08 Mar 1847
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 08, 1847
Page
1
The writer surveys Warwick Castle and Kenilworth, noting their ancient royally linked grandeur now faded to decay. He compares Kenilworth with Windsor and Dover, laments neglect, and comments on English pronunciation and class speech, contrasting it with American speech and education.
An elderly narrator and his son walk home on a Sunday as church bells ring. A poor man collapses in the street and members of multiple faiths each aid him. The father explains this is what men were made to agree in.
The New York Express paints a grim portrait of Dr Heidelberg, a scholar and former Berlin and Halle professor, now among three thousand inmates at the New York City Almshouse. Once a preacher and author, he is described as a rationalist and bitter critic of Christianity, destitute after alleged intemperance and impoverishment.
A miscellany lists long and short days in European cities with notes on Arctic lengths, then catalogs animal lifespans from bear to whale. It recounts anecdotes of small scams in markets, a ball prank with gunpowder ending in explosion, and brief glimpses of Irish charity and social wit.
The Philadelphia Recorder recounts a sailor in New York who dresses in full sea rig and hides tracts in his pocket to bait light fingered thieves in parks. The piece also notes a wedding game that paired eleven couples and a cannon model built from sectional plates by Jesse Fitzgerald.
The Poughkeepsie Telegraph recounts a clash between a Whig and a Lacofoco over Tariff and protection. The exchange centers on who benefits from factory investment and wages, with the Lacofoco denying protection helps rich manufacturers and preferring no new factories, while the Whig argues money circulates to workers, merchants, and farmers.
The article surveys seventeenth to nineteenth century conflicts with Algiers and Mexico as benchmarks. It notes France’s costly hold on Algiers, compares conquest time and expense to U S ambitions, discusses political leaders, then shifts to remarks on European progress, hunger relief donations, and curious anecdotes about telegraph speculators and a German Irish famine colony. It closes with a tall tale about a remarkably prolific man and a schoolmaster anecdote.
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