29 Aug 1860
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1860
Page
1
A fragmented historic snippet recalls The Ladies' Store opening amid snow and storm. It mingles fashion notes with a grave vigil, describing a mother at a grave, a child’s death, and a family’s sorrowful farewell marked by a night wind and a distant light.
Rev Dr Spursa of New York delivered a sermon during his fiftieth anniversary week and urged that nothing truly vanishes for good the influence of people, Sabbath, weeks and years outlives time. The piece contrasts past with present and future as parts of eternity. A boy’s balloon ascent dream and a Baptist Board note follow, illustrating memory and exhortation across religious life.
A New York Times correspondent recounts a comic misidentity at the National Hotel in Washington, as a stranger mistakes General Cass for Senator Gray and feigns a bold tale, prompting a humorous exchange. The piece then shifts to jokes on travel and a partisan minister’s prayer, ending with a string of anecdotes on race, manners, and census tax talk.
A moral essay extols a wife's influence on domestic happiness through prudent spending and orderly home life. It contrasts affection with rousing care for trifles, then shifts to the Palermo anecdote of Lynacia Riso, who led Garibaldi’s column against Bourbons, earning reverence and fame.
A Western New York dairy worker urges skim milk at the moment cream rises to the surface to preserve quality and warns against letting milk stand. Philadelphia Ledger correspondent describes a Cape May bathing scene with 600 to 800 bathers in ideal conditions and a hymn recited during a protracted meeting led by Rev. Henry Ward Beecher.
A passerby named Munger was attacked while crossing a field by a swarm that surrounded him both front and back. He fought back with his fists but was overwhelmed and nearly died before a man named Decker arrived. The bees then attacked a favorite shepherd dog, killing many were injured, while Munger and Decker lay seriously hurt for several hours but recovered.
A garbled colonial era column quotes Parson Brownlow denying a Democratic shift while satirically noting absurd scenarios. It blends politics with anecdotes about a Greene County natural phenomenon the Tidal Spring, and a scattered portrait of social life, music making, and naval and agricultural notes in a collage of 19th century newspaper text.
Fragments recount Uncle Claiborne’s perilous adventures with a famed elephant called Columbus. The tale blends peril, rescues by physicians, and Claiborne’s vow to remain teetotal until his hundredth birthday, as published in a local dispatch.
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