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Newspaper
Wilson Mirror
Location
Wilson, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1891
Page
6
A fragmentary reflection on humanity’s kinship with the earth and nature. Edgar Fawcett evokes robust oaks, willows, and ferns as sources of fortitude and frailty, linking dawns to pure deeds and moonlight to sorrow in a poetic meditation on being woven into the planet’s fabric.
A physician narrator recalls a pale impoverished mother Mrs Trevor and daughter Helen facing poverty due to unpaid debts. Helen reveals her struggle and pride, a rich heiress Dora Copperfield’s vanity spurs a class awakening, and charity arrives as Floy Garrison and Philip Everett reunite lovers.
Professor G W Turner of Ash Grove Missouri claims a silver medal dating back over 350 years and linked to explorer De Soto. The two inch piece bears the Last Supper and the crucifixion on opposite sides and may have been worn by De Soto during his campaigns with Cortez and Pizarro. Found by a colored man in a field near Ash Grove while plowing, it was located near a cold spring. The article notes De Soto and his followers possibly camped near the area before his 1542 death in the Mississippi River region.
A collage of humorous snippets and quips from various cartoonish columns and letters. Jests range from punny exchanges about money and luck to domestic gaffes and misadventures, featuring playful barbs at editors and readers alike.
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