17 Jul 1855
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Newspaper
Delaware State Reporter
Location
Dover, Delaware, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1855
Page
1
A collection of 19th century business cards and ads from Philadelphia and Dover listings. Names include Aonrad Bakin, F Burton, Passe & Watson, Ritz Hendry & Co, Dickson, H McDowell, BeWley, and others. Items note manufacturing, real estate, general goods, safes, and legal notices through a mix of trades and services.
Poem fragment recalls a grave, a spring ambience, and a speaker mourning a lost beloved. Wooded scenes, blossoms, birdsong, and the refrain is Is in her grave Low in her grave. The speaker links early year music to personal grief and longing. Prior lines hint at a lover or muse referenced by name within a rural setting.
Evening reflections describe twilight fading day and stars in the west while a gentle wind calms a troubled heart. The speaker recalls departed friends, notes life’s fleeting pleasures and ills, and laments mortality as mortal beings pass from the world like clouds and stars fading before the sun.
A New York Herald correspondent in Brazil profiles a bustling household in Rossatuba on the Isle of Carmans. He details Angela the agile native beauty, her daring berry gathering by swinging from tall trees, hunting with a knife, and guiding others in canoe and turtle fishing while remarking on local Indians and notable quirks of daily life.
A narrator recalls a Rockaway summer with Tom Fairbanks. They discuss Flora Goodman and a missed engagement while smoking cigars. The tale reveals Flora’s rude handling of an elderly gentleman and the narrator’s suspicion that Tom’s reluctance to marry Flora stems from an unspoken defect.
Miriam and I discuss a doomed romance as a crippled former lover returns to claim the woman’s heart. The tale centers on pride, love, and a dramatic confrontation at the fireside, culminating in an offer of release from suffering and a plea for union.
The scene depicts a woman reaching her partner in an intimate embrace, tears inspiring a radiant, hopeful moment. Her hair parts as she prays, a bright brow framed by halos, while a whispered vow echoes that love is the dearest heartbeat of life.
The text outlines symbolic color meanings in early art and stained glass. White denotes light, purity, virtue, and faith. red stands for fire, Holy Spirit, and royalty. blue for heaven, truth, and fidelity. green for spring and immortality. violet for sorrow and martyrdom. black for earth darkness and death. It notes figures like Christ, Virgin, St. John, and St. Peter wearing color schemes to convey divine attributes and moral themes.
A garbled 19th century fragment describes a boy as mischievous spirit and teetotum, from infant mischief to adolescence. It portrays his antics with doors drums molasses and toys, noting growth into a studious, curious youth by ages twelve to twenty as he debates religion and science.
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