21 Sep 1846
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1846
Page
1
A reflective meditation compares modern virtue with religious history. It frames the crucifixion scene and the Lord’s prayer, urging readers to imitate Christ’s forgiveness. The piece highlights sorrow, betrayal, and mercy as guiding moral gems across time.
Many people speak lightly of their neighbors and attack those absent, which wounds friendships and serves no good. Selfish pride fuels this, while thoughtlessness also harms society. Readers should examine their own conduct, reflect on shared humanity, and judge others with tenderness, avoiding shabby criticisms.
A reflective piece extols the enduring beauty of women from matron to girl, praising maternal devotion and feminine charm while warning that sensual minds lack refined taste. It condemns trivial vanity and contrasts true beauty with fleeting novelty seen in street encounters.
A two year old girl from No 1 Federal Court Boston slipped into a tiny floor cavity beneath a building where a cat and kittens occupied the space. The entrance was barely large enough for her body and she could not turn. She remained thirteen hours until nine Monday morning, found faint and exhausted. Neighbors and police aided a long search, aided by the voice heard faintly, the cat staying by the child’s side. The tale ends with the child rescued unharmed though exhausted, in a perilous spot infested with rats.
A compact ode to the value of industry and integrity. It praises yesterday’s poor boy turned skilled, honorable, and determined by true principles, capable of national greatness regardless of wealth. It extols upright character as the true source of power and freedom, eclipsing dishonest riches.
A corporal teases Aunt Prudy with the claim she is “no better than she ought to be,” provoking her to defend her strict morality. The exchange reveals Prudy’s hurt at slander while noting her virtuous nature and the social sting of gossip in a small community.
A well built colored man slept on a vessel’s tail at Bowly’s wharf when he rolled overboard into the dock. Rescuers reached him with a long pole and found him clinging to the pole, claiming he slept soundly until the pole woke him. The incident was treated as serious, with the man noting the wakeup as the punch woke him.
A traveler from Orange County visits New York and dines at the Astor House, puzzled by printed dinner guides and eager to sample dishes. The piece blends anecdotes about alandlord’s menu, Irish workers, and a comical misadventure with rope and a log, followed by short moral vignettes on love, camp life, and curious frontier marriages. It ends with notes on royal powders in Delhi and general mass curiosities.
The piece extols abstinence from food to cure illnesses and headaches, citing self-denial by doctors, plus diet changes as remedies for constipation headaches fever and dyspepsia. It notes spirit of hartshorn as a cure for mad dog bites and hydrophobia and gives Queen Victoria’s income as 500000 pounds with millions of workers earning far less.
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