29 Sep 1863
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Newspaper
Adams Sentinel
Location
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1863
Page
1
Dr Robert Horner announces a new drug store in Gettysburg occupying the former Drs Meaxer room. The shop will stock medicines and sundries and invites citizen patronage as it opens in August.
A reflective poem contemplates memory and mortality as evening deepens. Imagery shifts from fading daylight to night sounds and woodland hush, culminating in a serene, nocturnal lullaby about rest and solace despite inner distress. The piece weaves nature with inner emotion, evoking calm through darkness.
A fragmented 19th century text warns of dangers from overeating and concentrated foods, noting poisons in a city reservoir tale and linking digestion to disease. It cites diet rules, personal experience, and contrasts with autumn air health tips and moral maxims.
A countryman visiting Downs & Co. on Lake Street mistook his reflection for a living brother in a large store mirror. He chased the illusion through the aisles, touched the glass, and fled swearing that the barnyard looking glass had swallowed him.
In a heated session during debates on the Kansas Nebraska bill Senator Seward offered Douglas a private room with twenty year old Bourbon. Douglas claimed his speech would be the longest ever, noting Seward’s quip that it seemed sixty years old. The exchange ended with mutual grins as Seward helped Douglas away.
The piece critiques choices for governor and national leaders, arguing for Curtin and against Woodward and Vallandigham, linking votes to support for the Union, military service, and peace stance. It reports on the President’s proclamation, draft anxieties, deserters, and a Kansas murder case involving Rev. Snyder, noting Ohio artillery and Indiana volunteers as context.
The piece portrays soldiers not all backing Curtin for governor, as a Maryland style cheer for Woodward at the Pennsylvania railroad depot reveals deserters among the troops. The report cites Parson Brownlow’s Knoxville launch and a portland mills accident where Mrs Smith died after a revolver misfire during an arrest attempt.
The Wheeling Register notes Confederate prisoners arriving in town and tells of a twenty four year old man whose hair graymed after first battle while joining the army. Also reports a fierce state along Missouri and Kansas borders with depredations. General Banks leads a review in Louisiana with vivid colors and veteran spirits. Isaac Seymour dies at Trinity Church and his daughter present. he was about seventy.
Stephen Crandall of Tiverton Rhode Island died aged ninety eight from cholera morbus. He had once fed a whole field of corn and kept excellent health. He claimed to have heard the first gun at Bunker Hill and its reverberations from where he stood.
An army correspondent reports a march with General Blunt discovering a sour water spring nearly equal to vinegar. The article notes minerals and coal a few feet below the surface. Smikes comments on child discipline via slippers. A witness at a court hearing is a young boy with tobacco. A Wisconsin preacher compares a miser to a mustard seed and bull frog. A tale describes the horrors of solitary confinement for a hundred prisoners.
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