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Newspaper
Alton Observer
Location
Alton, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1837
Page
4
A translated excerpt from a French Royal Central Agricultural Society report explains beet sugar culture and simple home production methods. It notes that a family can extract juice, purify it, and boil to sugar using ordinary utensils, with thermometers and hydrometers costing about three dollars.
In Jacksonville February 1837, Rev F W Graves forwards a New Jersey tale showing a farmer's son ruined by alcohol from his father's store. Distillers and grocers in Illinois are urged to fear similar ruin and adopt temperance principles. The Illinois Temperance Union notes Philadelphia’s Temperance Journal and critiques state society indecision over wine use and its effect on abstinence efforts.
A narrator aboard a June packet from a southern city to New York describes a slave hiding in the hold seeking freedom. The officer discovers him, eliciting reactions from passengers, culminating in the slave leaping into the sea to avoid capture, choosing death over bondage. The passage notes the launch of a Washingtonian newspaper in Washington backing Mr. Rives.
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