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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1849
Page
1
The piece urges boys and girls to avoid lies of any kind and to own mistakes openly. It contrasts cowardly deceit with courageous truth telling, praising honesty as superior to concealment and noting truth’s ease and eventual discovery.
The Portland Mirror reports large fossil remains unearthed on a Vermont mountain. A tusk measures 6 feet 7 inches and weighs 36 pounds with another tooth at 7 pounds. Remains lie eight to ten feet under surface, suggestive of a prehistoric animal and probable flood-era origin.
A New York Spirit of the Times piece narrates a village rag mill scene where a worker chews rags to make paper. The humorous dialogue shows wages, work, and a failed blanket starter, ending with the chewer quitting to avoid pay issues and a Western editor’s remark on mad dogs and regular readers.
Death of Thos Williams a distinguished Iroquois chief from the Revolution era and later linked to the War of 1812 is reported in Milwaukee. The column also retells a sea tale and humorous snippets, and surveys U S coal, population growth, and Western river disasters with steamboat losses and insurance figures.
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