Temperance appeal notes child welfare and liquor sales
A temperance advocate recounts a case where a sick child lacked care while a neighbor supported by alcohol consumed by a drunken woman. The incident involves a store clerk named Rhodes and a boy who bought liquor for the woman. The piece urges citizens to pledge temperance and notes a father’s promise to sign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Andrew Palmer
Mr. Rhodes
Frans
RB Bevis
Conpit
Pean Ucieaeer
The Drunken Mother and a Watchful Child
A vivid scene from a city street shows a helpless mother in a tattered cloak, beset by alcohol harm, with a pale hungry boy cradling her as onlookers donate a coin and invoke protection. The piece condemns intemperance and dismisses moral drones who ignore temperance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall of Records
V. Y. Aurora
Moral Drones and Moral Duty in the Community
A critical essay denounces a class of complacent individuals who ignore vice in their own circles and refuse to participate in moral reform. The piece laments their self image as refined souls while avoiding sacrifice for the race.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ting Willeis
Middlesex Washingtonian
Temperance and Religion by Joan Bowes Minister
A minister argues that temperance strengthens faith and society. She cites church expulsions linked to strong drink and notes many avoid spiritual growth where drink thrives. She asserts total abstinence helps some families, though not all become Christian.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Temperance
Joan Bowes
Temperance Reform Converts Souls From Satan to Christ
The piece extols temperance reform by noting former drinkers who found Christ and now preach salvation. It questions liquor’s eternal cost, cites 60 000 annual deaths from alcohol and a death every eight hours, and contrasts converts with those still enslaved, warning of vices linked to drunkenness and urging self denial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Satan
Kingdom of Heaven
Heaven
Hell
The Saturday Evening Messenger Prospectus 1844
Prospectus for a new weekly paper led by Major Jones with departments for temperance poetry ladies youth and original communications. It promises a large imperial sheet 28 columns, editor William T Thompson behind the paper and subscriptions at $3 yearly starting January. Readers urged to send names by December 1 to support southern press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aveusta
Ourself
Romanch
Messencer
Bogs Os
Augusta
Jones
Ajor Joseppa Jones
Pineville
Messenger
Ublic
Saturday Evening Messenger
William T. Thompson
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Temperange
Portland
Wash
Journal
Cts
Friends of ‘Temperance
Robespierres
Dantons
Marais
Prospectus
W. T. Thompson
Ee — Net
P . Augusta
Noel
Macintosh Street
Constitutionalist
Ppunham & Bleakley
New York
E. Swagnes
Franklin Literary Society
Frook Binderyard
Blank Book Manufactory
The
Washingtonian Printing Office
Een
WM. Haines, Jr
Oseae Eee
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