Ambrotype Room and Portrait Services Advertised in Gettysburg
Samuel Weaver promotes ambrotype and portrait services at West Middle Street and Chambersburg Street, offering ambrotypes, melaino, enamel, and portrait pictures with reduced prices and various keepsake options. J L Schick advertises fall and winter goods in Gettysburg, highlighting French merinoes, silks, laces, linens, and gentlemen's wear, inviting continued patronage.
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Buehler
Drug & Book Store
Chimbarybure Street
Chaims
Washington, DC
Iowa
Winois
Gettysburg
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Nestock’s
Danner and Ziegler’s
Baltimore Street
J.C. Neely
Ofhee
Falnestock’s
J. Thorne Clarkson
Portland
Chicago
Minnais
DR .Ganehe
Chambersburg
B. Picking
A. Mathias
Tueab Newse
Joe Gen Lo Waipict
Keg
Ray
Thomas Bowen
Qet
Sunbeam Gallery
Pawe
Gettyshire
West Middle Street
Fihnestock
Chambersburg Street
Bringman & Calp
Samuel Weaver
Mose
J. L. Schick
W. Corner
Locust trees and chestnuts for farms and fences
Readers discuss practical farming tips from Adams County on improving fences with locust posts and chestnut rails. An older Cumberland County example notes a locust post preserved by upper-end-down planting and charring. A parent laments schooling methods while urging practical child training at home.
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Adams County
Cumberland County
Stop That Peeping
Warning against peering into neighbors affairs praising privacy and cautioning about misinterpretations. A Yankee editor remarks on recording deaths for pay and the unfairness of free panegyrics for the dead.
The Heart and Self Knowledge
A reflective essay urges facing the truth of the heart, warning that the heart is deceitful and wicked yet promising insight if one dares to know themselves. The piece contends inner revelation preserves the spirit and prevents a midnight of despair.
Advice Through the Keyhole Shoemaker Turns to Medicine
A young shoemaker who talked away his days and toiled late at night experiences a boy’s taunt at a keyhole. He takes it as a divine warning to stop delaying work and to abandon idle chatter. He reforms, works during proper hours, and eventually becomes a respected physician.
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Society of Loafers
Sap
Portland Argus
Chickaing
Moore
High Street
Asg
England
Sebastopol
Sebastopel
Inkermann
Courier
Extraordinary ages puzzle and social vignettes
A collection of curious anecdotes and social quips. It cites six married ladies with a total of 120 five years and daughters older than their mothers by seven years and a half. The piece also notes elopement dramas and sharp regional humor.
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Rotheram
Dutch Geese Alarm a Yankee in the Country
A Dutchman recalls how his geese chased a frightened Yankee who once tossed corn with a fish hook hidden inside. The feisty birds never returned, leaving the man to flee up the road. A curious cautionary tale about deceit and aversion.
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Martin van Buren
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Four Good Habits and Quips on Manners and Mosquitoes
The piece lists four essential habits punctuality accuracy steadiness and dispatch for managing time and avoiding errors. It quotes observations on love elevating women toward noble men and notes humorous asides about mosquitoes and obituaries. It includes social witticisms and travel tips with light editorial jests.
Romance and Reality From a Wealthy State Family
A narrator recalls a once prosperous marriage between a young state noble and a well connected bride whose lavish lifestyle collapsed lives as her husband, a cautious provider, ends up demoted to selling goods door to door. The tale contrasts fashionable education with practical earners through a dramatic fall.
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Commonwealth
Kentucky Faces the Union Crisis and Constitution
A Kentucky perspective on the Union crisis poetry states devotion to the Constitution. The message defends federal union and domestic regulation by states, urging steadfast support for the Constitution and the gallant founders while warning against dissolution.
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Kentucky
Unigh
Congress
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