Fresh Confectionery and Groceries York Gettysburg Ad
A cluttered 19th century advertisement page notes a confectionery shop one door east of the Eagle Motel on Chambersburg Street offering cakes, candies, fruits, and ice cream for households and visitors. Also promoted are groceries, hardware, pianos, sewing machines, picture frames, and various goods from local Gettysburg merchants with urging to visit stores and expect low prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ax G
Cers, &c
Soroue
Old Grand
Washington and
Nailroad
Baltimore
Werehouse of Stevenson & Sons
North Howard Street
CULP
Gettysburg
Eagle Motel
Chambersburg Street
Himgel
Grurl
New York
Iterahd
Empire
Empire Manufacturing Co. Ig
Broadway
New York City
Ierald
Inauguration Ode At Gettysburg 1805 Dedication
A fragmentary ode praising the dedication at Gettysburg with reverent appeals to liberty and patriotism. It references soldiers, martyrs, and the living and dead, and includes lines about mothers, children, and marriage as symbols of national virtue. The text mixes 1805 dedication sentiments with later lines about peace and freedom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tromesfeld
Gettysborg
Hymns, Sabbath, and Hymen: Mirthful Moral Musings
The piece muses on wealth and happiness, praising contentment and a quiet conscience while warning riches cannot buy joy. It cites Sabbath observance as key to prosperity, laments a hymenal epidemic, and notes marriage trends as signs of national vigor. It closes with humorous vignettes on speech and piety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solomon
Grant
Beauty and Ugliness Across Cultures and Time
The essay surveys historical notions of beauty and ugliness from ancient Venice to Greek sculpture and medieval morals. It contrasts admired features like squinting eyes and hunchbacks with societal judgments of virtue and wickedness, noting how language links beauty to goodness and ugliness to evil. It cites Milton and various cultures to show subjective standards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tamerlene
Venice
Cicero
Veona
Minerva
Epsom Downs
Dioscloridas
Donnybrook Fair
Archangel
Milton
The Beauty of Old People and Other Vignettes
A fragment from a periodical exhibits musings on aging and beauty, contrasting youth with elder grace and thought’s radiance. It notes shared aging in couples, then shifts to quirky anecdotes about crime and social satire including a Paris thief and idle maxims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Volga
Sha Hae
Paris
Murderers of Union Soldiers Released
Four South Carolina men James C Keys Robert Keys F G Sowers and Busha Byram were tried by a military commission for murdering three Union guards over botton and banished to the Dry Tortugas before being freed by Judge Willard Hall in Delaware Court on a writ of habeas corpus. The piece then discusses Reconstruction politics and European affairs with varied opinions.
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South Carolina
James C. Keys
Robert Keys
F. G. Sowers
Busha Byram
Botton
O. H. Browning
Interior
Johnson
Fort Delaware
United States District Court of
State of Delaware
Willard Hall
Hall
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eBeiayy
FPVNE
U.S
Court of Claims
Washington
R.G
D. McCnnaughy
FFICE
Buchjee’s
Deng & Book Store
KR. Gneal
Wills
Batti—more and High Streets
Presbyterian Church
J. Lawrence Inl
Lutheran Church
Chambersburg $T
KR. Horner
BK Sree
Kriuth
Malleaber
M. Sssuba
Stoovee
J. Baugher
Ueber
Joseph P. Clarkson
Curcagy
Box
Chicago
Bic Enn
Ite
R.G. Harper
Enq
the Sentinel
I'vof
M. L. Stoever
Mahnestesk Brothers
P. A. Buehler
Grain and Croceries
Mesh
Endeas Tor
Eall
William Boyer & Son
Az Subgent
Weo
York Street
Bank of Gettysburg
Meals & Brother
Fhris
Geo Little
West Middle Street
Fouile
Uardware & Cruveries
Baltimore Street
Callan
Jull
B. Danner
David Ziegler
Pricknquser & Wisd Takey
Pians Forte
London
Germany
Philadelphia
Boston
Aim Institute
Mia
Jd. DL. Grovesthen
Hpanlysi—Iy
Empire Sewing Machine Co
Pringival
Theadway, New York
Empire Shuttle
Avents
Zigen
Empirg Sewing Macalneco
Pilaiannnd
Moyner's Brug and Variety Store
G. H. Buruler
Comrdore
Pennsylvania
Daphorn & Hoffman
Jerry Davis
Perry Davis
Hitler
Mireulara
Nfeoe
Axtula
Marcus L. Burn
Box Hib
Pol
Cedar Street
TNO
Edward A. Wilson
Williamsburg
Kings Courty
United States
Hows, Wheeler , Wilson, Grova & Baker, Singer & Co
Bachelder
Usar
Shaw & Ulsrk
Biddeford
Maine
Youtil
Ogten
Chawbers St
N.Y
Wheaton
Weeks & Potter
Sele
Washington Street
Thos. F. Chapman
Jen
Gaise Posey
Cumiusly
Isabella Tamils
Caiona
Ping Meadowa
Beaty
Sutaumr
Sissllagoens
Axdama
Pat
Bea Docaticka
Gar
Traverse City
Michigan
Etrsight
Goliah
David
Sife
Atlantic
Niagara
South
Suer
Congress
Europe
England
Great Britain
Hughland
France
Napoleon
Italy
Austria
Prussia
Gep
Morida
Negro Bastinouy
Dacksoavilla
Ata Sundsy
Bradford County
Paera
God
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