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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1887
Page
6
The poem portrays the golden rod as fall’s farewell flower stronger than gentians, a bright fire on cold nights that lifts the weary earth. It calls the plant nature’s final gift before winter drapes the land in snow and furthers the seasonal transition.
A psychologist narrates a dream where Professor Da Vee is accused of murdering his wife after finding a bag of $3,000. Judge De Ford and a hostile prosecutor press for insanity while Da Vee protests his innocence. The dream ends with the death sentence, then reveals it was a nightmare.
The speaker recalls eleven o clock and claiming only seven minutes of sleep. He contemplates the soul’s partial release from its environment and the rapid, concentrated agony it endures, hinting at a future retribution described as five.
An old caution echoes in this line: do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The maxim frames moral bargaining, urging reciprocity in acts and decisions across communities.
Lieutenant Fegen of Turquoise engages Arab slavers off Pemba in a running sea fight. Seven slavers attempt boarding. Fegen and crew repel them, four wounded, nine killed. Dhow capsizes after pursuit. 53 slaves are rescued. Nine of the nine-strong slavers killed. two escapees later dead from wounds.
The report notes the death of Hadji Loja the Bosnian chieftain and Mus man fanatic who led guerrilla resistance against Austrian occupation in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Captured after a long struggle, he was imprisoned at Theresienstadt, had a foot amputated, then released on condition he not return. He later died in Mecca and remains a folk figure in Slavonic lore. Austria even names a popular confectionery Hadji Loja Wecken after him.
Dr Fanny Dickinson of Chicago becomes the first woman to be admitted as a member of the International Medic Congress in Washington. A modest six demure physician specializing in diseases of the eyes, she cites two other female oculists in the country, Dr Sargent of San Francisco and a Michigan woman, as peers.
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