27 Feb 1860
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1860
Page
1
Anonymous verse selections defy critics with praise from the Huntsville Journal. The editor frames the poems as tender lyric offerings about love memory and longing, including lines on dreams summer flowers and a farewell that echoes to distant memories.
A housekeeper seeks help from a sly hermit who gives a sealed box to improve her fortunes. She follows the ritual for a year, noticing small benefits in her household, only to discover the box contains a single couplet urging self inspection as the true remedy.
A rural preacher on a warm Sunday night teases escape from the law as a lamp wanes. He asks which way to gun the lamp and signals a misdirected deacon to turn to the right, producing a comic moment as the lamp flickers and dies.
A Lynchburg Harper's Magazine tale recounts Jim Be and Mike O Shangoessey in a comic mixup over a marriage license. Mike, fooled by lost documents and community gossip, races to wed, while Jim’s foibles spark further tall tale humor and local wit.
A nephew narrates a daring shipboard tale of diving for a gold watch lost at sea. The uncle challenges the tale asking for proof and concludes that if the Mayor asked to find the biggest liar in Philadelphia he would accept his nephew’s honesty.
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