Adams and Quincy estates shape Wollaston heights
In Hill and Mount Wollaston the Adams and Quincy families anchor the landscape with historic estates and planned limits on occupancy. Ancient wills fund academies and churches while modern developments foreclose liquor shops, parish sites rise, and a Baptist church unfolds as Wollaston grows toward thousands.
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John Quincy Adams
Morton
President’s Hill
Charles Francis Adams
Adams
John Adams
John Hancock
Quincy
Josiah Quincy
Harvard College
Boston
New England
National
Wollaston
A. W
Boston Congregationaliat
Dr. Carpenter Addresses Catholic Unrest on Nature Laws
Dr Carpenter, President of the British Association, defends his address against charges of a theological tone. He argues against Buchner like natural law views, clarifying nature laws as human generalisations and insisting science seeks unity of mind in the universe. He warns Buchner’s ideas spread among young German and French thinkers.
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Carpenter
The
British Association
Eyndall and
Huxley
Germany
Buchner
Clifford
Miss Martineau
Atkinson
France
The New Development of Japan An 1872 Budget
Blackwood discusses Japan s long written history of 2532 years the uninterrupted dynasty since 660 BC and the current emperor as the 122nd. It notes a four year shift from revolution to orderly government and the preparation of a serious national budget for 1872 as a historic first.
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Blackwood
Japan
Nebuchadnezzar
Japan Issues Decrees Expand Foreigner Rights and Clergy Freedoms
The Avenir National reports three Japanese government decrees. First, foreigners gain better standing as the grand library of the ex-Tycoon opens to all, and wages for natives with foreigners in service must be paid in Japanese money. Second, ecclesiastical matters grant priests freedom to choose food, marry, and dress as they wish. These measures may offer lessons for missionaries returning with new truths.
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Japan
America
Europe
Marseilles
England
French War Office
Blackwood
Avenir National
London Water Supply Almanac August clear and pure
Dr Frankland finds August London water mostly clear with low organic impurity across New River East London West Middlesex Grand Junction Chelsea Southwark Lambeth figures. Kent water deemed safe due to chalk springs and minimal organic matter. Dayukut Fireworks feature daylight displays with bombs emitting coloured smoke jets and parachute shapes including fish and birds.
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London
Frankland
Kent Company
New River
East London
West Middlesex
Grand Junction
Chelsea
Southwark
Lambeth
Yokohama Herald
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