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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1864
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text appears to describe a discussion of mergers or unions with scattered names and places. The readable portions mention institutions and individuals in a confused, ambiguous way, making a clear event or outcome uncertain.
An account of Sr Guthrie’s sermon at the opening of the Free Church in St Arathie Scotland. He argued that God is both a God of holiness and of taste, using the created order to prove his point and criticizing old notions about worship and reason. The piece includes lively anecdotes and reflections on divine beauty and proper reverence.
Jumbled snippets from a historical page weave sermons and sketches. A merchant lectures a youth about virtue and temperance while tales recount church gossip, a Maine Sabbath incident, and humorous street exchanges. Names and places blur as a miscellany of moral anecdotes unfolds.
A widowed mother Mies and her five children in Saul West faced winter neglect after she caught smallpox and went blind. Neighbors avoided them, and New Year’s Eve fire killed the woman and two children, while two others froze. The eldest daughter escaped but perished from exposure en route to a neighbor. The body was found naked. Also noted: the wedding of C Dodge of St Louis to Miss Sarah Brown in Jefferson City with a fatal bridal dress fire during the ceremony. A vaccination death near Warder & Stewart led to warnings on vaccine safety. Reports from Boston describe an attempted murder via poisoning and executions in prison. Fire devastates Camden and Auboy ralle depot, with several cars and supplies burned.
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