Temperance feast and moonlight banquet at Hamburg
The Hamburg Journal reports a temperance day including a noon banquet for nearly 300 citizens with speeches by Col. John Milledge and others, a ball, and a call for temperance in all things. A separate note details chemical analysis confirming alcohol in a brain sample linked to a death, per Dr. Lewis and Dr. Percy.
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W. G
M. Gray
W. Edney
Andrew J. Hammond Esq
Citadel
John Milledge
Augusta
Bacchus
Hamburg
Alcohol detected in the brain case at Edinburgh infirmary
Walter Smith aged 45 was brought in by police in a coma with strong breath and frothy mouth. An emetic was given and he died twenty minutes after admission. He had a history of extreme intemperance and brain vessels were deeply congested with serum effusion found on dissection.
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Royal Infirmary
Edinburgh
Lewis
Medical Examiner
Walter Smith
Honest Confession Challenges Rum Seller on Profit
A Water Street rum seller publicly admits there is no profit in drinking yet continues in selling. The piece argues that profits from selling alcohol come at moral and personal cost, and questions how anyone can justify a trade that harms others while denying gains from the product. It condemns the bottle trade as unprofitable in true value.
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Water Street
Rum-selling warned against by Norwich Spectator
The Norwich Spectator decries rum-selling as a moral danger to bodies and souls. It urges rum-sellers to pause reflect and abandon the trade, noting life is fleeting and streets remain crowded with people who will soon pass.
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Spain
Norwich Spectator
Temperance Oration Delivered at Decatur by W H Dassey
Our thanks are due to friends at Decatur for a manuscript copy of an excellent Temperance Oration delivered there on the 4th inst by W H Dassey Esq. It will appear in our next number.
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Decatur
W. H. Dassey
Noted Doctor Arpietron Arrested in Lancaster
The famous Dr Arpietron has been arrested in Lancaster Pennsylvania as a fugitive from justice from Bordenton New Jersey and will be surrendered to the authorities of that state.
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Dr. Arpietron
Lancaster Pa
Bordenton
N. J
Wasuryeronian drive to back paper with strong temperance push
The Southern Chronicle reports Col. Preston agrees to deliver the eulogy for Huen 8. Legare and the committee sets the first Tuesday in November. It urges Washingtonians to support the Wasuryeronian with a dollar, promotes temperance, praises Independence Day celebrations, and cites an extract by Hon. Thomas F. Marsnatt on alcohol's dangers.
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Southern
Col. Preston
Huen
Legare
The Ruby Lips and Glowing Cheeks of American Beauty
A prose passage laments vice and social corruption while praising patriotism and the ideal of American beauty. It urges pure sacrifice and the preservation of liberty, contrasting colonial vassalage with a hopeful national spirit.
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Fair Daughters of America
Alcohol's ruin of family bonds and humanity
A moral exhortation argues that alcohol destroys the parental bond and the protection of wives and children. It claims intoxication erodes strength, care, and religious virtue, leaving a man dehumanized and severing the family tie as suffering and misery deepen.
Essay on Poisoning by Alcohol Concludes Its Dangers
A Victorian discussion summarizes Dr. Percy's conclusions on alcoholic poisoning. The author warns alcohol as a fast, ruinous poison, not a slow one, detailing evidence about alcohol in brain tissue, blood, and organs and noting cases of brain effusion after fatal intoxication.
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Percy
Ogston
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the Washingtonian
Washington
W. T. Beantry
Don
Geo. F. Perce
Joan Mitenee
F. M. Robertson
D. Hoox
S. T. Chapman
James Harper
Bat
Thomas F. Marsnatt
Madeira
Toran Austinence
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