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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1851
Page
1
A tender meditation on aging and beauty as a lover speaks of time’s advance. The speaker notes the beloved’s fading charm and insists he would not trade present sorrow for youth’s past radiance, valuing affection over age’s loss. The poem ends with acceptance of change.
A reflective essay urges parental guidance to train children in moral law, citing King Solomon and Hamlet. It warns against neglect, stresses early effort, and contrasts noble restraint with foolish talk. Neighbors are urged to forbear, resolve quarrels, and practice civility. It also extols female fortitude and quiet courage in danger.
In Rock River region Illinois a horse thief scourge leads to a Rangers group forming to purge the district. They trap Burt inside his home takings his life and hang him on his own tree after a dawn rescue by his terrified family.
A long mishmash of domestic satire and antiquarian reflections recounts a man’s misdeeds at a party and the admonitory examples of elderly scholars embracing study. It contrasts comical domestic lapses with calls to pursue knowledge later in life, citing Socrates Cato Boccarte and others to argue age should not halt learning.
The Portland Arges recounts a comical scam where a man sought two cents to buy castor oil and drank it after being tricked, then a New Jersey Union joke shows a groom delaying marriage due to terrible rain as friends find him threshing in a barn.
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