Life Stages Then Ends in Death in a Temperance Meeting
A long excerpt traces life's arc from birth to old age and death, interwoven with a temperance pledge signed by 182 residents. It cites social ills from alcohol, condemns unlicensed sale, and recalls historical events. A Detroit Post commentary notes shifting race and abolition-era tensions alongside local moral concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shepherdstown Temperance Society
Sons of Temperance
Karper's Ferry
Webb
Jefferson Avenue
Detroit
Chatham
Douglaes
Brown
Douglas
Kansas
Douglase
George de Baptiste Sloo
de Baptiste
Nat Turner
Virginia
Oseawaloinie
Gnally
Harper's Ferry
Foster
Washington
Deira
Hoase
Congress Street
Detroit Post
Pettibone
Lem
Che
John" Quiely
Mao
East Broadway
Tie
Sid Prose
Twenty Pettibone
Broadway
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R. L. Wysong & Co Duffield
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Abay Store Rouw
A. A. Cook
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B. Harrison
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Fleming's Cheap Cash Store
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Billings
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Meredith Helm
Isaac Strider
Jeane Strider
John Goldeborough
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A. Chapline
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Edsin G. Lee
John Quigley
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J. G. Hurst
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Jonathan Water
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Geo. C. Ewer
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George Byers
Henry M. Lyn Win
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Geo. Th. Hagley
Robert Douglas
Jacob D Wnd
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Lutte McMarran
Maggie Chapline
Ann Butler
Mary Faucet
Mary Baker
Susan Ferrell
Eliza Stevens
Amanda Lickli
Drusilla Ray
Barbara Brade
Lydis Summers
Mary Kretzer
Catharine Foy
Emily Yoort
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John I. Rutherfar
John C. Blackford
Henry C. Engle
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George Shafer
George Freeze
John W, Mitchel
George W. Loyd
John W. Sharer
Lewis Nevil
J. Blue Moore
Eliza Baldo
Harriet Werner
Laura Mareh
Delia Keiser
Susan Lock
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Mary Fouke
Laura Licklider
Elizabeth Gonter
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Virginia Moulder
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A. P. Kerney
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Jacob Ferrell
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Mollie B Keller
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