Boot and Shox Store offers custom work and repairs
John L Holtzworth advertises his Boot and Shox Store with an experienced Shoemaker ready to manufacture work on order and attend to repairs promptly. Holiday photo views and a gallery display appear at Excelsior Gallery. Various local ads note bank offerings, livestock powders, shawls, hardware and paints at reduced prices.
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First National Bank of Gettysburg
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Infancy and Age in a Poetic Reverie
A fragmented verse explores childhood dreams and the value of tenderness and duty. The speaker contemplates maturity, love, and faith, contrasting worldly sorrow with heavenly earthly joys and the calling to keep one’s promises. It reads as a reflective, pastiche meditation on human feeling.
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Lu Ethuran Church
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The Cheerful Voice in Home Life
A urged essay on the impact of tone within the home. It stresses kindness and gentle speech for the sake of children, noting delicate listeners and the harm of fretful voices. The piece warns voices carry to impressionable ears and invites calm, cheerful discourse.
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The Secret of Youth and A Grandmother Awakening
A humorous essay argues perpetual youth comes from an optimistic temper and charity toward others rather than beauty or fashion. It contrasts idle comfort with the vigor of positive outlook and shares a tender tale of a boy gently waking his grandmother with a kiss on the cheek.
Anecdotes and Humorous Tales From a Measured Era
A collage of light vignettes and jokes including a dog story of a troublesome country hound, a militia captain and whiskey mishap, a contraband reader with an army chaplain, a feeble elderly gentleman, a Genesis quotation on women, courtroom quips, a taxonomy of fools, and a burglar deterrent tip.
Ornamental Women and the Skills Ideal for Girls
A San Jose Mercury opinion criticizes modern female education for producing useless wives. It argues women should learn housekeeping, clothing construction, and language, stressing practical duties over arts and sciences. The piece blames mothers for perpetuating the ornamental ideal and urges practical instruction for daughters.
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Let Well Enough Alone The Hair and Youth
A satirical pair of notes on hair removal and dyeing habits, urging natural aging over cosmetic tinkering. It then reports on the Atlantic Cable project with Great Eastern progress and an April target, noting stored wires, daily nerve tests, and expected twelve words per minute transmission if successful. Navy vessels may join the effort in July.
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Great Eastern
How to Move a Sullen Ox
A lighthearted tip from the Genesee Farmer on how to provoke a cow to rise by dropping a dog among them. Also a moral reflection comparing yearly troubles to a bundle of sticks, urging daily manageable burdens. A Washington telegram notes President Johnson’s stance on the Baltimore platform and postwar Southern politics.
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Mrs Lincolns Presentiment Foretold Lincoln Death
A Boston journalist reports Mrs Lincoln expressed a premonition of tragedy two weeks before President Lincoln died. She recalled his melancholy remark about Europe and feared calamity would end his term, a belief later fulfilled.
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Old Country
Svston Journal
Cracker Crullers Recipe Introduced For Breakfast Or Tea
A homemaker presents a method for making water crackers puffed in plain water then fried in hot drippings or butter until brown. Split and glaze with sugar or fruit jelly for a first class delicacy served hot.
Reflections on virtue in bad times and a note on wartime life
The excerpt argues that good men are needed in corrupt eras to curb evil and inspire virtue, citing biblical precedent and moral discipline. It discusses marriage choices highlighting a pious, dutiful wife, then reports Cincinnati youths robbing the post office, seven youths arrested, the oldest under fourteen, followed by citations praising physicians and healers. It ends with remarks on rebel agents in Europe, blockade easing, and待遇 of Slidell as Richmond falls.
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Dean Sherlock
Somie pewsboys
Cincinnati
Europe
Richmond
Slidell
The Magnet's Power and Weathercock Fable
A fragmented historical piece explains magnet strength through small and large magnets and notes iron as the main attracted substance. It includes a fable about a weathercock and wind arguing over pleasing everyone with the wind deciding to blow where it pleases.
Efficacy of Onions in Treating Longstanding Colds
A writer prescribes nightly raw onion taken before bed to ease severe coughs and throat irritation and to draw fluids from the lungs. The onion is said to be heating and to collect poison from the air and the body when consumed or applied externally to the arm.
Ice Use and Abuse Across Sickness and Health
The article contrasts harmful effects of consuming large amounts of iced drinks with benefits of cold applications for inflammations and bleeding. It notes ice can chill the body and impede digestion yet helps reduce heat and congestion in some conditions. It also discusses social and moral cautions about youth and ambition.
Chief Justice Chase on Negro Suffrage in Charleston
The address urges patience and perseverance for African Americans seeking suffrage. Chase asserts eventual right, urges dignified conduct, and says delay should be corrected by work and good citizenship. He argues universal suffrage benefits all, and emphasizes duty, self respect, and social progress.
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Charleston
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