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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1851
Page
1
The piece recalls Joan McCanny and Essy of Shippensburg and notes a paralysis strike on a former editor. It mourns a noble hearted aunt and references a lyric homage to fair earth and childhood memories. The fragmentary text hints at a community newspaper tribute and literary verses.
The text laments widespread suffering yet urges focus on beauty and virtue. It urges improving humanity through charity and love, noting God’s sunlit world and the duty to act with integrity even when others speak ill.
A long mixed excerpt recounts advice on pleasing others through small courtesies, a Quaker merchant and his patient rival, boyhood mischief, Parisian tricks, a London crime anecdote, and assorted health and moral miscellany from a 19th century periodical. The tone blends essays on virtue with anecdotal vignettes and fables.
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