Grocery Store on the Hill in Gettysburg
Local notice announces J. M. Rowe’s move to the old Hull stand on Baltimore Street in Gettysburg offering groceries, flour, and hardware at low prices. Public patronage sought with fair trade and exchange for country produce. Also promotes a separate store display of staves, wares, and house furnishings, plus a claim agency listing for government claims and bounties.
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Gettysburg
Hull
Baltimore Street
Teyim
J. M. Rowe
Baltimore
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J. H. Bosley
North Street
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Court of Claims
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Memory and Nostalgia Amidst 19th Century Advertisements
A collage of verse about memory by G. McCreary followed by dated notices and crowded advertisements. The page includes an 1863 Gettysburg tribute, then mid-century classifieds for coats, stationery, groceries, silks, and shawls, with local shop names and prices.
Refreshing Fountain by the Wayside Inspires Charity
A newspaper piece recounts Mr. Sawyer opening a refreshing fountain at a roadside spot. The act, done openly to aid travelers and animals, illustrates selfless virtue and Christian ideals of integrity gratitude and forgiveness, teaching that good deeds benefit unseen by many yet known to God.
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Mr. Sawyer
Robert Harmer
Sawyer
Motivation to Study and Self-Improvement for Youth
A stern exhortation urges a young man to rise, take a book, and study. It emphasizes time value, daily one hour of reading, and steady effort as paths to success despite adversity. The writer cites famous achievers who started as boys and stresses perseverance and deliberate self-improvement.
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Jose
Mort
Providentially Directed at a Methodist Conference
At a late Methodist Conference a beautiful young woman attracted many gazes. One by one four men privately told the presiding elder they felt the Lord intended each to marry her. The elder, puzzled, exclaimed that it is impossible for four men to marry the same woman.
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Ife
Smoking and Swearing Exchange Between Doctor and Lawson
A humor column recounts Dr. Lawson feigning cure advice to a physician who swears, noting Lawson blames the other man’s habit of profane swearing. Lawson retorts that his own habit is expensive when the bill is presented to him.
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Lawson
T Lawson
Dr. Lawson
Murfreeaboro
Richmond Whig
See the Show a Fearful Microscope Display
A Scottish farmer and his wife visit a microscope exhibit in Kilmarnock. Janet grows frightened as water-dwelling creatures enlarge to twelve feet, crying to flee while her husband urges her to stay and watch the creatures fight.
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Galston
Kilmarnock
Janet
John
A Safe Place and a Woman’s Resolve in War Tale
A dialogue between two army officers jokes about safe places during battles on the Peninsula and McClellan's staff. The narrator notes a stubborn woman who never admits defeat. A church scene shows worshippers failing to notice their hands during prayer while the contribution box passes.
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Army of the Potonine
Peninsula
McClellan
Waterloy
Ber
Comical English Innb hacing Spurs and Parson Brownlow Anecdotes
A cluster of short Victorian style items with humorous misadventures. An English tavern prank ends with a Scotsman, Irishman, and Paddy in a bed as a spur prank leads to comic injury and confusion. Parson Brownlow greeted in Grand Rapids misidentification by a pill agent triggers hotel drama. An Maryland draft tale follows Billy Bray the jackass drafted after mistaken identity. A blackface dialogue ends in a quip about fighting and life’s constant struggles.
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England
Chester
Red Vox
Paddy
Donald
Scotebuan
Parson Brownlow
Grand Rapids
Michigan
Detroit
Uollaway
Vommtes
Harper
Maryland
Salisbury
Nami
Billy Bray
Jie
Billy
Time to Prune Trees and Practical Timber Cuts
A collection of aphorisms and anecdotes on trees and pruning seasons, plus notes on timber cutting timing and old stock wisdom. Suggestions favor March pruning, winter work, and observing fashion and cleanliness in domestic life.
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van Beck
Boston
New Postage Law changes rules on mail and delivery
The new post office bill takes effect June 30 and reshapes postage, prepayment, box rents, and delivery rules. It imposes prepayment for regular publications, sets new rates for letters and drop letters, and fees for failed prepaid mail, with penalties for noncompliance by publishers and postmasters.
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United States
The Contraband Rebuke and Other Civil War Snippets
The fragment recounts a contraband rebuking a copperhead in Providence with sharp wit and a joke about a bull terrier. It also notes a West Virginia furlough story and a humorous military letter about mumps. Professor Winchell reports extensive coal seams in Michigan with mines in Jackson and Corning yielding over twenty five thousand tons.
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Winchell
Michigan
Wiles
Jackson
Cornting
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Old Joe
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Kentucky
Pennsylvania
Louisville Journal
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Jordan
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Commonwealth
Big Sandy
Mississippi
Ohio
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45Th
Pennsylvania Regiment
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Paria
Ensign Skelter
West Virginia
Spleasure
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Richmond
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