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Newspaper
American Union
Location
Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1842
Page
1
Poem urging workers to seek moral clarity and temperance. It contrasts the folly of drunken revelry with the illumination of truth, urging the toilful to pursue noble deeds, love, peace, and the eternal cause, warning there is no wisdom or freedom in the bowl.
A reflective verses on twilight and sacred imagery. Soft night scenes near a rock and forest reveal religious feeling, angelic worship, and a longing for heaven as souls dream and rise toward divine light. The piece evokes quiet prayer, celestial beings, and music in ether as earthly beauty blends with spirituality.
A steamboat captain attends tea with a rosy widow and fashionable guests. Servants refill his cup covertly, leaving the tea to the dregs while the captain jokes he cannot drink more. He claims his tailor’s full and swears for a new tea head if he drinks again.
A quirky colonial anecdote tells how John Dudley of Deesfield rose to captain in the militia and boasted of friendship with Governor Wentworth. When the governor visits in a grand carriage, Dudley salutes in full regalia, only for Wentworth to jest that a pair of breeches would improve his uniform, leaving the captain both baffled and laughed at.
Emma C Embury presents Harry Eustace and Helen Hazelhurst in a tale of courtship tested by wealth and duty. Harry abandons study for commerce to marry Helen, while wealth grows and time reveals love corrupted by material gain. Helen remains pure but fragile, and Harry returns changed, facing a future where joy fades under gold’s shadow.
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