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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1857
Page
1
Fragmentary notice reports a rough sale of melas ynos sugar and coffee with a low price. Mention of seller UL MINNIGU and a date June 29 appears, but text is garbled.
The excerpt blends The Village Graveyard by Rev. Greenwood with notices on privacy in marriage and a Lincoln era anecdote about Senator Butler. It includes commentary on seeking privacy in the home, a moral exhortation about vows, and a brief anecdote of survival at sea linked to Butler and an enslaved woman. The prose also cites a poet’s line about home and aging.
An oil worker named Barnes was buried alive when a sand filled well caved in. After days of concealment by a hedge he reappears and reveals he dug himself out by chance, surfacing in Holden’s lawn, far from the river Penobscot. The town accepts the odd tale with little further inquiry.
A satirical piece recalls a secret medical convention at Lewistown where clergy and lawyers dined at De Witt House. A minister quips that doctors visit ministers as physicians visit clergy, linking faith and medicine with biblical allusions and contemporary humor. Also recounted are colonial-era biblical references and a steer into unrelated puns and social chatter.
A humorous tale of a city man who moves to the countryside and plants corn with damaged New Orleans sausages as fertilizer. Dogs dig up the field, the crop fails, and neighbors joke about the auctioneer and the odd agricultural experiment.
A 19th century column derides pretended aristocracy arguing birth does not determine character and true nobility rests on conduct. It recounts runaway marriages harming families, warns against elopement, and emphasizes parental joy in a daughter's marriage. It also touches on theft nets in New York and societal mores, with satire on public figures.
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