26 May 1863
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Newspaper
Altoona Tribune
Location
Altoona, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1863
Page
1
BR HILEMAN offers deep stock of clothing and ladies dress goods including casimieres satinetts tweeds and silks. The catalog lists boots hardware queensware and home wares along with linens diapers and carpets in a broad merchant listing from a historic newspaper.
The notice outlines advertising terms for merchants and professionals with rates per line, column widths, and deadlines. It mentions that notices without specified insertion counts run until forbidden and are charged accordingly. Obituary notices cap at ten lines with a surcharge per additional line.
A speaker bids farewell to a child leaving home for fame and fortune. The poem contrasts the innocence and happiness of the childhood home with the temptations and glow of public life, urging the beloved to return when worldly hopes fail. The narrator promises forgiveness and a welcoming home.
Dominica confides in Castagna about an oil painting secret learned in Bruges. Castagna swears fidelity as Dominica grants exclusive access to the new technique, then murders him in a moonlit river ambush, crowning Castagna Florence's premier painter.
A historical catalog lists events associated with Fridays across American history. It cites Christopher Columbus voyages and landfalls, Cabot’s commission, St. Augustine’s founding, Mayflower landing and Plymouth Rock, George Washington’s birth, Saratoga surrender, Arnold’s treason exposure, Yorktown surrender, and the 1776 Congress move toward independence.
The notice advises inspecting corn after a week for cotworm injury and deploying mullein gathered with root as trenching mulch between rows. In the morning, shake worms into a basket and feed to poultry. Two mornings suffice to clear a field as worms hatch. Also notes wire and web worms threaten corn roots near Germantown Telegraph.
A Missouri reader recounts a tale from a quarterly meeting where a presiding elder demands payment from congregants to fund the preacher. The hat is passed as it fills slowly, a boy outside frees his captive girlfriend for twenty five dollars, and the collection finally reaches the required amount amid muttered jokes.
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