Howard's Letter on common sense and public morals today
A New York letter argues common sense is scarce amid pervasive moral policing. It criticizes a New Jersey academy for exposing students to explicit topics, urges teachers to rely on true common sense, and condemns vice suppression as hypocritical and overbearing. It links guardians of virtue to broader social overreach and urges restraint.
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New York
Earth
New Jersey
Academy
Louis XI
Mount of Observation
New -Jersey
Onur
Society For the Suppression of
Ian
John Hall
Fifth Avenue
Heaven and Earth
Lou
Mercury
Pullman Palace
Howard
A Mormon Merchant Who Slept Cold
A Salt Lake City merchant traveling to Chicago from New York recounts a brutal cold ride in a sleeper car. He describes waking at 2 a.m. shivering in summer underwear with a spring overcoat as a porter shows a thermometer reading 31 degrees below zero.
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Chicago Herald
Salt Lake City
Chicago
New York
Clergyman Cured of Catarrh by Patented Recipe
After years of suffering from catarrh the clergyman found a remedy that fully cured him and saved his life. Send a stamped self addressed envelope to Prof A Lawrence 58 Warren Street New York to receive the receipt free of charge.
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A. Lawrence
Warren Street
New York City
Frenzied News In Brief From Far and Wide
A chaotic compilation notes tariff talk on flour, brewing plans in St Louis, dynamite threats, frontier fears, a Columbus saw factory fire, a large real estate auction, and a string of disasters and political moves. Storms, fires, political shifts, and social turmoil ripple across cities from Montreal to Georgia with numerous casualties and investigations ongoing.
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Engl
Dicate
St.Louis
Montana
Uhlen
Columbus
United States
Om County
James M. Lanc Ocleville
Union League of Chicago
Washington
Lee Jacob D. Cox
Ohio Society of New York
Delmoica’s
Rothschilds
Burmah
Clark
Joshua Jones
New York
Myers Opera House
Janesville
Wis
Milwaukee
General Harrison
Indianapolis
Georgia
South Carolina
Missouri
Barnes
Japan
New England Society of Florida
Jacksonville
McLean
Wills
Glens Falls
N.Y
Isidore Horn
Ary Goods and Nation
Southstreet
Phiadelphia
Max Schwartz
Babe
Cleveland
Carlisle
Cowles
Congress
Ottawa
Nova Scotia
Macdonald
Milan of
Servia
Nisch
House
Senate
Military Academy
The
Knights of Pythias
Weymouth
Brockton
Holyoke
Worcester
North Adams
Portsmouth
N. H
Hartford
Conn
New England
Ith
Workman Powderly
Knights of Labor
Order
Powderly
Clash at the mines widens as officers move to quell
A bloody collision is feared as county officers head to the mines to quell trouble. Justice Patterson of the New York Supreme Court denies Henry Gillig's suit seeking a receiver of profits from the joint enterprise of Lawrence Barrett and Edwin Booth. Chinese passengers rise in Port Townsend immigration concerns as the Walla Walla report arrives.
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New York Supreme Court
Henry Gillig
American Exchange
Europe
Lawrence Barrett
Edwin Booth
San Francisco
Port Townsend
W. T
Walla Walla
Fight
Victoria
B. C
Bell Boy Brings $51,000 In California Stallion Sale
Lexington Ky February 21 A Browne Co Kalamazoo Mich and M R Bissell Grand Rapids Mich bought nine year old bay trotting stallion Anteco for $30,000 from the Sonoma County Stock Breeders Association at Santa Rosa California. Anteco sired by Electioneer and dam Columbine by A W Richmond, a full brother of Antevolo. The sale featured 61 trotters totaling $142,000 with Bell Boy toping at $51,000 the highest price ever paid for a horse in America trotter or thoroughbred. Numerous horses fetched thousands from buyers in Eluma Ohio Lexington Kentucky Nashville and other cities.
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A. Browne & Co
Kalamazoo
Mich
M. R. Bissell
Grand Rapids
Anteco
Sonoma County Stock Breeders Association
Santa Rosa
Cal
Electioneer
Columbine
A. W. Richmond
Antevolo
Bell Boy
J. H. Clark
Elmira
N. Y
Robert McGregor
T. C. Jefferson
Lexington
Alice Wilkes
Kid Wilkes
M. Overton
Lyle Wilkes
George Wilkes
C. P. Creil
Danville
Tullahoma
Almont
C. Lyne
Windom
Wenonah
Florida
J. Middleton
Shelbyville
Nannete
Rol McGregor
Mosher & Secor
Galesburg
Sir Wilkes
J. Stevens
Sherman
Tex
Witherspoon
Harold, Peters & Scobby
J. . Sterling
Red Wilkes
J. W. Kalan
Locustwille
Four Corners
Mambrino
A. Spobt
Mamie
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W. T. Turner
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Cincinnati
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Christman Brothers
Nicholasville
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New York
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Jennie Wilkes
G. C. Walker
Thornleaf
Young Jim
A. J. Alexander Woodburn
Stud
Blanche Patchen
J. FE. Maddox
Sally _ Southworth
J. A, Clark
Brunswick
N. J
Vandalia Wilkes
George
Gros-Grain and Grog in American Notes and Queries
The piece traces gros-grain silk to grog via Edward Vernon, highlighting his naval career from the Porto Bello campaign of 1739, his popularity in the American colonies, and his Mount Vernon connection, while noting his fall from favor for harsh discipline and a selective mercy toward his sailors.
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Staffordshire
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George Rooke
Charles Wager
West Indies
Mediterranean
Penryn
Falmouth
Spain
Caribbean
Gulf Ofexico
Porto Bello
Europe
Potomac
Washington
Mount Vernon
Admiralty
Old Grog and the Grogram Cloak Nickname Origins
The passage recounts how a shipboard habit of walking the quarter deck in a grogram cloak earned the nickname Old Grog. It explains grogram as a heavy silk and wool fabric, derived from gros-grain, and notes the term’s French origins and maritime usage aboard the Bedford during the Porto Bello capture.
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Bedford
Porto Bello
Jack Taron
France
Noted New York sportsman Kingsbury and a close encounter with a stag
Albany readers recall Kingsbury, a famed New York sportsman, who while hunting in Sullivan county, startled when a large deer bounded toward him, knocking his hat off. In a flash he dropped his gun, grabbed a stone, and threw it at the animal, missing as the deer escaped.
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Society of Sons of the Revolution
Washington
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New York
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Hamilton
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Cal
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Hungary
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Consumption Cure Promise From I A Slocum
A reader letter to the editor claims a positive remedy for consumption and offers two free bottles to readers who send their addresses. I A Slocum of 118 Pearl Street, New York, signs the note.
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I. A. Slocum
M. A
Pearl St
New York
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