17 Dec 1855
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 17, 1855
Page
1
A fragmentary narrative recounts a stern moral lecture about guarding speech, vision, touch, and the heart to avoid ruin. A child or teen is warned by a guardian to close doors on vice, bad books, and lewd desires, lest studies and virtue falter.
The cemetery grounds are enclosed with a neat palisade and gate, and new planting adorns the site. Work proceeds on pathways, borders, and iron enclosures, with plans for tasteful avenues, Osage orange hedges, and ornamental features to honor the deceased. Public support and prudent spending are urged as the project progresses toward completion.
The text argues women influence virtue and social conduct, praising female education while warning against excessive leisure and tavern life. It asserts men become selfish without women's guidance and stresses that respect and propriety arise from women’s presence and moral education.
A disjointed narration describes a young woman visiting an infirm elderly widow, asking about wealth and home life, then recounting a scene with a horse and a door incident. The piece includes unclear dialogue and speculative actions, leaving the outcome and motives unresolved.
OCR reads a chaotic scene in a transit setting where a flaxen boy waits in a vestibule, a letter addressed to his grandmother is deposited, and an older lady’s affection is glimpsed through stray lines about candy and kindness.
An excerpted village scene features a parson challenging a farmer, a servant named Bridget and dialogue about kinship, with a river accident and a quirky account of a butter cask found decades later. The text blends humor, local speech, and rustic misadventures across multiple intertwined anecdotes.
A long tale recounts a 19th century voting episode in Auglaize County Ohio where a German township produced one Whig vote amid a large Democratic turnout. An old Dutch judge ultimately accepted a Whig ballot as turned in by an independent voter, prompting editorials on preserving electoral purity.
In Mifflin County Pennsylvania a justice of the peace convicted several individuals for violating the Sunday law by keeping a subracite furnace in blast at Biting Graff and Co. The county court of common pleas reversed, warning that halting blast for twenty four hours weekly would ruin iron manufacture. the assembly’s Sabbath ban does not justify fines.
Professor Iren reports a smeies of ape and the Garrilla species near the Gambia river. Adults reach five foot five and three feet broad across the chest with a head twice a man’s size. They fear the Sorrille, which can descend from trees to attack and strangle, with enormous jaw strength and formidable canines.
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