Temperance Reform Compared To Sixteenth Century Martyrs
The Camden Journal argues for a prohibitory liquor law as a necessary evil, asserting the law can abolish the traffic by high licenses and Sunday closure. It questions whether bans raise desire, urges reform, and cites Columbia’s depots and youth as why prohibition is essential for societal rescue.
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Camden Journal
Law and Temperance
Anyne
Calumba
Baechush
Hell
Columbia
Sam
Hay
Newberry
The Prohibition Question in The South Carolinian
An early 19th century letter debates liquor laws and prohibition in Newberry Greenville and Anderson South Carolina communities. The writer challenges observed claims, argues for legal restraint on alcohol sales, and calls for public sentiment to be sustained by statute rather than mere persuasion.
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Messer
Greenville
Anderson
Due West
Newberry
Tom
Uie
Temperco
F Qooral Suasioh
Friends of Temperance
Prohibition Rhetoric at State Temperance Convention
The Boston Herald excerpt rails at wholesale liquor dealers with vivid, moralizing imagery. It argues the wholesale trade corrupts society, stains wealth with blood, and calls for prohibition as a public measure. A Tennessee convention and Nashville prohibitory actions are noted as steps toward restraining liquor sales.
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The
Boston Herald
Banquio
Marble
Hell Upon Earth
Ultra Marine
Croton
Phil, Ledger
Abstinence From Alcohol Boosts Endurance In Heat
Historical notes cite explorers and soldiers asserting abstinence from alcoholic liquors improves tolerance to tropical heat and physical exertion. Accounts include Gar diner in Brazil, Brooke in equatorial environments, Waterton, Dr Daniel and Dr Mosley, plus a Bath Regiment march in India showing fewer illnesses and better marching with teetotal practices.
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Raven
Gardiner
Brazil
Pernambuco
Broil
Fin
Bhors
Tames Brooke
Burhey
Waterton
Daniel
Africa
Doetor Mosley
Indin
Bath
Madras
Secunderabad
India
Reir Iental
Ita Marah
James
Mr) McGrigor
Egypt
Bonaparte
Great Desert
Upper
Temperance Oration by Veteran at Alabama Meeting
A veteran of Napoleon’s armies, Colonel Lewianovsky, aged about seventy, described surviving Egypt and war with no alcohol. He claimed abstinence kept him healthy, citing 6,000 Egypt survivors who avoided spirits. Iowa State Convention May 8 aimed to form a prohibitory law and state alliance to push temperance, humanity, and progress.
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Alabama
Lewianovsky
Napoleon Bonaparte
Egypt
Baron Larry
Iowa
Town City
J. Zephaniah Swift
Esq
Temeras
Kaya
State Journal
A. T. Union
Profanity in Public Debate Critique by Danor Swean
The excerpt condemns oath use as sinful and etiquette violation criticizing profanity in scholarship and public discourse. It argues such language taints a speaker’s stature, taints credibility, and taunts audience, urging scholars to prefer more pertinent eloquence over vulgar slang and rhetorical excess.
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Danor Swean
Sunday liquor sale ruled by Philadelphia judge
The Philadelphia Court of Quarter Sessions, Judge Thompson presiding, ruled against Sunday liquor sales. A defendant charged with keeping a disorderly house and selling liquor without license was found not covered by a license for Sunday sale. The ruling cites Supreme Court precedent and argues that selling on Sunday may be convictable.
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Iuporvan
Llavor
Philadelphia
Thompson
Philadelphia Court of Quarter Sessions
Reed
Supreme Court
Hithey
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
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Napier
66Th
Calcutta
Joan Bain Hospital
Carpenter
United Kingdom Alliance
Bradford
England
Three Kingdoms
Scotland
Ireland
Bong
Hull
Ariol
Amin
Bato
Flo
Stith
Thas
Sons OF Temperance
Titres Mesgahi Dignon
W. Pes J. T. Ballard
Addreen
Z. J. Dehay
Carden
Jan
Rosser & Warren
Charleston, &. C. HY
Central Wharf
Snd
Tao Av. Warren
Browning & Leman
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Charleston
Ingrain
Wilton
ANH Hess
Avery
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Browning
Leman
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Lange
Leonard Thapin
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