Temperance Sermon Highlights National Society Role and Goals
Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler extols the National Temperance Society and Publication House, detailing its educational mission to reform conduct and curb drunkenness. He cites the society’s history, leadership, publications, and efforts in schools and communities while urging continued Christian effort and conscience-based reform.
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Theodore L. Cuyler
D. D
Dr. Cuyler
National Temperance Society and Publication House
Mark Hopkins
Massachusetts
New York
New Jersey
Reade Street
Westbrook
Ireland
Brooklyn
Republic
Georgia
South Carolina
Maryland
William E. Dodge
Benjamin Rush
Lyman Beecher
Theodore Frelinghuysens
John Goughs
Wilfrid Law
Mark Hopkinses
William E. Dodges
God
The Great Evil and Alcohol Costs in America
Analyzes yearly alcohol consumption and expenses in the United States. Estimates 72 million gallons of domestic distilled liquors and a $1.188 billion annual outlay including beer and cigars, affecting every man woman and child. Notes reliance on careful investigations and cites large national losses.
Temperance items and reform notes across nations
A survey of temperance advocacy reports from Paris to New Hampshire and England. It notes a high share of inebriates in asylums, calls for abstinence pledges, government school bans on tobacco in France, temperance education in Oakland, and a Boston trial of Dr James A McDonough for drunkenness.
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Paris
J. G. HotLtanp
British Medical Association
Roberts
France
Men of Science
New Hampshire State Temperance Union
Concord
England
Great Britain
Liberal Party
Chicago Standard
W.C.T. U. of
Oakland
Cal
Boston
James A. McDonough
Trail
Harvard Medical School
United States
Lirr
Frank Mahedy
Henry Street
Frank
John Lee
Goerck Street
John
Oin
Foon
Essex Market
Justice Pattison
Evening Telegram
J. G. Root
Pearl &T
New York
Imaginative Mechanism Producing Color Sound in Darkness
A speculative idea by Professor Croom Robertson describes a hypothetical rod rapidly spinning in a dark room. As rotation speeds rise from sixteen to twenty times per second the man hears a deepening tone, then silence returns and heat and colored light emerge at extreme speeds, ending in total sensory darkness.
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Prof. Croom Rolertson
Gullibility and a Prankster Officer in Nancy
The excerpt recounts De Fortia Piles, a regimental officer at Nancy, who crafted letters signed Caillot Duval to various persons. Recipients replied with absurd but earnest responses, including a Paris saddler proposing a marriage for his daughter and a bookseller offered a monarchic volume for 3000 livres plus a pension. The anecdotes illustrate enduring credulity.
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Nancy
de Fortia Piles
Caillot Duval
Hussars
Caillot
Praim
Paris
Circumstantial Evidence in Boston Murder Case
A Boston murder case hinges on circumstantial proof after a drunk suspect’s arrest yields a theater programme fragment matching wound wadding. The autopsy confirms the link, and the pieces fit to convict.
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Boston
Fall Fives Report on Advancing Wife's Bonnet
A brief item notes a dispute over an advance payment of 19 dollars for a bonnet. The exchange references a wife and a contentious bill, with terse phrasing hinting at a domestic or local commerce matter.
Bell on a Pole Wakeup Trick for Sleepy Fisherman
A Florida Herald report describes a burly Black laborer sleeping by a mill dock with a bell and rod baited to wake upon a fish bite. The device, explained as a trick to avoid police attention, lets the sleeper rest until a bite sounds the bell. The man claims the setup keeps him safe and allows him to sleep until a catch occurs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hardy
Vinzant
Florida Herald
Tillage and Fertilization: Manure Must Precede Tillage
Agricultural note from the New York Times discusses tillage as an exhaustive soil process. It argues tillage oxidizes and decomposes matter, but warns poor land must be fed first. without manure, tillage harms soil health and eventually ruins it like a starved horse.
Conflicting Medical Views and Quips Across Eras
A collage of quotations from physicians and observers on medical practice, remedies, and vaccination. Notable remarks from Mott Rush Prank Cooper Evans and Dio Lewis emphasize critique of medicine, reliance on hygiene, skepticism toward drugs, and a jab at coroner conventions in vaccinated cases.
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Valentine Mott
Rush
Philadelphia
Prank
Astley Cooper
Evans
Edinburgh
Scotland
Dio Lewis
Warner
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P. Pease
J. E. Terry
C. Glark
Cambridge
Ohio
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Mason & Hamlin Organ & Piano
New Orleans
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