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Newspaper

American Union

Location

Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Date

Oct 11, 1837

Page

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Vine American Union Advertisement Terms and Address

Printed and published by W C Mcauslen and L Harper. Vine American Union is published every Wednesday morning on the North East corner of Washington and Third street, in the room over John Orr's store. Subscription is two dollars per annum, three dollars half yearly, due at year end. Advertisements at usual rates. Letters to editors must be postpaid.

Vine American Union Washington and Third Street John Orr

Printing Shop Promises Finest Card and Job Work

Dob and Honey Card Printing offers a fine assortment of type and guarantees top quality card and job printing. The firm pledges to execute work with a style unmatched by any western office.

West

Where Shall I Find a Kindred Soul Anon By G Gay

A speaker seeks a kindred soul among crowds and pleasure in a poem. He rejects slander and callous faces, longs for sympathy, prays, and finds comfort in Jesus who heals his sorrows and offers faith and peace at dawn. The verse contrasts worldly brightness with spiritual solace.

Mart Jesus

My Mother's Voice Shapes a Silent Night Ride

A lyrical speaker recalls his mother’s voice as a guiding, healing force across lonely hours. He contrasts memories of maternal teaching with adult manhood, then returns to nature and a night scene where the voice and prayer illuminate a spiritual ascent toward heaven.

Bright World of Joy and Lovers in Cholera Loss

Poem by Robert Gilfillan titled Oh this were a bright world extols perpetual joy and cast of love. The piece imagines a flawless world without sorrow and decay. Nearby a cholera victim in Naples, M. Vignet, is noted as a Sardinian ambassador.

Robert Gilfillan

Composition and Harmony of Man in Nature and Divinity

The text discusses man as a link between animal and spiritual creation, detailing the material makeup of the body from iron to nitrogen, the proimate animal principles, and the unity of nature. It argues that harmony in nature shows divine omnipotence in the arrangement of organs and the connected chain from plants to humans.

Vision from Attila Dream Sparks Faith and Fear

In an Eastern Pennsylvania town celebrating Independence Day, Attila hears a vision declaring the need to sheath the sword and turn to God. A bold Rome-hermit Mizetus proclaims a Christian gospel to Attila and his chiefs, warning of divine judgment and Attila’s doom if he continues war.

Attila Rome Arderic Onegisus Ed Witout Ardernc Valamir Margus Mizetus Satan Peter Paul

Readers crave a paper fit for every taste in print

A writer compares a printer to a cook who must serve eight hundred readers with differing tastes. He imagines a paper shaped to please all subscribers, as vast as heaven, worth a pilgrimage to Mecca to glimpse.

Mecca

Parallel of the sexes in the North American

The North American contrasts male and female traits as an admirable division of qualities. It lauds man as strong and bold and woman as beautiful and diffident, noting differences in action and home life, taste and mercy, science and sensibility.

Suspicious payments spark French barber humor in era dialogue

A Boston Post clipping presents a humorous exchange where a Frenchman asks how the barber survives hard times. The barber replies modestly earning about a dollar daily, while the conversation notes attempts to support a large family, bread and butter, and finally references bank suspicions ending with the line about suspicious payments.

Nossin Dem Boston Post

Portrait of a Kentuckian on a North River steamboat

On a North River steamboat Mr Willismeter recounts meeting a Kentuckian drawn with imagination. The description covers his Herculean fist, curried hair, raccoon skin chain, Mississippi tailor coat, ruffled shirt, and black silk cravat. Despite an imposing look, his expression shows frank good nature and an Ajacean, trustworthy honesty.

Sychnuis Willismeter Mississipi

Liberty praised as the supreme earthly blessing

A solemn defense of liberty and its priceless value under tyranny. The author extols liberty as essential to life and happiness, arguing that without it all material honors fade to mere trappings and even bread and water gain meaning only through freedom. Slavery is shown as darkness that crushes intellect, industry, and virtue, driving people to seek relief in fleeting mirth.

Reminiscences and Oddities Across Nation’s News

A blended column recalls youth and spring as memory’s solace, then shifts to brief notices. Reports include a man dying after domestic intoxication at a wedding near Wheeling, a mother shot by her son in Indiana, a New York coal duty petition, and Mobile’s shin plaster anecdotes. Also noted: Charlotte Mint nearing operation, Sydney and Paris tones, and a chorus of political and social vignettes from 19th century presses.

Morris and Essex Morristown New Jersey Robert Vance Eckhart County Ind Sinclair New York Waterloo Ohio Congress Charlotte North Carolina

Comes Old Age Steals In Quietly, Time Fades Enjoyment

A brief reflective note on aging describes how old age advances with silent steps and erodes memories of pleasure, leaving only faint recollections behind.

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