28 Mar 1853
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1853
Page
1
A fragmented 19th century essay discusses women's influence and resilience in hardship, contrasting domestic strength with male decline. It includes anecdotes on untidy households, health woes, ungrateful relatives, and moral counsel, portraying women as sustainers of family amid adversity.
A manuscript journal from 1766 by Matthew Clarkson describes a Philadelphia merchants voyage westward to trade with the Mississippi region. The account details travels from Philadelphia to Fort Pitt, encounters with wagons and boats, early Pittsburgh naming, forts, and river trade with Indians for peltry and goods, including prices and cargo such as beaver and claret.
A letter to Missouri senators discusses a national highway from the Mississippi to the Atlantic via the central route favored by Fremont, with proposals for public and private funding and telegraph lines. The St Louis banking house scene recounts a bold bank robbery where about 16 cents in currency disappeared, a clerk distracted, no clues found, and authorities alerted.
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