04 Sep 1832
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1832
Page
1
A reflective poem describing the sorrow of losing a loved one. It contrasts aging and youth, memory and prayer, and the moment of standing by a beloved’s bedside as life fades. The speaker anchors the farewell in heavenly longing and the calm of twilight and stars.
A melodramatic tale set during the French Revolution follows a guard officer torn between zeal for liberty and mercy for a convent girl facing the guillotine. His final plea to spare her clashes with revolutionary orthodoxy, ending in tragedy for both captor and captive.
A letter from TZ.S. Gaz endorses Boston’s plan to relocate habitual drunkards to an island asylum during cholera fears. The writer argues for a Philadelphia version, proposing swift transport of intoxicated individuals to a river island fort for purgation, critiquing sanitary officials and the public health approach.
Fragmented reader letter on locating the West through rivers canals and territory. Notices Dr Ayres entry into Montreal with Indians and their belief garments ward off disease. New York Board of Health urges clergy to warn against quackery and nostrums amid cholera fears. St Louis, Missouri described as pretty west city with French society and American families, charming upper city views and vivid social scene.
An 1831 letter from Bassurah describes a fiery serpent plague in Bagdad and Hanadan with bites causing madness and rapid death as streets fill with corpses. The report notes alarm among inhabitants and cites further accounts from Jadia Gazette about wine consumption in France and a Warsaw letter detailing a Russian pension dispute driving a woman to murder her children and herself.
In Madrid the bullfights and theatres closed for the cholera prayer period. Grog sellers faced a 500 ducat fine for raising medicine prices. Athens’ Socrates reportedly survived plague through temperance and equanimity. Diogenes mocked pride at Olympia then condemned it among Rhodes and Spartans. A Glass House near Brooklyn’s liquor license denial led to a drunken man’s death, cited as cholera’s sudden judgment.
An elderly gentleman and a young mustachioed man argued at a coffee house in Paris leading to a pistol challenge. The young man shot a bird mid demonstration, then offered a boxing of skill in exchange for subscription money for cholera patients, while a separate Lowell census notes 72 residents in a small Irish-occupied house.
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