Watering Place Life and Its Moral Contrast in Society
A 19th century critique describes American watering places as refuge from work yet breeding extravagance and moral risk. It notes leisure life centered on bathing, dancing, eating, and social mixing among classes, with clergy, lawyers, doctors, and gamblers dining and socializing together, while politicians plot and public life blends into a democratic melee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society of Friends Jong
Watering-Plove
Foreign News Summary From Aug 5 to Aug 18
A weekly digest of telegrams notes Parliament closes, the Queen thanks the US for Fenian raid action, and the Atlantic cable’s success. Reports say Austria and Italy armistice, Empress of Mexico in Paris seeking Maximilian aid, Prussia rebuffs French frontier demands, and renewed Italian Austrian armistice for four weeks. Plans for a British North American confederation and intercolonial railroad loan are announced.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forman
Ocean Telegraph
Lexpos
United States
Canada
Napoleon
Prussia
France
Loxpow
Austria
Italy
Venetia
Mexico
Paris
Maximilian
Rhine
London
Berlin
Russia
Cronstadt
Loxpon
North America
Intercolonial
Halifax
Grand Trunk Railway
Benin
Council of
Sate
Germany
Woman or the War. Heroic Rhode Island tale and a court scene
The excerpt previews a volume by Mesars 3S Stanton & Co. on Mrs. Kady Brownell and her Civil War heroism, noting steel portraits and wood paper printing. It also recounts George Brown's burglary case in New York Court, where his wife, seven weeks married, pleads for him as he is sent to the penitentiary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mesars 3S
Stanton & Co
Hartford, Conn
Frank Moore
Kady Brownell
Robert Brownell
Providence
Rhode Island Infantry
Salem
Wm. Coggewell
Avon
N. Y
Henry M. Naglee
Mary L. Schell
California
Joy
Bradford Street
New Work Nail Letter Exposes Police Corruption
From New York dated August 15, 1866 the writer details alleged corruption in the Bristol Police Detective Squad. He claims detectives exchanged bribes to release thieves and counterfeiters, cites a $40 payoff, and notes later investigations reveal a wider pattern of malfeasance among officials earning $1,600 yearly. The writer promises more, but withholds specifics to avoid compromising justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Bprrog
Bristol
Police Department
R.A. M
Providence
Advices from Matamoras and Atlantic Updates
Advices dated August 14 from Matamoras via New Orleans report the French evacuated Monterey on the 28th last with guns and ammunition destroyed. Charleston customs officials on the 12th served a smuggling charge on the British bark B F Shaw. bail denied and ship to sail. The yacht Alice, 28 tons, Capt Clark, reached the British coast 19 days from Nahant Massachusetts on the 29th. Samuel Brown, a Boston carpenter, killed by a fall at the Old Colony depot project. The first bale of this year’s cotton arrived at Galveston on the 4th with a silver pitcher premium. The Atlanta Telegraph Company spent over 4 1/2 million dollars in failed attempts to lay a telegraph cable.
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Matamoras
New Orleans
Monterey
Charleston
B. F. Shaw
Havanna
Alice
Clark
Nahant
Mass
Gap Samuel Brown
Old Colony Road
Boston
National Mass Convention agenda and contentious commentary
The piece describes a Tuesday assembling of a National Mass Convention with Gen. John A. Dix as temporary chairman and early resolutions. It notes reassembly on Wednesday, a permanent president named as Sen. Doolittle, and Vallandigham’s surrender for the public good amid mixed editorials from Philadelphia and Norwich papers. It also mentions broader coverage from Boston and Houston about Yankee opinions, slave labor trials, western floods, Leavenworth coal prospects, a New Hampshire currency counterfeit, and a Saratoga letter remarking on belles.
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Porrapetrnia
John A. Dix
Doolittle
Wisconsin
Illinois
New York
Norwich Bulletin
Philadelphia
John IL Swift
Boston
Vallandigham
Siedia
Boston Daily Advertiser
Jeff Davis
United States
Monument to Co Colt to rise sixty feet of Scotch granite
A tall monument to the memory of Co Colt, famed in pistol history, will be a sixty foot Scotch granite structure costing about twenty five thousand dollars. Its base will be twelve by twelve feet and twenty two inches thick, weighing roughly twenty five tons.
