Sheriff’s sales of lands in Adams County Pennsylvania
Writs of venditioni exponia issued by the Court of Common Pleas expose various tracts in Adams County to public sale at Gettysburg Court House on August 6. Properties include a 97 acre Hamiltonban Township land with dwelling and orchard, 77 acre woodland in Franklin Township, multiple mountain land tracts in Franklin and Butler townships, a 84 acre Butler County area with improvements, a half lot in Gettysburg, and a 16 perch East Berlin lot with a foundry shop, engine house, and fixtures. Also notices include sale of Solomon Border and Josiah Ross property and a sale warning about sheriff’s return conditions. July 11 1858.
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Iisesllangons A Dear Little Baby
A tender meditation on babies and motherhood portrays a child’s early milestones from smiles and first words to crawling and mischief. The article extols a mother’s devotion, a father’s daily return, and the sanctity of parental love amid everyday challenges.
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Humorous Tales and Witty Anecdotes From an Old Ledger
A long humorous miscellany of dialogues and misread lines. Servants, clergymen, and travelers appear in snippets of banter, mispronunciations, and comic misunderstandings. Pithy jests about pigs, coughs, weddings, and town gossip mix with archaic phrasing and playful unbelief.
The Faith That Saves Us from a Highland Gorge
In a Scottish highland gorge a boy faces a perilous rope descent to harvest rare flowers. His father’s trust and the scene’s nature echo a moral about faith, salvation, and the soul’s journey toward immortality as seasons and death loom.
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Washing the Head For Health Opinion From Norfolk Herald
The Norfolk Herald reports a doctor and Quarantine authorities endorsing daily head washing as a life saving habit. A seventy year old man claims weekly washing keeps him free from typhus fever and severe colds, despite an 1855 epidemic, underscoring the practice’s supposed protective effect.
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Odor Removal Using Ammonia Compound
A nineteenth century note explains perspiration odor affects both men and women of all colors. It recommends a simple, inexpensive remedy using compound spirits of ammonia placed near a water basin. Wash face hands and arms to refresh the skin and reduce sweat odor.
Odd Courtroom Quips Mix With Romantic Folklore
The fragmentary OCR text blends court scene notes with moral musings and a brusque aphorism about patience and punishment. It mentions an IEPA doctor detained in court, a witness challenging a judge, and a proverb about baking bread and a stone, plus a cryptic remark on a suitor and his would be father. It also hints at a harsh view of conscience and a labor claim about Mr Bothetan working eight tons in twenty four hours.
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Simple cure for cholera infantum published by Nationalotelligenver
An item claims a home remedy for cholera infantum and related digestive illnesses. It describes mixing pulverized cloven one fourth ounce cinnamon gum resin and a small amount of whisky with bread for adults and a child proportion, promising rapid relief within an hour. The text touts longstanding personal experience and denounces conventional physicians.
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How the Mails Are Carried in Wisconsin by Judges
A Hudson Wisconsin correspondent describes mail routes to Superior and Bayfield. Couriers, many half breeds, carry heavy loads up to fifty miles daily year round. A single porter weighs about 160 pounds carrying a whisky barrel up steep hills. The Wisconsin judge visits Superior and Bayfield twice yearly, traversing long distances, rivers, and swamps while dodging rivers, mosquitos, and Indians, bearing the burden of law.
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Court sentences slave to be hung in Virginia
A slave named David in Richmond County Virginia was found guilty of felony and sentenced to be hanged on the 22d of July after a trial that unsettled the court. The vote split three for transportation and two for hanging, causing anger and confusion in the courthouse before the justice corrected the count.
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A Lucky Pastor Ten Year Anniversary Sermon
Rev. J. AL Benton of First Church Sacramento marked his tenth anniversary with a sermon at Silent Tune. He then toured to Atlantic States and planned a return to Sacramento after further esteem from local communities. The Pacific notes testimonials and gifts totaling many dollars from parishioners. San Francisco’s growth cited with 1860s population breakdowns.
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Debts of the States and Ohio Civil Rights Ruling
The article reviews state debts payable locations and schedules, noting Virginia and New England funds, Maryland London payments, and defaults in several states. It also reports Ohio Supreme Court ruling by Judge Foote on the so called white law, determining a colored tailor Freeman Sb Morris legally white with one fourth black blood.
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Austrian Detachment Captured by Railway Engineer
Report from wartime Paris notes lighthearted capture of Austrian troops en route to reinforce Urban. The engineer diverted the detachment into the allied camp and French soldiers guided them off the train with polite jokes. Also included are scattered notes on European population figures and a mining accident near Wesley City Illinois where a worker survived a cave-in.
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