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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 11, 1866
Page
1
Fragmentary poem reflecting on reverie and faith. The speaker contemplates purity, nature, and life, contrasting earthly toil with heavenly hope. It ends with a prayer to concentrate the soul, to angels care, and to sleep and wake in the skies.
A Missislateors era item blends Chambers Journal musings on sleep with scenes from a theatre. It recalls sleep as a hidden realm guiding thoughts and dreams, contrasts waking life, and includes a dramatic actor's confession and audience reaction to a bereaved performer.
Fragmentary verse questions why wealth birth and status grant social power while poverty and humble dress attract scorn. It challenges peers who reverence riches over virtue, asking why thousands bow to those with coins and titles yet neglect the poor and ordinary.
A Memphis to Clarksville party rides a flooding Cumberland trip aboard the Nettie Miller. The sinking boat prompts the wife to comb her hair while the niece explains dressing for the young men. Also recounted is the Baptist divine Driver famed for blunt humor and a farmer joke about the North Baptist Church.
A collage of classroom vignettes and humorous anecdotes. A philosopher tests Solon on heat while a French learner jokes about irregular verbs and circumlocution. The piece closes with reflections on thought love and labor framed by a parish scene.
An old Pennsylvania shopkeeper with an unflappable temper outwits a neighbor's bet to provoke anger. The wag tests cloths. the merchant calmly exposes every flaw until finally the objector agrees to buy a single cent’s worth of fabric, paid in full with formal courtesy.
A lengthy 19th century column argues the virtue of women's influence on progress and gratitude for their quiet strength. It blends social reflection with a traveling minstrel license anecdote about a marshal collecting fees, then reports a grim Alabama death with a headless body and a suicide note, followed by a quip about Irish arrivals and time zones.
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