New York Letter Reflects on Past and Present City Life
Broadbrim's New-York Letter recalls Gardiner Spring's church, Clinton Hall, Park Theatre, and a vanished world as Manhattan grew. It notes Times, World, and Tribune centers, Tweed era threats, and rises of World and Brooklyn transit, with social sketches of Wall Street figures, trials, and urban decay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wey
Sence
Coshocton Ave
New-York
May 6Th
Beckman
New York Tribune and
Sun
World
Mail and Express and Evening Post
The
Herald
Telegram
New York Times
Gardner Spring
Israel
Manhattan
Tammany Hall
Empire Club
Clinton Hall
Lloyd Garrison
Wendell Phillips
Park Theatre
George Frederick Cook
Edmund Kean
Junius Brutus Booth
William Simpson
New York
William Windust
Greenwood
the Tribune
Brooklyn
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Russell Sage
Mr. Gould
Jim Fisk
Vermont
Stewart
Broadway
Pacific Railroad
Mr. Whitney
Grant
West Point
Bob Lee
United States
Douglass
Lincoln
Ilinois
Senate
Webster
Clay
John Quincy Adams
Old Massachusetts
Corner Stones Polished for Daughters in Grace Church Sermon
A Grace Church sermon by Rev Dr Davidson Poalmogg urges young ladies to be corner stones of family and nation, polishing body mind and heart. He stresses balance, warns of female fragility, calls for strength and beauty, and condemns widespread infirmity among American women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grace
Davidson Poalmogg
David
Young Ladies to be Polished in Heart Mind and Body
The speech urges young women to build sound health through disciplined living, cultivate a refined intellect, and govern the heart with purity. It stresses education as essential, warns against excess, and argues a virtuous, polished character makes them cornerstones of family, society, and the nation. The piece notes an old state bell from Ohio’s first capital arriving in Columbus for display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tlousis
Amon
State House
Ohio
Columbus
Norwich
Conn
Chillicothe
Senator Reed
State Library
Bethlehem
Leatherwood Valley
Charley
Charles
Coshocton
Sunday Schools Expand Amid Frontier Faith in Breathitt County
The American Sunday School Union reports 3,500 new Bible schools with 24,000 teachers and 213,788 children. Missionaries work in 3 states and territories, boosting local faith and community reform despite historic violence in Breathitt County Kentucky. A 1853 Sabbath School effort spurred a church-building surge in Jackson and Frenchburg, with Presbyterians and Methodists organizing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Sunday School Union
Union Bible
Kentucky
Breathitt
Synod of
Breathin County
Jackson
Cam Creek
Frenchburg
Menifey County
Court House
Church of Si
Miss Cleveland on Temperance and the White House Influence
Elizabeth Cleveland cites Mrs. Hayes banishing wine from White House entertainments and argues that women can curb wine drinking by setting social norms at home and in their communities. The piece cites General Grant’s stance against drinking and urges girls to influence temperance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elizabeth Cleveland
White House
Youth’s Temperance Banner
J. G. Holland
Mrs. Hayes
Dr. Holland
Washington
Evarts
Sle
Lord
English
Count
Countess French
Baron
Baroness German
Grant
The Power of a Woman to Temper Society’s Drink
A wartime style exhortation urges women to use their influence to curb alcohol in society. It argues that men respond to social disapproval and that a strong, bright angel of temperance must guide girls to frown upon drinking. It condemns social drinking as unfashionable and harmful to communal virtue.
Miss Shoemaker Wins Quick Marriage at Bakery
At a Des Moines bakery, Miss Mary Shoemaker charmed young Loren F. Bishop with a playful dare. He proposed marriage after her flirtatious invitation. They obtained a marriage license at the County Clerk’s office and wed before sunset.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bes Moines
Mary Shoemaker
Loren F. Bishop
Loren
Irregular health cures and a sad death report
A column of medical quackery and a coroner's inquest notes. A Philadelphia death from morphia in cough syrup prompts endorsement of Red Star Cough Cure as vegetable and opiate free. Patient testimonials tout Brown's Iron Bitters and Missler's Lord Bitters for debility and loss of appetite. Ayers Cathartic Pills marketed as a cure for chronic constipation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Sam'l K. Cox
Washington
James Donaghy
Zanesville
Ohio
Missler
Also Mentioned on This Page
Broadbrim
New York ‘Times
Times Company
Times
Tur
New York World
Bartholdi
Scoville
Speth
Meyer
Lords
Scovilles
Daniel Lord
Wall Street
General Grant
General Badeau
Buddenseik
Dick Short
Phelan
Captain Phelan
Short
K. c
Rascal Fish
Sally Reber
Lam
Peter Tozel
Papapey
Patsce Cisnarex
Schonhausen
Altmark
Varzin
Pomerania
Prince Bismarck
Friedrichsruhe
Lauenburg
Oco
Prince’ Bismarck
Frednchsruhe
Newark
Homer
Lickings County
North American Review
Charles Dudley Warner
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
William A. Hammond
F. M. King
Kate J. Jackson
Dr. Bull
Brown
AL J Pickrell
Ennis
Texas
Ron Bitters
Tua
Ely
Hall
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