15 Mar 1864
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1864
Page
1
A fragmented notice references Internal Revenue taxes and local collection actions. It mentions payments due, penalties for nonpayment, and a borough or district collection effort with dates and names of involved entities, including references to officials and local streets. The text also lists various goods and services and hints at enforcement steps by authorities.
A lengthy public sale notice outlines the expected auction of real estate and associated assets including vessels, furniture, and miscellaneous items. The document lists multiple parties, locations, and terms, with references to dates, locations, and participating firms, indicating a comprehensive estate liquidation.
A garbled eyewitness account hints at a theater mishap and nearby calamities including a fire, a choking confusion, and a distressed mother with a child. The narrative mentions staging, audience, and a tense atmosphere with unclear names and locations.
A garbled reminiscence describes a soldier leaving hospital and tasting sweets from a jar, a nurse’s tale of a sanitary mission, and a local district amid military upheaval. It mentions an English surgeon and Second Corps, with scattered names and mid conflict references.
A fragmentary satire blends jokes about a comedian reader and a rowdy audience with a long digressive anecdote. It weaves between a prank on a priestly figure, medical scene shadows, and a blustery street scene in New York. The voice shifts through接 playful quips on aging and wit.
A scatter of dramatic fragments recounts a stage troupe struggling to stage an elephant number with misadventures, delays, and hazards. Interwoven are sketches of rescue efforts, audience reactions, and a comic misfire as the elephant becomes a fiasco amid crosstalk and onlookers. Included are brief ironies about travel shows and a digression on Alexander Dumas and a humorous hotel scene abroad.
A fragmentary dialogue describes courting customs and matrimonial vows in a bygone era. The text presents archaic speech about patience and betrothal, with characters urging restraint and accepting fate in love.
An aging nobleman observes a ragged goat in his gardener's care and laments modern daubery replacing fine Old-World craft. The elderly servant replies with quiet wit, noting value beyond money as talk turns to virtue, memory, and tradition.
A New York visitor in Wheeling sits in a barber chair and orders a trim. The barber clips hair repeatedly while the man sleeps, leaving him nearly bald when he wakes. The client curses, and the barber, shocked, regrets the unintended injury.
A fragment from a Civil War era piece contrasts war’s ruin with wildlife reclaiming abandoned spaces in Ten nesees. It then reports the death of Philip Moore near Monroe Fayette county, aged about 105, killed by a fire in his cabin as he slept, amid commentary on slavery and freedom.
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