29 Jan 1867
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1867
Page
1
A scrambled ad page from Gettysburg lists Swan’s Grocery offering sugars, syrups, cigars, and groceries. Carriage makers, Gulp and Earnshaw, announce wagons and repairs. A Baltimore freight service advertises grain, flour, and freight cars. Adams County shopkeepers invite customers to inspect Saddle Shop and fabric goods.
An OCR fragment presents garbled lines referencing names and events in a lyrical style. It evokes memories of past ages with phrases about love, Cupid, and shared songs. The text blends unclear proper nouns and poetic imagery without a clear single event or date.
A damaged OCR fragment presents a verse about the passage of time and the fading of life. It mentions leaves, flowers, light, and hearth, expressing loss and remembrance as time passes and those who pursued love or fate have lived and are gone.
A long, garbled meditation on generation, mortality, and memory framed as warnings and maxims. It weaves poetic reflections on the world’s constancy, the fading of individuals, and the enduring presence of virtues and secrets, ending with a list of ethical maxims and admonitions.
Two chatwing women debated beauty in hands while a male guest offered the Paris goddess analogy. He finally concedes the answer lies with charity, declaring the most beautiful hand is the hand that gives, like the sun’s unasked warmth.
A fragmented review of aging, youth, and the value of youth’s brief season, contrasting beauty with moral sorrow, followed by a lengthy discussion of marriage as a social contract. It includes references to Jewish divorce procedures, religious comfort, and a New York-Boston correspondence note about a merchant’s failed business and a grand hotel project in St Paul.
A Detroit Union tale recounts James Weary M Gragor a Scotch arrival from 1860 who left the army after five months in 1862 and changed his name to James Henry fleeing to Ohio His wife learned the truth after his death and a lawyer doubts she can claim his estate which would revert to the crown of England plus a humorous set of local anecdotes about Charley Rumsey and other light items
From the Missouri Democrat a chaotic tale recounts two women visiting Dr Wayne's dental works. One leaves without paying, tries to take a tooth home, but a pursuer named George Arnold drums down stairs and through streets chasing the fleeing debtor until she surrenders the money. This vignette sits among broader humor items and anecdotes.
An unnamed couple, Mr and Mrs Palms, rented a city boarding house but vanished after the first week. The wife, left penniless and distressed, received help from sympathetic boarders and a young man who funded her wardrobe and offered companionship. The couple later left by the southern railroad, likely to repeat the deception elsewhere.
A fragment notes Prof Tyndalls ice dissection with an electric beam, revealing star flower crystal structures and the beauty of frozen matter. The piece blends aphorisms, a Denver runaways tale, Berlin cigar society, frost limp relief, and a Dutch disaster anecdote, all in a breezy 19th century miscellany style.
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