17 Jan 1848
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1848
Page
1
A poem urging readers to aid the hungry and homeless, offering shelter, food, and comfort. It calls for sharing even when one has little, and to show kindness to the elderly, the grieving, and the lost, promising divine reward in Paradise.
A miscellany of anecdotes and notes: Gideon Lee’s ethical trade tale, Webster’s fame folly, Leap Year facts, fashion trends, love musings, and market oddities. Milk sold by animals in Mexico, railroad overnight bed swap, elephant mischief, and political quips mix with Milwakee growth and Bible Society stats, plus American apples in England and disaster losses.
A Providence Journal correspondent recounts Pat Tompkins as a Mississippi lawyer and rising statesman. Born in a log cabin near the Tennessee Kentucky line, he toiled as a farm boy then bricklayer and carpenter, educated himself, studied law, and became a prominent Mississippi bar member and anticipated congressman.
Correspondence from the Baltimore Sun notes wounded and mutilated officers in Mexico and highlights several named individuals including Gen. Quitman Col. Flarney Belknap Lieuts. Potter Sweeney and Geo M Lane. It mentions a private artilleryman with two limbs lost who receives eight dollars a month and urges Congress to grant relief.
Thomas notes French horse care where drivers avoid watering warm horses during journeys. They remove harness, walk and cool them, wash faces, rub down during feeding, then hydrate well before hitching. He calls this practice a model to save thousands of horses annually.
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