Column 1, and sometimes column 2, carried random news items, sometimes mixing local, national, international, and human interest stories on a single page. On February 1, for example, agricultural advice reprinted from the Country Gentleman appeared alongside an item describing battles between United States troops and Native Americans in the West.
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Columns 3-6, again, were advertisements. Unlike ads appearing on other pages of the Valley Spirit, however, information on page 8 clearly appealed especially to agricultural, commercial, and legal interests. Market information appeared here (with commodity prices from Chambersburg, and usually from Philadelphia and Baltimore as well), as did a yearly almanac calendar. The remainder of the columns were generally filled with information about banks, land sales (local and regional), court cases, and other legal notices, such as estate divisions.
