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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1893
Page
6
The British government employs more women than any other government. In Switzerland the telegraph and telephone networks are government owned and operated, with 1,411 telegraph offices and 12,595 telephone offices. Their profits exceed $250,000 yearly.
The text highlights Mrs. Mary Frost Ormsby as a leading peace movement agitator who promotes abolishing military schools. It notes her remark about the 1891 Italy peace congress where Germans were seen as eager for peace. It also describes the peace flag as stars and stripes with a white band.
J Stewart Wallace, Home Rule member of the British Parliament recently in Chicago for the World's Fair, told a New York reporter before suing for home that he was pleased with his visit. He added that England needs more American progress and America needs more English conservatism, a view the Chicago Herald says neatly measures the situation.
The government has bought many Indian reservations for settlement but reports a case where the Osage tribe rejects selling their property. Every adult Osage male holds about $15,000 in cash and owns several hundred acres, yet they refuse to sell to the United States commissioners at any price.
The article estimates 100000 Chinese and 100000 white opium users in the United States with average consumption of half a pound per month. Opium costs seven fifty a pound in Victoria and duty is ten dollars, yet street price is eleven fifty. If only a quarter pound monthly per user is assumed, imports would reach about fifty thousand pounds monthly, yielding four dollars profit per pound and highlighting smuggling scale.
In Minnesota, the Supreme Court reverses a lower injunction against a boycott by the Northwestern Lumbermen's Association. It holds a member firm may decline dealing with others if not under contract, upholding freedom to select business partners and reject transactions.
A fragmented account of the reptile house at the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens describes boa constrictors feeding habits and digestion, venomous rattlers, water moccasins, and the curious Yellow Tailed Rat Snake. It notes cold blooded metabolism, food abstinence periods, and notable pairings among venomous species.
Poem evokes perfect afternoon with sunlit pines and pine woods. The speaker marvels at singing thrushes and a loch’s rippling waters, asking what has come over nature to create such bliss. A throstle on a high branch joins a fresh, inward song.
A cryptic fragment describes watching a figure recede toward a cabin and vanish, while the speaker, signed as iF rank Leslie, reflects in a meditative mood. The brief text hints at disappearance and contemplation without clear setting or context.
A correspondent describes a morning scene in a small garden where a young blackbird is attacked by a cat. The old bird defends the youngster while the other birds react with sympathetic cackling. The cat retreats as the young bird escapes and the old one rises, prompting a jubilant chorus from onlookers.
A fragment describes mud traces on black goods caused by rough handling and a piece of raw potst. The text is incomplete and lacks clear attribution or context to identify the items, event, or responsible parties.
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