spring as winter ends and love revives. The speaker recalls memory with Margaret, describes snowdrops, robins, and blooming trees, and vows renewed love as nature awakens. The piece blends seasonal imagery with a romantic plea and endures in a hopeful tone.
Ezra Newton’s careless spending clashes with Elizabeth’s thrift. She enforces cash purchases, trims waste, and saves steadily. Over a decade her disciplined habits grow a $6000 nest egg, enabling her to buy a corner house from Squire Bent. His surprise yields gratitude for her prudent self reliance.
The Providence Journal reports an alleged post arrest dinner by Dr. Webster in which he turned off the gas and mimed drawing a knife across his throat before restoring the lights and continuing the meal. The dramatic act astonished guests who then believed he had committed the Webster Parkman murder.
A rock weighing about forty tons sits on a hard rock table two miles west of Monticello. The sandstone formation carries countless pebbles and can be rocked by a child with no lever, a marvel in the valley as the only specimen of its class.
In Scranton a widow’s cherry trees are raided by unruly youths until a neighbor’s son shoots at a thief with a silent rifle. The boy is struck, screams, and the gang flees. The father threatens legal action, but no charges are filed and the raids stop. A Wyoming man uses a noiseless flower rifle on dogs troubling his garden, with similar silent results.
A colonial era editorial argues for enlisting Native Americans as soldiers and frontier guards. It urges ranching and stock raising on reservations, practical farming schools, and localized instruction to fit Indigenous skills and reduce depredations. It critiques Eastward training with impractical trades for Western Native life.
A Cape Ann letter reports a schooner H. B. Gr capt George Nelson towed by a monstrous whale off the Grand Banks on December 4. The whale dragged the vessel at high speed, breaking the anchor and dories, until the crew cut the line and regained control. Another note recalls a December 1574 incident with the Sultana where a whale towed a ship before releasing the anchor.
Charles A Janat from Wisconsin editors delivers a speech outlining journalistic ethics and maxims. He stresses credit for copied material, no printing paid advertising without consent, and avoiding personal attacks unless justified. He urges readers to seek truth and support progress.
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