05 Dec 1868
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Newspaper
Sunbury American
Location
Sunbury, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1868
Page
1
A barefoot girl dreams before a toy shop window on a bitter Christmas Eve. A wealthy stranger consoles Lucy Pettigrew, learns her story, and helps her mother and Hetty Moss. The tale links past loves, a lost sister, and a guardian angel in a city of cold streets and sudden gifts.
A struggling dressmaker set up in a humble home with help from relatives. On Christmas Eve Lucy finds no money, but a newly found brother declares ample funds. The next day she attends a grand dinner at the Continental Hotel where Wow Wowetty marries, ending the family’s year of want and longing for a Christmas doll.
A tale from Taxewer county follows a rejected suitor who made his fortune in New York. He returns after a sister-in-law rekindles old affection, only to learn the bride wed her cousin in a hasty ceremony. The heartbroken man travels home disconsolate as the newlyweds depart for New York.
The passage extols piety as the essential ornament of a woman’s life, more enduring than beauty, wealth, or intellect. It argues that true loveliness arises when piety envelops all traits, guiding desires toward God and preparing the soul for heavenly communion and eternal rest.
A sheriff's officer came to seize a writ from a Quaker household. The wife invited the officer in and promised her husband would see him. When the wife revealed the husband would see him, she added that he would not like the officer's looks, so he avoided and left by a different path.
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