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Newspaper
Mitchell Capital
Location
Mitchell, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1886
Page
6
The poem ponders how time slides from summer to winter and back, with weary hearts sensing shadows and mortality. It contrasts fleeting joys with the ache for deeper knowledge and asks about real love, lasting happiness, and the silence of the dead as life’s harvest.
Ellen Doty, in mourning black, meets her old Massachusetts sweetheart Sydney Smith in a Western town. Years apart erase the past as he recalls a child’s penny for raisins that sparked a lifelong love, culminating in a Christmas wedding gift painting titled A Cent's Worth of Raisins.
A collage of comic verse and vignettes on women and society. It contrasts a talented amateur pianist with poor cooking, notes wedding customs in Abyssinia, and lampoons fashionable New York norms through humorous sketches and sly dialogue.
A Washington Gazette piece argues that mixed-blood unions trend toward darker skin over generations and asserts a recurring pattern where lighter offspring recede to darker complexions. It claims six to seven generations produce strikingly fair individuals, then revert to darker mulattoes, warning Creoles will resist marriage with any negro blood to maintain whiteness.
A meditation on bachelor life noting loneliness and illusion of freedom. It argues marriage aids in life battles, friendships fade, and a cheerful philosopher bachelor can still find happiness and stable paths toward a hopeful home.
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