Temperance appeal uncovers child endangerment by liquor sellers
A temperance advocate reports a neighbor’s ill child neglected by an intoxicated woman who bought liquor for a boy to purchase. The incident traces to a clerk who sold spirits to a child, prompting a complaint and renewed pledge talks, with city leaders urged to keep up the temperance fight.
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Andrew Palmer
Mr. Rhodes
Frans
RB Bevis
Conpit
Pean Ucieaeer
The Drunken Mother and Child Scene in Public View
A vivid Portland area report describes a mother in rags intoxicated near the Hall of Records with a malnourished boy clutching her, a junk bottle beside them, and the reader moved to pity. The piece condemns intemperance while highlighting the child’s hunger and the observers’ impulse to aid. It cites temperance zeal and moral drones as pervading threats to virtue.
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Hall of Records
V. Y. Aurora
Moral Drones and Moral Decline in Society
The essay criticizes a class of complacent individuals who ignore vice in their circles. It portrays these people as refined yet morally detached, unwilling to sacrifice for the improvement of their species. It condemns their perception of virtue as beneath their status.
Temperance and Religion by Joan Bowes
Minister Joan Bowes argues temperance strengthens religion and society. She cites church expulsions linked to drink, describes how total abstinence helps people hear the gospel and adopt faith, and notes some abstainers become infidels yet many testify religious beginnings from abstinence advocacy.
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Temperance
Joan Bowes
Temperance reform saves souls from drink's ruin
The article extols temperance converts once under Satan's rule now preaching Christ and promoting society's good. It laments liquor's toll, citing 60,000 yearly drunkards dying, one death every ten minutes, and the drunkard's exclusion from heaven. It urges self denial and abstinence as path to salvation.
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Christ
Satan
Kingdom of Heaven
Heaven
Hell
The Saturday Evening Messenger Prospectus 1844
The prospectus outlines a broad South press weekly including foreign news temperance and Commercial World content. It promises poetry a Ladies and Youths department original communications Major Jones Corner and editorials with neutrality on politics and religion. Subscriptions are three dollars per year or three for two copies, starting January 4.
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Ourself
Romanch
Messencer
Bogs Os
Augusta
Jones
Ajor Joseppa Jones
Pineville
Messenger
Ublic
Saturday Evening Messenger
William T. Thompson
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