20 Oct 1860
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Newspaper
Shepherdstown Register
Location
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1860
Page
1
A reflective verse sequence contrasts a grave flower on a beloved's grave with the decay of nature and a call to remember mortality. It critiques worldly vanity, extols divine faith, and laments man’s heedless life amid autumnal imagery and social fashions.
A Cleveland Herald correspondent recounts a romance aboard the steamer Ocean on Lake Erie. An Allegheny girl traveling with her brothers is wooed by a Westward bound rescuer robbed in Cleveland. He proposes. the couple seeks a minister or justice of the peace on board, while a veteran York man claims officiant duties.
A scrambled Titanic mix of Civil War era items reports on a chaotic New York Prince's Ball with floor collapse and delayed dances, a Norfolk Virginia insurrection scare, and various vivid anecdotes from daily life, politics, and travels across the era.
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