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Co. Colt
Greene
Pittsfield
Mass
Berkshire Medical College
Stevenson
Albany
Sunday School Excursion to Rocky Point by Steamer M S Allison
Members and friends of the Catholic Congregational Sunday School of this town enjoyed a pleasant trip last Tuesday to Rocky Point aboard the steamer M S Allison. The day was cool and breezy with a cloudy sky, the captain routed the voyage past the Naval School Ships, and the return was safe and timely. Children recalling the day will look forward to another similar outing next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catholic Congregational Sunday School
Rocky Point
M. S. Allison
Naval School
Pearce's Grove Festival and Cram Bake
A festival and Cram Bake will be held at Pearce's Grove Swanzea near Luther's corner for the Village Episcopal Church. It marks the fifteenth annual festival and invites friends from Bristol and vicinity to enjoy a pleasant event if weather permits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearce’s Grove
Swanzea
Bristol
Luther's Corner
High School Festival Profits Honored by YMCA Board
Art Mantina of the YMCA Board of Managers presented unanimous resolutions praising the High School for a festival that raised a handsome sum. The board expressed gratitude and hoped the effort encourages continued good works, with a copy sent to the Principal and published in the Briston Phen. The Reynolds Manufacturing Mill halted since Tuesday for steam boiler repairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Art Mantina
Young Men's Christian Association
Evenimaz
Briston Phenie
Reynold’s Manufacturing Company
Naval School Squadron Visits Newport Harbor
The ships of the Naval School Squadron visited Newport, drawing close to the harbor mouth on Tuesday and part remained until Wednesday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naval School Squadron
Newport
Wilcox's Pot and Spruce Beer Sold on Hope Street
The beverage that cheers the drooping spirits up and maketh glad the heart of man is Wilcox's pot and Spruce beer, made and sold by him at his store on Hope street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilcox
Hope Street
Filthy tenement house reveals mother and five children
New York police uncovered a perilous tenement housing a mother and five children in deplorable conditions. The youngest child had died on August 1, and the mother remained intoxicated, failing to arrange a proper burial or removal of the body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Capitalists bid for Cobb's Island off Northampton Va
Baltimore capitalists offer 100000 dollars for Cobb's Island off Virginia's coast near Northampton. They plan to develop it as a watering place if the purchase succeeds. The owner bought the island years ago for 150 dollars in money and fifty sacks of salt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Cobb’s Island
Northampton
Fire at New Bedford house led to missing bed money
A residence occupied by Wm. P. Robinson at New Bedford caught fire Thursday night. In the confusion Mr. R. tossed a large sum of money from the bed window and, as of last report, cannot locate it. The event centers on the fire and the vanished cash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope and
Bradford
Hydraulion Company
Wm. P. Robinson
New Bedford
Mr. R
Portland Seeks Tax Relief After Fire Loss
The Portland sugar house company seeks five years of exemption after a blaze caused about one million dollars in damages. A congressional act may allow Portland to import building materials free of duty for one year, an estimated 200000 dollars benefit to the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Portland Sugar House Company
Chicago Man Offers $14000 Peace Tax to Treasury
A Chicago man sends fourteen thousand dollars to the Treasury Department urging acceptance as his peace offering to God and rightful payment to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Treasury Department
United States
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Galveston
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Houston
Pierce Butler
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Freedmen's Bureau
Ife
la Crosse
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Minnesota
Wis
Coat
Kansas
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Leavenworth
Portsmouth Chronicle
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Fessenden
Saratoga
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Jay Cooke
Kenyon College
Ohio
Dr. Bronson
Episcopal Church
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Trumbull Gallery
New Haven
Antwerp
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Charleston News
General Sherman
Thaddeus Stevens
Memphis
J. Wilkes Booth
Philadelpheyanata St. Louis
Tybee Island
Savannah
Monroe
Harmony Grove
Framingham
Henry Watson
Gen. Banks
Trenton Gazette
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Weat Point
Chattahoochee River
James Baird
Gibson
Quebec
Poughkeepsie
Howard
Freedmen’s Bureau
Gattyburg
Jackson
Nashville
Syracuse N. Y
City
Virginia
Washington Republican
Norfolk
Isabella L Carlisle
Plymouth
Congress Spring
Stratoga
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Penn
Dublin
Cambridge
Dennis McCarthy
Singleton
Salina Co
Missouri River
General Butler
Cape Ann
Pennsylvania
Waterbury
Santa Anna
Springfield
Local Intelligence
Ridley & Co
Stuart
T. Griffin, Jr
Griffith
Ourself
G. A. Pierce
Bailey's Patent
Marblehead
Tuwo Hall
Francis Hall
New York Commercial Advertiser
S. C
Emma
Sandwich Islands
England
Hawai
J. Munro Taylor
Phalon & Son
PR. Martin
Bower
Franklin Street
Christaboro
J Oristadoro
Astor Home
Tobias
Cort Street
Brandreth
Draggists
Pag
Brandreyil
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