Local Gettysburg ad offers medical services and goods
An 1863 newspaper fragment advertises DRS CRESS and TAYLOR as physicians in Gettysburg, notes surgical experience in the U S Army, and lists offerings from medicines to groceries and tobacco. It also mentions the Children’s Aid Society visit and local shops selling hats boots shoes and clothing, urging calls and purchases.
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Cress & Taylor
Bolegimog Poysicians
Gendenon
Gettysburg
Nnal
Hausing
U.S Army
Uwehalsence
Wa. Tarun
Tad
Children's Aid Society
Aye. J. Palmer
Children’s Aid Society
Bellmore
Garden of the Soul at Home Poem Drift
A reflective verse extols home life as a shelter from toil and sorrow. It contrasts dark days with the comforting presence of kind words smiling faces loving embraces and reassuring affection awaiting at the door. The piece emphasizes gentleness family warmth and moral renewal.
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Ligia
Justus
Georle
Courteous Retort and Odd Tales from a Bygone Era
A local minister in Kaghiod is praised for years of gratuitous labor, preaching weekly on Sundays, until a priest proposes stopping him. The tale contrasts fearless oratory with comic replies about how to silence different authorities. The page also recounts Brittany hair markets, a grisly but humorous turkey prank, and other short vignettes including a Waltham anecdote and a remark on battlefield injuries versus hospital care. A train scene ends with a pun about a passenger’s breast protection.
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Kaghiod
Romantic Car Ride Reveals Brother Surprise Wedding
Nellie learns on a train that her supposed brother Fred has been courting a friend Archie Winters in disguise. The mix up ends with Nellie marrying Fred’s college chum Archie within two months, as Dora plans their joint wedding event alongside Fred.
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Prattorn
Fred
Dora
Vera
Nellie
Lewis
Mother
Tullo
Centleman
Sis
Archie Winters
Hue
Nell
Archie
Hersulf
Germans and Rebel Pranks at Nashville Hospital
A German confined in a Nashville hospital recounts a nursemaid siege of food parcels from rebel ladies. A white basket with wine and mince pies sparked mixed reactions among Union soldiers and locals, with another basket provoking a comical exchange in Yankee slang and a final tale of a Confederate humorist. The column also includes Mrs Partington on marriages, a bear incident, and a humorous note on courtship.
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Nashville
Union
Lish
Wine Bath and War Fever Echo in Paris and America
An American traveler recalls a Paris shop selling wine baths at low prices, contrasted with a sly local response. The piece shifts to a wartime political rallying cry urging unity with Lincoln, condemning Southern rebels, and a call to arms to defend the Union and restore liberty.
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Paris
Phew
Watsa
Massa
Dhar
Mevica
Champagne Life
Army Coffee and Camp Anecdotes From Civil War Dispatches
A New York Post correspondent recounts Army of the Potomac camp life including a coffee mishap where a soldier jokes the brew tastes off due to a piping mishap from his own pipe. A subsistence station accident fatality is noted with a humorous epitaph for Michael Farrell, and later moral quips and aphorisms conclude the piece.
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New York Post
Army of the Potomac
Gettysburo
Paris
John
Fabers
Aquia Road
Tere
Michael Farrell
Traitor Names at Baptism Stir Church Gate at Jalts Town
A father in Jalts town Baptist ceremony named his child Jefferson Davis provoking a reprimand from a pastor who refused to record the rebel name. Similar incidents follow at Petersburg Ohio where Rev Rinehart refused to christen another child Jefferson Davis. Calls arise to send traitors to Fort Lafayette after such acts as the war rages on.
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Jef. Davis
German Reformed Church
Ab Jaltstown
Fir “Baptist
Qonfedarany
Jyvbs
Chrisen
Jeffeson Davie
Ood
Mr B
Mr. Dubs
Benedict Arnold
Judas Learet
Beelzebub
Infauy
Thomas Jefferson
Andrew Jackson
Abraham Lincoln
Presbyterian Church
Petersburg
Ohio
Jeferon Davis
Rinehart
Fort Lafayette
PA. Press
Power of a Horse's Scent in Night Riding
The article extols a horse's acute sense of smell aiding night travel and advises letting the horse have a free head at night to stay on course. It recounts a story of a stolen horse recovered by scent, and shifts to praise for love of country, patriotism, and honest effort during wartime, warning against croaking about dishonesty and corruption.
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Petersburg
Nevro
Ee SettarTt
Three Great Words A Christian Traveller Tale
A traveller in Sevan reports a folio inscription found in inns and homes warning on the force of sacred words. The passage notes a Danish Mormon effort claiming about 1,000 converts and suggests the religion uses vanity as bait to gain followers, declaring it propaganda against the true faith.
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Sevan
Toderstand
Taghly
Gar
Denmark
Haring
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