Old South Church Visit and Anecdotes From Boston
Bill Nye tours the Old South Meeting House in Boston praising its history and vowing to preserve it. The feature recalls Franklin Whitefield Warren and two centuries of events, contrasts past oppression with present resilience, and notes a $400000 fundraising goal for preservation. A separate hotel anecdote relays a Virginia tale of a quack doctor offering compressed air cures for consumption, ending in tragedy.
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Old South Meeting House
Boston
Old South Society
Wmeeting
Norton
John Norton
King's Handbook of
Lai
Benjamin Franklin
Whitefield
Warren
Old South
Massachusetts
Plymouth Rock
Philadelphia Times
Continental
Pennsylvania Hospital
Caves of
Luray
Virginia
Rockbridge County
Lexington
Surecure
Mayest
Hoe
Howard's Letter to Brooks and Beecher Seen in Times Memoir
A Brooklyn Times writer recalls a 1862 to 1864 scene linking Henry Ward Beecher Preston Brooks and Charles Sumner whip politics. The account centers on Beecher's stirring Tabernacle speech at a New York meeting and John Van Buren's supportive reception, with reminiscences of Beecher's influence and the era's abolitionist fervor.
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New York
Charles Francis Adams
van Buren
Henry Ward Beecher
Prince John van Buren
Stillman Conant
John Swinton
the Times
Beecher
Mr. Raymond
Raymond
Gladstone
Bismarck
Cleveland
Beechers
Tabernacle
Plymouth Church
Republican Party
Jncoln
Plymouth
Lincoln
England
Exeter Hall
Lasse
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Strann
Brooklyn
Washington
Conant
New England
Charles Sumner
Senate
United States
Peau Ries Sumner
Preston Brooks
Brooks
Universal Civilization
New York City
Broadway Tabernacle
William M. Evarts
Daniel Lord
John van Buren
Prince John
Victoria
St. James
Mr. Beecher
Evarts
Lord
Father
Ned Underhill
Theodore Tilton
Henry J. Raymond
Popuar
Sydney Howard Gay
The
Tribune
Frederick Hudson
Herald
Tilton
Philadelphia
Magne the Dominie
Noblesse
Hou Beecher
Times
Twenty-third Street
Canal
Prince Streets
Guild
Metropolitan
Sim Leland
Warren
Less Wine Consumed Now
The New York Sun notes club, hotel, and restaurant managers report harder times cutting wine use. Treasury data via Bradstreet show foreign wine imports by year from 1875 to 1883, with declines in quantity and value overall. Imports rose through 1883 amid revival, then fell to near 1880 levels, with expectations of a further drop in the current year.
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New York Sun
Treasury Department
Bradstreet’s
Malta Life Under Colonial Labor and Leisure
A travel sketch portrays Malta as laboring island where workers endure sixteen hour days and weekly stipends around 150 dollars. No theatre or circus exists, amusements are feast day candy pleasures, while evenings offer sea basin baths for five dollars weekly living, yet four years may blur identity like a catamaran or blind fish.
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Washington Republican
Island of
Malta
It’s Pleasant to Try Anyhow Parlor Kissing Tale
A Somerville Journal item notes kissing as a pleasing act that can briefly redden a girl's lips. The anecdote describes a kiss lifting color up to the forehead when a mother unexpectedly enters the parlor as the kiss begins near the doorway.
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Somerville Journal
Whist Penalties and Problems in a Social Game
Questions on enforcing penalties in social whist draw mixed views. A proper game rewards focus and rule use while social chatting harms interest. A pocket guide from Boston Albany railroad offers whist rules and a challenging problem with multi-solution tricks from Boston and Westerly contributors.
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Boston & Albany Railroad
Nervous Debility and Vitality Cure Ad from Marshall
Nervous, debilitated men receive a free thirty day trial of Dr Dye’s Celebrated Voltaic Belt with Electric Suspensory Appliances for speedy relief and permanent cure of nervous debility and manhood loss. Complete restoration guaranteed. Illustrated pamphlet and terms freely mailed by Voltaic Belt Co Marshall Mich.
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Bill Nye
Old South Church
Atlantic Seaboard
Jimson
Howard
Abraham Lincoln
James Mix
James B. Mix
New York Post Office
Nanon
Aronson Brothers
Sadie Martinet
Carleton
Wilson
Sir Arthur Sullivan
Ned Rice
Bijou
Dixey
General Barton
Miles
Fall River
George L. Connor
Fiskian
Mme. Khea
Fleischmallin
New Walnut Theatre
Ames Morrissey
Sardou
Pangborn
Z. K. Pangborn
General Schouler
Atlas Authority
Colonel Rogers
Journal
Bee
Broadway
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Frank Thomson
Road
Sam Carpenter
Cunard
Irene Perry Erst
de Grimm
Louis Quatorze
St. Louis
Liebig Company
Mr. Cook
Messrs
C. H. Clark
J. G. Shackley
West Brookfield
Mass
O. H. Williams
Westerly
Charles C. Hoyt
Crreeseeeseq
Alexander
Sedan
Paris
Emperor Alexander
Tam
Russia
Bonaparte
Eisnach
Moscow
James Allerton
Port Jervis
N. Y
Isaac Allerton
Sanday
Raeio
Ayer
A. B. Deming
Atchison, Kans
Ira Eno
Dale, Ky
J. H. Cushing
Brownsville
Texas
Edward E. Curtis
Rutland, Vt
J. Francis Browne
DR. J. C. Ayer & CO
Lowell, Mass
U.S
Hudson Street
Lalbany Press
Knickerbocker
Peter O. Eisenford
Palatine
Adies & White House
Kindtever
Root
Pearl St
Winchester
Drusgiste
We Sh & CO
J. W_REEVES
Chatham Ste
F. C. Fowler
Moodus
Sudwly
Prem
iNew England Medical Institute
Tremont Row
Lanna
Aes
Marston Bolus
Marston Remedy CO
H. Treskow
West 14Th Street
Wmcarsuwenan
Luft-ring Huity
Slocum
L. L. May & CO
Rochester
Wydt
San Luis Park
Col
Addres Colorado Loan and Trust Co
Denver
Alist
Fred
Rey Peng
DR. Ward & CO
Louisiana
Marsh
Quincy, Mich
the National Co
Dey St
N.Y
John H. McAlvin
Lowell
Newburyport
Horthand
Stenographia KO School
Circus
Lars
Buffalo
Rm C Whitney Nurserpian
GLOBE
Grover Cleveland
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