Law of Human Progress highlighted by Sumner oration
The Cambridge Chronicle reviews Mr. Sumner’s Union College address on the law of human progress. It traces its origins from Vico to Descartes and Turgot, argues for continual improvement of individuals, societies, and nations, and praises Christianity as the religion of progress guiding peaceful reform and universal justice.
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Germany
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Pascal
France
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Mr. S
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Michael Angoto
Thomas Attempt
Mount Auburn improves as Cambridge notes and cholera spreads
The period piece reports Mount Auburn's spring bloom and ongoing improvements including a new stockade fence project costing up to 10,000 dollars. It also mentions Rev. J W Pannen’s voyage to England, a new Cambridgeport postmaster Henry Thayer, and concerns about the Charleton bridge at Puison Point. Cholera outbreaks are cited with fatalities in Boston New York and New Orleans.
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Henry Thayer
Cambridgeport
Calvin Morse
Thayer Iss
Coffee Adulteration Warned as Ground Corn Is Used
The New York Saw reports most ground coffee sold by grocers is adulterated with harnt and ground White Ohio Horse Tooth Dent corn. Benj Simmons of Cambridge and Charles streets Boston enforces strict rules to guarantee pure coffee only by not selling other roasted goods, avoiding adulterated articles. His approach has drawn favorable results for customers. Acquittal granted in the John W. Crafts conspiracy to wreck the ship Franklin case.
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Thomas Suenarp
John A. Albro
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New England Primer
Number
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Boston M. D
Washington
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Cambridge Musical Association
Fire destroys Moree barn and injures youth
A small barn on Magazine Street owned by A. P. Moree burned Saturday around 11. About $100 loss. The fire was intentional by an unknown person. An out of town engine caused crowd danger. a 16 year old boy was injured. Also noted: a man died near the Court House on Monday night. Papers found show he had just arrived in Boston. A special term of the Supreme Judicial Court opened Monday for Riley’s highway robbery and murder trial in Natick.
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Wilde
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New Publications and Sermonaries Highlight Boston Book Trade
A catalog of recent religious works from Boston publishing houses. John A. Albro praises Shepard’s memory and biography in Cambridge, while J. P. Lesley’s Calvinistic critique stirs ministerial debate. A True to catch a Sunsram offers a moral tale of contentment through energy and charity.
Memoirs of Rev Jossex Buckmimeren and Son Buckminster
Eliza Buckminster Lee publishes a two volume memoir of Rev Joseph Buckminster and his son Rev Joseph Stevens Buckminster. The work, issued by Crosby Nichols in Boston with Cambridge sales by John Bartlett, notes the remarkable bond of father and son who shared gospel ministry yet held divergent speculative beliefs.
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Joseph Stevens Buckminster
Eliza Buckminster Lee
Boston
Crosby & Nichols
Cambridge
John Bartlett
Buckminster Memoir Celebrates Family Faith and Tragedy
The memoir portrays a Calvinist father and a zealous son seeking mutual faith. Both revered as Christians, they die within days of each other after a shared illness. Biographer Mrs. Lee uses letters and materials, including a Daniel Webster life, to illuminate their tender, refined lives and influence.
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Boston
A Night Upon the Sound on Long Island Sound voyage
Chronicle correspondent recounts a midnight sail from Allyn's Point to New London aboard Worcester with Knickerbocker accompaniment. The narrative praises the boat, captain, and harbor beacons, then shifts to a critique of penmanship in Central High School and praise for Mr. Smith's philanthropy, promising future notes.
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Boston
Unclear Fragments Reflect Anniversary Week Note
Fragmentary OCR hints at a damp setting and an anniversary week, mentioning the Squire and a person named C. Necx Squasm in a letter-like tone. No coherent event or dates are evident, but the text suggests casual commentary and a minor social detail within a contemporary local context.
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Special Meeting of Common Council May 81 1849
A special council session approved an ordinance adding duties of weighers of hay and other articles and concurred with the prior board on appropriations for schoolhouse repairs. The board increased incidental expenses to 6000, and the city marshal was asked to compel the owners of the Har vard and Columbia street estate to remove a stagnant water nuisance or face enforcement. Adjourned to Tuesday June 12 at 1 to 4 PM.
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Cambridge Mayor Aldermen approve street surveys and budgets
In a May 1649 meeting the Cambridge Mayor and Aldermen adopt orders to survey Holyoke and South streets for grades and boundaries, address nuisance at Harvard and Columbia, and adjust the General year appropriation totaling 66 935 dollars with school funding reduced by 1 000 and fire department up by 2 500. A separate regular session notes petitions for drains and events, and endorses Hosea Jewell’s volunteer engine crew with named candidates. Adjourned to Tuesday evening.
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Lund
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Hosea Jewell and Others That Engine No. Four
S.C. Knight
Francis Sproul
Abish Jones
Wm. Baker
Albert Morris
Langblin
Joke T. Hancock
E. Fraser
E. Cartwright
Akerman
Joke McDonald
L. B. Groves
E. Young
Harding Ball
Geo. Freeman
C. E. Hancock
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Marshal M. Goh
Thomas Welch
Police Court Notes with Several Disorder Occurrences
A sequence of terse police court entries lists Bernard Flggg for drunk and disorderly on Sunday with costs, John Kelly for moderate driving with costs, Jacob Riedel for assault on Alpheus Grant with a fine and costs, Anthony Finn for disorderly conduct with two months in the House of Correction, Ellen McKenney as a common drunkard with months in custody, Mary Finnegan as a common drunkard with one month and Patrick Finnegan in the same category, Owen Bullivan for larceny with one month in the House of Correction, Mary Wayland as idle and disorderly with three months in the House of Correction.
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Jacob Riedel
Alpheus Grant
Anthony Finn
Ellen McKenney
Europe News From Halifax May 26 Dampens Markets
The Europa report from Halifax dated May 26 notes unsettled European political tides and weak commercial signals. French elections favor Socialists and Red Republicans, while Danes and Neapolitans clash and Rome holds against French Naples Spain forces. Conflicts widen with Hungarians pressing Austrians and Russians. French advance near Rome checked at the Tiber Melvian Bridge as Rome resists.
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Melvian Bridge
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