Word: sentinel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...rifle, suggested that they celebrate the good old days with a good old-fashioned shooting match. Carried by acclamation. The hotel corridor made a fine shooting gallery, with a homemade target set at one end of it. It was all carried out in military style. One Dane stood sentinel at the elevator door, warning back passengers with a white flag. As the rifle banged, horrified hotel guests cowered in their rooms, bellhops scurried for cover. Several bullets hit the target. Nobody got shot. It was one of the most successful meetings the Manhattan chapter of the Royal Danish Guard...