31 Oct 1859
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1859
Page
1
Fragmentary OCR text presents garbled phrases and names, making a concise capture difficult. The readable fragments suggest a miscellany note about bright hours, weight, letters, and streets but lack a coherent event or identifiable entities.
An 1830s editorial argues that although women do not vote or attend political meetings, they shape national destiny through education and moral influence. It cites Washington's wife and other revolutionary women, urging mothers to educate themselves and elevate the nation, likening them to quiet guardians steering ships through dark storms.
A reflective piece contrasts enduring youth with age, citing restraint in drink and diet as factors. It likens inner openness to dew that nourishes goodness, warns how vanity and pride destroy true youth, and ends with a child’s quip about not needing loud prayers to be close to God.
A 1828 Nashville tale recalls General Jackson defending his wife’s honor against a hostile newspaper critique. Mrs Jackson confronts the editor at the General’s table, tears the paper, and storms the horse to demand justice for her family. The episode frames Mrs Jackson as a paragon of charity and strength within a community that idolizes her. Lord Brookline is cited for independence of principle, praising conscience over consequence and urging the young to follow duty. A separate anecdote recounts a stagecoach passenger debating Scripture with a Quaker, ending with a witty exchange over truth and timing.
The text presents a fragmentary dialogue about wealth, suitors, and a rich lady, featuring a fortune-hunting bachelor and a lively scene of courtship. Characters Mora Vera and others exchange witty lines as a suitor proposes and the heroine resists with playful banter, culminating in a proposal and a playful kiss.
Old Sam and General Houston drew crowds in Austin with quick humor. Doctor Nima challenged Houston publicly while the General answered with politeness. A wife sought medicine cunningly, a candidate spoke on slavery retrenchment and the penitentiary, and boys told tobacco myths.
A vivid, biblical panorama extols Palestine as fertile and glorious with Lebanon’s peaks, Jericho’s plains, and orchards in bloom. It contrasts this idealized vision with a present depopulated, misgoverned Palestine, warning of divine judgment if abandoned. The piece cites a New Yorker letter as its source and frames the land as God’s promised heritage.
Inquiries about proper fall transplanting of fresh and ornamental trees are answered. Fall planting is best as soon as growth ends to give roots time before frost, with full transplanting preferred for uplands or dry silicious soils and spring transplanting suited to moist or argillaceous soils.
The article describes vast primitive forests in Bulioaia with forty to fifty thousand acres yielding over 400 cards of wood per acre. Trees rise in straight lines 130 to 200 feet tall, marking where giants fell. Some pines are 300 to 500 years old, and a six foot diameter fir blown down contained twenty five cords of wood.
A discussion on teaching children to sing and engage with hymns and sacred songs as part of Sunday worship. The piece argues that a child’s Sabbath differs from an adult’s and emphasizes age appropriate music, stories, and activities. It cites Watts, Addison, and other poets, plus great composers, as "good for Sunday" material and notes how early memory of hymns lasts a lifetime. It also highlights missions, maps, and world progress as enriching Sunday learning.
A disjointed shard of anecdotes recounts a schoolmaster caught in a forest mishap after stepping into a strange trap, a witty Pittsburgh- or Brooklyn-area naval hat mishap, moral maxims about learning daily, a New Orleans rights headline, and a humorous tale of Adelaide Belfour and police pursuit, all with dated flavor and local color.
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