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Newspaper
Aurora Commercial
Location
Aurora, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1862
Page
3
Neatly enveloped and ready for mailing copies of No 16 Freight and No 18 Extra Copies of the Commercial are now obtainable at this office.
The note requests exact change from city subscribers next Thursday Christmas, to close the year square. It mentions Major Platter recovering, Amos Lane's return from Helena, and the Pay Department being cash short. Also reports General Pleasanton praising the Third Cavalry and other local items.
The piece recounts lectures about Bible lands with notes on Engannim Do than Dothan and Samaria, describing towns, ruins, and oases. It also urges Soldiers' Aid Societies to aid suffering soldiers and praises women's patriotic duties to comfort the wounded and bolster Union efforts.
The excerpt recounts Samaria once named Sebaste and Samaria, built by Omri and later by Ahab with a grand temple of Baal destroyed by Jehu. It notes Gehazi’s leprosy linked to Naaman, ongoing leprosy in the town, ruins of a Herodian colonnade near Augustus temple, and the Knights Hospitaller church of St John atop the grotto where John the Baptist was imprisoned and beheaded.
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