21 Nov 1865
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1865
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR shows names and titles including OFLICHERS and President George Swope Vice-President 8 Russell Secretary D A Bualder Treasurer K A Walinestock Executive Uuinntivee Hubert McCurdy Andrew Jleitteehman Jacob King and Managers incomplete.
Fragmentary verse describes a child resting on a parent's breast while a bird sits nearby and sings. The bird proclaims the child is blessed and mocks those who forget in times of sorrow. The text hints at themes of innocence, shame, and memory.
A wedding vignette extols the mature homebody wife as the heart of a happy family. It contrasts her steady influence with flashy fashions, celebrates temperance, and recounts a wedding where a toast to the bride used water to honor purity, leading guests to banish intoxicants.
A collection of parables and anecdotes on hard work, character, and social conduct. It contrasts lazy habits with industrious youth, warns against idleness, and notes how theft, joking pranks, and misused confidants harm families. It includes moral maxims, Bible references, and small-town anecdotes.
A collection of rustic tales featuring Simeon Parmive in Westford and a religious farmer, a hornets nest prank on a Ohio riverbank, Peyton Roberts’s meteoric fire scare, a drunken rail accident in Norwich, and a humorous note on Dinah in a Southern plantation, all told in a folksy, old newspaper voice.
A deacon visits a dying neighbor and asks if he is willing to go. The neighbor replies yes, and the deacon notes that all neighbors are willing as well, reflecting communal readiness at the moment.
Jacksonville Sentinel reports on a visit to Great Onken Lake in the Cascade Mountains about seventy five miles northeast of Jacksonville. The lake is described as two thousand feet deep around, twelve by ten miles, with a central island and inaccessible water edge. Eyewitnesses claim a rifle shot can be heard before the ball hits water, a feat vouched for by reliable citizens. The piece adds a brief note on Russian railroad cars and assorted anecdotes.
A century ago Ohio Kentucky Indiana and Illinois were sparsely populated with Boone as a frontier figure and Canada under France. The piece recalls early American settlement and compares nations while noting epidemics unusual weather and the era of rapid wealth fueling American travel abroad. It also reports a balloon wedding tour in New York and comments on Mississippi court rulings regarding freedmen rights.
Farmers are healthier due to more outdoor work and stronger muscles, cleaner simple foods, better sleep patterns, and less ruthless rivalry. The note extols gypsum blocks near Surprise Valley Nevada for building use and mentions efforts to rebuild Jerusalem’s Temple with Turkish permission, plus assorted moral and social quips.
A Catholic Pelegraph excerpt lauds Secretary of State William H Seward as one of the ablest in office and predicts he will rise to the task during a critical period. A Washington report notes President Johnson reacting with approval to New Jersey news and Seward supporters celebrating Blair's repudiation in New York.
A Jersey midpoints city called Centerville near Camden and Gloucester met in Committee of the Whole last week. Resolutions passed unanimously include a push for a new state constitution and a mission to address contraband. The record also notes a breach of promise case and several quips from the proceedings and local anecdotes.
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