Prohibition Debate Roils Massachusetts Politics
Massachusetts grapples with the Prohibitory Liquor Law as fall elections approach. The temperance movement divides over whether to ban lager beer and cider, while anti prohibitionists push repeal. Clergy, liquor buyers, and German voters shape a tense public mood, with Lowell showing unusual cross group support for prohibition. Morning Star notes this as a major social experiment observed from abroad.
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Nigri
Santa Maria Capua
Massachusetts
Boston
New England
W. B. Spooner
Massachusetts Temperance Alliance
Commonwealth
Ous
Lowell
Morning Star
Correspondence on Mr Arnold and the cultivated class
A reader rebukes Mr Arnold’s letter and the self-styled cultivated class. He argues practical knowledge often surpasses learned refinements and highlights the value of mother wit in daily life and in religious political and commercial affairs.
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Matthew Arnold
Arnold
Strangers in Worship and Hymnbook Uniformity
A correspondent argues for uniform use of Congregational Hymnbooks in major Tyne and Wear towns and the North of England, noting the benefit to visitors. He cites widespread practice in Congregational or Independent churches and appeals for courtesy to visitors from all denominations.
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Tyne and Wear
England
Question on Wesleyan Hymns Usage in Churches
In a letter from Sunderland dated August 16 1869 WM Wight asks if Wesleyans use Wesleyan Hymns in all their churches and notes weekly offerings and free sittings as examples of voluntary principle presented to visitors. The inquiry reflects church practices and the free church ethos of the period.
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WM. Wight
Sunderland
P.S
Wesley
Poisoning scare and string of urban tragedies across England
Reports describe a Devon junket poisoning near Honiton, a serious collision at Tinsley freighting injuries, a Gateshead murder by a 67 year old shoemaker, street robbery in Fleet Street, an Old Kent Road assault and burglary, a Gretna Green murder, and a Barnet rail crash killing guard Henry South with two workers injured.
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Mackarness
Honiton
Tinsley
Sheffield
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Company
Gateshead
Crow
Gough Square
Fleet-street
Johnson’s Court
Elephant and Castle
Lambeth
Gretna-green
Henry Morphett
John Castledine
Royal Free Hospital
Gray’s-inn-road
Murphett
Castledine
Henry South
Dublin Will Gives 30,000 to Trinity College
The Great Irish Witl Cast case quickly disposed of. Judge Law son summed up on Tuesday and the jury found a verdict validating the will. The 30,000 to be bequeathed to Trinity College, Dublin, by Lady Esmonde is thus bestowed. The THIRTY-FIFTH Report of the Commissioners of National Education in Ireland has been published.
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Witl
Lawson
Trinity College
Dublin
Lady Esmonde
Commissioners of National Education
Ireland
Educational and religious notes from the era
The report records an increase in schools from 6520 to 6586 and in rolls from 913198 to 967563 with over 7 percent in Established Church, more than 80 percent Roman Catholics and about 11 percent Presbyterians. It covers election petition costs, University College appointments, a Scotch marriage law debate, and widespread church action against Sunday liquor sales with multiple denominations pledging memorials and deputations to the Premier.
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Braprorp
Ripley
Forster
M.P
University CoLieck
London
George Grote
Sheldon Amos
Inner Temple
William Alexander Hunter
Middle Temple
J. W. Willis Band
Lincoln’s Inn
Medical College
Epsom
R. Palmer
Scotland
John
Mary
Dalrymple
Central Association
Lancashire and Cheshire Baptist Association
G. T. Kemp
Liverpool
Dr. Phillips
Hereford
O. D. Davies
M.A
R. Davies
Morgan Jones
A. Simner
Bible Christian Conference
Bristol
John Gammon
Chatham
T. W. Bourne
Plymouth
J. B. Vanstone
W. B. Reed
Methodist New Connexion Conference
Halifax
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