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...Gettysburg Address was mostly drowned out by staged crowd noises and by the palaver of two men in particular -one eating an apple...
This story of a battle fought 77 years ago was published in a Gettysburg, Pa. weekly, the Adams Sentinel, four days after the Battle of Gettysburg (July 1-3, 1863). The press on which this historic story was printed was an old Ramage hand press built before...
Last week, in Philadelphia, Publisher John D. Keith of the Gettysburg Star & Sentinel (successor to the Adams Sentinel) turned the old press over to the Franklin Institute for a permanent exhibit. It was probably the oldest U. S.-made printing press in existence. After gathering dust for some 60 years, it still worked well enough to run off souvenir copies of the Institute's program, for Printer M. J. Smith (see cut), who had operated the same press when...
When Robert Harper founded the weekly Adams Centinel (named for Adams County) in 1800, he bought the Ramage press that went to Franklin Institute last week, loaded it on a wagon, carted it up over the Baltimore Pike to Gettysburg. Sixteen years later Robert Harper was dead, his son, Robert Goodloe Harper, had succeeded him, and the Centinel had become the Sentinel. On June 30, 1863, when Confederate cavalry scouts made their first contact with the Union Army west of Gettysburg, the Sentinel suspended an issue for the only time in its life. Next day the Union forces attacked. After...
...Gettysburg's casualties: "We can do nothing less than gratefully and reverently acknowledge the Divine favor which has watched over our lives and our homes. . . . But withal, we have been called to part with some. We have learned only of the following: Killed, Miss Virginia Wade, by our own sharpshooters; and Edward M. son of Alexander Woods, shot accidentally by his brother, while playing with a gun picked off the battlefield...