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Newspaper
The Philanthropist
Location
Cincinnati, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 23, 1838
Page
8
A biblical voice condemns the city for its sins and warns that grace has faded. The rain gray declares a barren graft will replace the once mighty, urging sinners to heed divine wrath and turn from transgression.
A Cincinnati Chronicle correspondent reports disruptions surrounding recent neighborhood horse races. Disorderly conduct, thefts totaling thousands, numerous arrests, and several fatalities marked the event week. The piece notes drunkenness, fights, and moral decline while contrasting with occasional praise for honest outcomes amid chaos.
The author questions whether race tracks corrupt society and endangers women. It argues that racing venues invite vice and taint female virtue, urging Christian ladies to reconsider attending such events and to reflect on the moral impact on their character.
A new suburban race course in the city’s outskirts opened with a first meeting early this month and plans another on November 6. Reports describe gamblers and gamblers’ allies, pickpockets, turf spectators, and betting while praising the beauty of racing and a horse named Sweet Maria beating Black Sal. Ohio law and public sentiment doubt this amusement’s acceptability and question the sponsors and patrons.
An English lord helps a farmer whose crop was ruined by hounds and winter trampling. The farmer returns £50 when crop regrows, but the lord already rewards him with £100, urging honesty and care for family as a lesson for his eldest son.
An extensive ad lists numerous farms and country seats for sale within miles of town and along the Ohio River. Properties include 80 acre and 166 acre farms with cultivation, brick houses, barns, orchards, and water access, plus a 270 acre stock farm with dairy and market garden potential. Also offered are smaller tracts near the city, city houses, estate sales, and mortgage/foreign money terms via Thomas Emery, estate and money agent.
A broad discussion on medicines claims and rival suspicions, praising some physicians while warning against slanders from nostrism makers. The text notes widespread use by more than 600 physicians, loyal support from humane professionals, and attacks from adversaries. Also advertises hardware imports and a store sale at No 18 Main Street.
Emery and Howells advertise their relocation to a new stand on Main Street near Front, West side. They offer 500 barrels and many coopers wares, groceries, and a broad stock including chums, tubs, buckets, brooms, baskets, cigars, wooden bowls, mats, tar, and more. They invite exchanges for country produce and request sugar.
New titles from New York arrive for sale at the Ohio Anti-Slavery office. Rights of Colored Men to Suffrage Citizenship and Trial by July offers facts and authorities with notes for 25 cents. Remarks by Henry B. Stanton on slavery hearings in 1837 price 12 1 2 cents. Spirit of Humanity and Essence of Morality collected from enlightened writers with engravings. Anti-Slavery Almanacs for 1839 listed.
The subscriber manufactures a general assortment of Tin Ware and many housekeeping articles. A wide range of stoves available, including Gold's Union Oven, tested for bake efficiency. Russia Iron Grates made to order. Wholesale and retail on Fifth Street between Main and Walnut.
A fragmented roster of individuals and locations across Indiana Illinois Michigan Rhode Island New York Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. The text enumerates names such as John D Jones James Morrow Elizur M Leonard Daniel C Steele Josiah Cady A W Townsend and others alongside towns and counties including Randolph County Indiana Monmouth Illinois Chautauco New York City Providence Pittsburgh Boston and Worcester.
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