14 Sep 1892
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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 14, 1892
Page
1
A garbled collection of maxims and quips on love life and society. It touches on marriage jealousy charity and virtue with scattered phrases about self knowledge and everyday misstatements. Names and coherent context are largely missing making the piece a collage of aphorisms.
A reflective piece recalls cherished family letters from a revered father and sainted mother. The narrator mourns a vanished romance, compares faded love to a withered blue rose, and closes as the supper bell signals departure from memories stored in a trunk.
The Roxboro Courier warns of an incurable malady named Tatling that affects all classes and ages. It reviews competing medical theories from envy to idle mind and liver imbalance, noting typhoid and small pox progress as reliefs while Tatling persists across society.
A reflective note extols a cherished scene of lovers and the idea of lasting bliss. The writer notes public curiosity from young maidens about the moment and location but remains silent to protect romance. The piece ends with a vow that love surpasses wealth and honors devotion above all else.
A devoted daughter who aids her aging mother with chores and sewing. Her quiet strength eases the mother’s burden and promises solace and a benediction of peace at the end.
The text urges readers not to gather imagined troubles or waste energy worrying about distant dangers. It compares overpreparation to leaping at a ditch that may not exist, advising restraint until a real obstacle lies directly ahead to avoid unnecessary effort and anxiety.
A reflective meditation on loss and remembrance noting how loved ones fade yet their light remains in memory. The speaker contrasts a mother father sister brother and friends with grief but affirms that their light shines beyond stars where darkness ends.
A reflective meditation on aging and memory. The text speaks of youth fading, the solace of home and friends, and the enduring harmony of the heart in advancing years. It emphasizes gratitude for shelter, companionship, and preserved holiness in the evening of life.
A vivid rustic scene shows a couple embracing at a front gate under a night sky. He vows protection as she leans on his shoulder with a glow in her eyes. She answers with a humorous, affectionate remark about sweet potatoes.
A bashful young man visits a beloved repeatedly asking to be her partner in joys and sorrows but cannot proceed. She shows compassion and hints that he should bring a screwdriver to "screw up his courage," leading him to finally win her.
A compact admonition urging parents to model good behavior for their children. It emphasizes controlling temper, avoiding gossip, permitting play and independence, telling the truth, and keeping promises including punishment. The message recalls that adults were once children and should treat their offspring as they wish to be treated.
A girl sat on her sweetheart’s hat to detain him for three hours. The man would have left earlier if his hat had not been in his lap instead of on the rack, preventing the delay.
A teacher and student riff on grammar with a pretend sentence about Adolphus marrying Caro line. The line humorously mislabels parts of speech and ends with a playful “And she do.”
An aged man reflects that ruin is driven more by pretense than poverty, describing the clash between a proud mind and an empty purse. He urges embracing poverty openly to deflate its sharp sting and reveal true dignity.
A reflective meditation on how sorrows may come as instruction, likening human experience to training birds to sing by gentle confinement and purposeful restraint. The piece invites consideration of inner growth through hardship and tempering one’s desires.
A verse contemplates same sex affection among maidens as a critique of wasted life energy when romantic attention shifts from men to women, contrasting chaste salutes with affectionate embraces and lamenting lost opportunities.
A fragment contemplates two individuals in a parlor scene, sharing a single chair with entwined arms and locked eyes, implying an intimate, surprising setup in a concise verse.
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