Temperance Pioneer John Hawkins and Daughter’s Family Revival
A Maryland preacher turned reformer, John Hawkins, and his daughter led a wave of temperance awakening. He spoke to crowds in Annapolis and New York as part of the Washingtonian reform, urged pledges from drinkers, and delivered moving testimonies in Faneuil Hall, Boston, citing liberty and humanity as the cause.
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Hannah
Mr. Hawkins
Maryland
Annapolis
Baltimore
New York
Hawkins
Green Street Methodist Church
N. York
William Wright
Boston
Massachusetts
Faneuil Hall
Adams
Rui
Alcohol and the social evil of drink abuse
A speaker denounces alcohol as a curse worse than war and pestilence. He argues moderate drinking creates alcoholics, condemns allowed venues for temptation, and urges turning public opinion against liquor traffic to prevent fathers and sons from becoming drinkers.
Watchman Denounces Rumseflers In Moral Rallying Cry
A Watchman of the Valley letter condemns Rumseflers as engaged in a conscience-killing trade. It blasts their sale of liquor to ruin souls, urging them to cease before divine wrath and the community’s reproach. It invokes the Bible verse about putting the bottle to a neighbor’s lips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rumseflers
Had every mother adopted this course
A mother facing her husband’s alcoholism vows to shield her children by teaching abstinence and warning of liquor’s evils. She insists on total temperance, guiding her son to adulthood where he and the family embrace sobriety and a life of temperance.
Mothers Rise for Moral Reform against Intemperance
A preacher appeals to Christian mothers to form temperance associations and pledge to banish intoxicants from homes. He urges mothers to model abstinence, protect children, and support moral reform to spare future generations from the harms of drinking and crime.
Awful Circumstance Recalls a Dr P R Tale in Virginia
A Virginia dentist recalls treating a bartender once wealthy, now at risk from drink. A companion’s blasphemous remark about hell and gnashing teeth shocks the doctor, and within a week the man dies in delirium tremens, leaving readers unsettled by rum’s terror.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rum
Hampton
Virginia
From Ruined Taverns to Darkness of Grogshops
The Banner laments tavern decline and the collapse of households and belongings once linked to a prospering liquor trade. It portrays the dealer as built from others misery with every dollar a disease and every penny a curse, urging awakening writings on plaster to expose grog-shop calamities.
Wouns Ladies Seminary Ad for Miss L R Williams
An advertisement for Wouns Ladies Seminary run by Miss L R Williams from the British Provinces. The course mirrors European institutions and promises strict attention to education morals and manners. Music instruction is available from an approved teacher and boarders may enroll. terms as arranged at Broad Street above Bridge Bank Buildings.
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L. R. Williams
Europe
Broad St
Bridge Bank
Pneta Fl
Ters. S. W. Bush
Broad-street
W. Rush
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THE
Southern Medical & Surgical Journal
P. C. Guie
APA
I. P. Garvin
M.D
Paul F.eve
P. C. Guien
Hamburg
Fisinner
EE Scofield
Insurance Bank
Broadstreet
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Wm, Haines, Jr
Junham & Bleakley
Haviland
Risgee Ses
E. Starnes
Franklin
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