21 May 1849
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 21, 1849
Page
1
The subscriber states he has taken over the celebrated Cold Springs establishment near the South fountain, a well known site in the region, and announces his management to the public embracing the surrounding community.
A fragmented historical piece on maternal guidance and moral rectitude contrasts with a medical note describing the lungs’ air cells. It emphasizes wise motherhood as crucial for a child’s voyage through life, then shifts to a dry anatomy overview of the lungs’ countless air sacs and the need for pure air with every breath.
A reflective piece condemns rash reports that harm reputations and urges careful, charitable judgment. It warns readers to assess reporters, seek corroboration, and avoid repeating unverified claims, quoting moral rules and scripture. It contrasts courtship with marriage humorously, noting how social bets and banter mask deeper duties.
Horace Mann defends ventilated classrooms comparing limited air to Noah’s flood, urging ample atmosphere for children. A Fireside ideal: true ambition is happiness at home, as family harmony proves virtue and warmth of the household.
A tale recounts Dr Dwight urging neighbors to plant more fruit to deter plunder, proving his idea as fifteen years pass with abundant crop and no theft. A father consoles his five year old daughter, who declares she is good to love her father, illustrating affection as the highest good money can buy. The piece ends praising living fully in affectionate love.
A widowed farmer in a French village wakes at midnight to a troubling dog that leads him to a hedge where a white sheeted phantom appears. The specter, claiming to be his deceased wife, warns him not to marry Marie and to wed Amieta instead. He unmasks the goblin as Henrietta Bherself, and the farmer rushes to publish banns for his marriage to her.
A collection of humorous vignettes and anecdotes from a pastor and curate dispute about preaching quality, a blubbering Jonathan lamenting loss, a tobacconist boy explaining why he chews, a language puzzle about scissors, and a grim mortality remark from two sextons. It notes American enterprise and Browneville/Mata moras growth as context.
A survey of famed diamonds notes India Company weight 92 carats valued at 3 185 000 and a royal Burmese stone of 867 carats once offered with ships for war. It also covers Portugal queen diamond at 11 ounces valued at 31 120 000, Pitt diamond at 500 000, and Russian Crown Jewels valued 3 414 837. Missionary board reports 110 081 for receipts and 110 207 for expenditures, with 21 new missionaries sent and ongoing global missions in India Africa Siam and Europe. Ingenious transport by E H Howard features a boat wagon to California. News brief mentions European battles at Novara, theatre accident at Arch Street, a fatal crash of a laborer chasing a rabbit, two women in male dress in Providence, and a Chambersburg marble game commentary.
A Niagara Falls factory owned by Messrs. Patterson and Murray is described as possibly the world’s largest wooden pail mill. Employing extensive machinery, it produces about 1000 pails per day and 500 lids, consuming vast pine logs yearly, with rapid, uniform results and a contrast to past hand manufacturing.
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