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Newspaper
Waynesboro Village Record
Location
Waynesboro, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
May 01, 1863
Page
1
In a Baldwin tone Bayard Taylor notes winter’s grip in Wartime style frost breath and bare hills. The poem laments a vanished green and asks if love and promise survive the cold. It envisions future aprils and summers waiting in snow’s womb.
A heartfelt fragment recalls a loved one not present at the old hearth store gathering. The speaker cherishes memories of happier days, longs for the absent kin to return, and hopes they may someday feel the familiar spell of homecoming beside the setting sun.
A dramatic vignette portrays a drunken father expelled from home as a dying mother and a child endure cold and fear. The story follows the family's agony, the child's plea for salvation, and a mother's hopeful faith in God amid hardship.
In a bitter night a drunken brawl ends with a husband killed and a mother and child found frozen in their attic bed. The dying man prays for his companions to renounce alcohol as the grim scene closes with his spirits rising to meet them in judgment.
A moral lecture decries drinking with vivid warnings of ruin and death. It contrasts the danger of taverns with the elegy of fallen drinkers and the need for temperance. The text also includes a lengthy civic note on a Masonic speech by Ely Parker and a childhood confession about cruelty to a disabled man.
On the ninth, between 9 and 10 p.m., bright lines formed a National Flag in the northern sky, observed by many townsfolk with awe. Some witnesses also claimed soldiers marching with flags appeared in the heavens, though the second claim is less vouched for.
A historical piece argues the United States should recognize God in coinage and public life. It praises the Mint director's call to stamp God our Trust on coins and to inscribe it above doors and hearths, claiming victorious fields depend on divine aid.
A fragment from the 12th Wisconsin regiment at Camp Butler Tennessee declares stern action against rebels with harsh penalties for arson and treason. They express support for the conscription law and vow to aid the government, while contrasting duty to protect the nation with terror in the South.
A moral essay warns that no life-work will match personal tastes and ease. Success comes from hard, persistent effort and single-minded devotion. Readers are urged to stay with their chosen path, master it, and let love and marriage be guarded from outside intrusion.
Curiosities note microscopic life on and in the human body with an engraving of the itch causing animal. It recalls a sailor’s mud containing countless shells under a microscope and comments on wisdom and contentment with short maxims. A noisy, mixed slice of anecdotes and quotations fills the page.
Headquarters near Falmouth Virginia April 11 1863 report of a meeting of the 132d Pennsylvania Volunteers at headquarters April 7 1863 to express loyalty to the nation and a vigorous prosecution of the war. Officers president Col Chas Albright vice presidents Shreve Hiddock secretaries Clapp. Resolutions condemn copperheads favor constitutional supremacy and support Lincoln administration and conscription urging continued fight until rebellion ends. Regiment formed before headquarters and resolutions read and adopted unanimously with cheers.
The passage offers garbled lines about women not chasing men, girls spreading their hats, and youths mocked for chasing calves. It includes reflections on death, rot, and old sayings, with scattered phrases about carriage wheels and fields. The text reads as a distorted, midstream transcription of colloquial speech.
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