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Newspaper
Massachusetts Cambridge Chronicle
Location
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1850
Page
2
A Cambridge reader warns that two citizen classes merit focus the Association for fine music and horticulturists who favor home grape growing. He mocks a real estate ad and questions a house description opposite a businessman, then asks where Cambridge’s city limits reveal the view, ending with a quip on asking questions.
Correspondence from Camtown dated June 4 1850 describes a sandy town with a dirty river street scene, churches schools and a green uniform military company. It notes a water drainage issue, civic debates, and a lively local life plus rail and postal innovations and a Victorian style anecdote about a shell maker and early fire engines.
The Cambridge Chronicle presents the approved design by Louis Dwight and G J F Bryant for a four story central building with three radiating wings. The plan emphasizes separation of sexes, abundant ventilation, and future expansion, with specific layouts for kitchens, dormitories, hospitals, and chapels, plus extensive fire safety features. The piece notes a Sunday ordinance of adoption by Rev. Parker at Charles River and a large Sunday church fellowship.
The piece muses on how wet weather affects morals business and mood, notes bright May scenes in Cambridge and Sweet Auburn, mentions a forthcoming Woman's Rights Convention in Worcester, and derides New York hog-pens removal with mock indignation at pigs.
A survey of recent publications notes Moses Stuart’s Conscience and The Constitution in the abolition debate, plus guides for painting and varnishing from Parwrea's Companion, an illustrated Natura History, and The American Froka. It mentions Cambridge census figures for 1860, a plan to raise Roxbury firemen pay, and a Harvard Street schoolhouse arson attempt with a life sentence potential penalty.
The mayor and board discuss removing projections from Holyoke street and building a common sewer on Hampshire street. Licenses granted to apothecaries and others, repairs to City Hall and schools ordered, burial ground land search authorized, and various police court actions noted alongside a report on Lopez’s expedition and its suppression.
Advices from Mr Campbell show Spaniards hostility to Americans and authorities withholding names or fates of confined members. Havana letters claim four expedition members left at Cardenas were shot. Gen Lopez spoke to Mobile citizens explaining expedition defeat. subordinate officers praised his bravery. L H Catnan will move his Daguerreotype Saloon to Main Street near Universalist Church. At Bright's tavern, trunks were broken and valuables stolen. one suspect named William Jones is tracked. Gould, a boarder, is said to be frightened his hat turned white.
The Steamer America docked at Halifax Monday night and news reached Boston yesterday. Reports from Paris and London describe a tense scene over the French electoral bill, with cabinet unity on London terms and martial law looming. An assassination attempt on the Prussian king at Potsdam alarms Europe while Italy and Austria chart shifting maps. Hungary's troubles, Jesuit admission in Vienna, and amnesty decrees spark more upheaval as Gorman Republics and Lombardy reshuffle. The Detroit Tribune notes Michigan wool shipments totaling 1,709,000 pounds.
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