11 Jul 1865
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1865
Page
1
John L Holtzworth adds a full service shoemaking arm to his Boat and Shoe Store. He offers to manufacture work to order and perform repairs promptly. A note promotes Battlefield Views of Gettysburg at Excelsior Gallery TYSON & BRU as a holiday gift.
A damaged OCR fragment presents a devotional poem about nature and divine beauty. It mentions scenes of hills mountains rivers and forests, with light and shade, bees, birds, and a call to delight in creation. The text is garbled but preserves a general pastoral and spiritual tone.
A fragment from a 19th century page blends moral reflections on integrity and virtue with short, sentimental pieces. It includes advice on doing right over profit, a tender mother and child scene, a meditation on a kiss, a humorous anecdote about married life, and a quip about night photography, all framed in a reflective voice.
A Memphian widow known as Mrs. O engages Colonel Coleman in a war era debate aboard a river packet cabin, trading sharp retorts about arming backwoods forces and Yankee bayonets. Other anecdotes include a comic dentist scene, a stubborn Judge, and humorous tales of parrots and squirrels in a rowdy miscellany.
A Boston Christian Watchman correspondent visits Powers at Florence and notes Powers remains loyal to the Union despite patrons like Hugush. Dr Weld recalls a moment when an Englishwoman asked if Powers had ever sculpted Jefferson Davis. Powers replies he may in the future and jokes about English help in war. He likens political pressure to a heavy load uphill and English support as a danger when descending.
A Cleveland correspondent calling himself a Texan refugee asserts Gen Sam Houston died early in 1803 about two years after the rebellion began and due to a broken heart. He claims a mob sought to hang him for Union views, but neighbors delayed the attack, and Houston died a martyr to his country.
The piece describes Columbus as courteous and gentle with gray eyes and fair freckled skin, a religious yet nonformal demeanor, and a patient piety that framed his successes as Divine favor. It contrasts his well made frame with a modest diet and simple dress, presenting him as a Christian gentleman.
The Pension Bureau outlines rules for soldier pensions including rank effects, injuries, widow and minor child eligibility, and discharge status. It notes a prisoner of war punished, and a minor disabled retains rights. Abroad, reports discuss Grant’s Richmond evacuation and market shocks in Bombay, plus a robin attack on a cat, a Red Wing tornado, a Western belle, and a Yorkshire jockey in Calais with English-speaking residents.
A series of notes urges eradicating weeds to reduce garden labor and improve crops, recommending weekly weed checks and total clearance. Reports from Martinsburg indicate stock shortages easing, wheat plans rising, and many horses and mules arriving for sale. A May dispatch notes emigrant trains crossing plains safely with U.S. troops guarding routes. Also brief items mention a Newfoundland Bay pistol wound case and a North Carolina legislator’s death in a lunatic asylum.
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