08 Sep 1856
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1856
Page
1
A fragmented poetic prose evokes a world where winter lingers and the earth and sea hold a pale glow. Images of frost, rising dawn, and a buried past mingle with glimpses of judgment, memory, and a looming renewal amid sparkling icy light.
A reflective piece extols the domestic hearth as a symbol of warmth, fellowship, and memory. It praises welcoming strangers with kindness, contrasts warmth with cold distrust, and links childhood memories to heavenly renewal. The passage laments changing surroundings yet asserts home as an indestructible source of joy and renewal.
The piece urges daily perseverance across ages and occupations. It cites students, clerks, mechanics, and businessmen facing hard tasks, insisting faithfulness and steady effort will uncover light and success. It stresses honoring time, keeping promises, and tackling work with full effort despite discouragement.
A fragmented reminiscence about Horas Crittenden, Vermont’s first governor, depicted as a plain farmer with strong public and domestic sense. A visiting party of city fashionables is astonished when Mrs. Crittenden blows a tin horn to call workmen to an ample dinner, prompting a witty defense of industrial fairness and social boundaries. The anecdote ends with a quip about sharing meals with laborers and governors alike.
A village landholder exploits tenants by offering a kiss in lieu of rent. A tenant woman refuses, declaring she and her husband can provide their own kissing, highlighting a satirical moral about wealth and coercion. The Elmizu Gazette notes the plight of poor tenants facing debt and the perverse twist of ownership and affection.
A fragment from a 19th century paper recounts a traveler seeing two skeletal figures in a Memphis window, appending a pun on Shakespeare. Other bits mention a New Yorker's six children joke, a governess surprised by needs, and miscellaneous digressions on marriages and letters.
A Parry based American medical student recounts Magendie disparaging medicine as a science and mocks practitioners as empirics. He notes Montpelier’s medical school and claims progress in typhus, diabetes, and phthisis research while denying cure for headaches or heart disease. The tale contrasts two treatment classes and suggests bread pills and water sometimes cure.
A reflective meditation on the transient nature of earthly pleasures and the fragility of life. The narrator cautions against placing the heart in worldly riches and youth, noting that time and fate erode all gains while urging virtue and steadfastness amid uncertainty.
Text reflects a 19th century moral essay on human interdependence and influence, contrasting spiritual duty with personal pleasure and noting how habits like hoops and fashion affect public decorum. It cites sermons, criticizes wide pavements, and comments on ladies fashion, sidewalk safety, and social constraints.
Fragments recount a whiskey cargo sinking in the lower Ohio with a Pine Lick water consignment. Local salvors hauled barrels to shore while wreckers tasted the whiskey amid rough banter and crude talk, including a courthouse anecdote about a judge’s wife and domestic banter in a tavern setting.
Fragmentary OCR recalls famous last words uttered by John Q. Adams Daniel Webster and others. The text notes Adams crying a line about the earth Webster muttering Estill Hive and naming Buchanan amid a Keystone Ulah duelists, as the speaker steps onto a wooden platform.
A collage of humorous sketches and odd anecdotes describes a wandering tale of a shy girl, a debating angel, a fly trap device, and a barber who loses his flies to a mistaken mechanism. Other items recount a storm lodging, a learned judge’s quip, political jests, and a mix of curiosities including feats, accidents, and various society notes.
The passage recounts the Hartford incident of the Charter Oak and the seizure of the colonial charter. Sir Edmund Andros arrived with troops, the assembly faced surrender, Captain Wadsworth reportedly spirited the charter away in a hollow tree, and the tree is said to be ancient and revered by locals.
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