Sky Light Ambrology Studio Advertises Portraits in Gettysburg
Samuel Weaver announces a new sky light ambrography room on West Middle Street offering ambro, melaino, enamel, and photograph pictures in various styles with guaranteed satisfaction. He also operates a room on Chambersburg Street with reduced prices, copying portraits from old specimens and producing ambrotypes from one dollar upward. Hours are 8 AM to 4 PM, with low prices on gold lockets and breastpins, and a note that children will not be taken for less than one hundred dollars. May 3. Samuel Weaver. Also includes a bank statement for the Bank of Gettysburg dated Aug. 5, 1852 with cashier T. D. Carson affirming accuracy.
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Allegorical Defence Ends with Tearful Not Guilty Verdict
A juror witnessing an elaborate defence hears a Godly allegory about mercy and truth guiding mankind. The jury, moved to tears by the courtroom moment, returns a verdict of not guilty amid reflections on orders and moral duty. The piece shifts through vignettes of conscience, orders not to break them, and a preacher’s sermon about theft of words.
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Bridget on Temperance in a Local Dialogue
A fragmentary dialogue portrays Bridget resisting whisky despite temptations to break a pledge. Jemmy urges making a punch with sugar and whisky while cautioning about health and temperance, with noisy banter about secrecy and temptation.
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A Dutch Judge and a Not Guilty Verdict in Odd Tale
A column piece sketches a chaotic scene where a judge berates a jury with garbled speech and ridiculous courtroom theatrics. Amid jokes and misread phrases, a defendant is acquitted on a quirked condition while the narrator recounts various odd vignettes of town life and sly puns.
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Household Chaos and a Cow in the Thatched Loft
A rustic tale recounts a jealous husband who minds the house and bungles haymaking. He churns butter, waters a cow on the thatch, and drags a pig into the churn causing a chaotic sequence ending with the wife discovering him in the porridge pot. A miscellany of anecdotes and old moral sketches follow, including biblical quips and a misread scene at Girard College.
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Giant canal proposal to shorten Mediterranean trade routes
A vast project proposes a 285 mile canal through northern Spain from Bilbao to the Mediterranean, 84 feet wide and 30 feet deep, enabling shortened shipping routes to Northern Europe. Government backing is likely, with toll revenue and extensive capital needs. The plan aims to transfer substantial traffic and reduce voyage lengths.
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Funeral of a Siberian Chief Described by Mr Atkinson
Atkinson delivered a London Royal Historical Society talk on A Narrative of some Adventures among Kirgiz tribes Then an account followed of the funeral of chief Datms Syrzm near Norziisio Drove by camels the bier and state chair borne in ritual. The body lay in state while a feast for 2000 attended for seven days with 1000 sheep slaughtered. chants and mourning filled the encampment.
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Death and courage amid dying and moral notes
An assortment of short observations on death’s approach, a few historic quotes about acceptance, and practical health advice for drowning and fever. It mentions Montaigne, Hunter, and a Quarterly Review anecdote, plus Saratoga visitors and Mogadore rebellion as brief items.
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