United States
19th Century Society 

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St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans
Continental Hotel, Philadelphia

 


 
 

 



Corporal Punishment

Corporal punishment
 

Crime
Court of Perth Amboy, New York Gazette, May 16, 1757, 3
New York Supreme Court, New York Journal, Nov. 6, 1766, 2
Court of General Sessions, Charlestown, S.C., New Hampshire Gazette (Portsmouth), March 9, 1770, 2
Convictions for rape of an infant and bestiality, New Haven Connecticut Journal, Dec. 2, 1774, 4
Fearful Record of Southern Atrocities and Horrors, The Liberator (Boston), July 28, 1854
Damning Outrage: A Youthful Victim of an Old Man's Lust, Wheeling Register (WV), Feb. 21, 1877, 4
Body Snatching, Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Dec. 1, 1879, 1
A Body Snatcher Convicted, Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Dec. 24, 1879, 1
Emily Brown's Murderers, Trenton Evening Times (NJ), Jan. 27, 1886, 5
The Murder of Emily Brown, New York Tribune, Dec. 14, 1886, 1
 

Daniel E. Sickles Murder Trial 1859
The Sickles Case, Evening Star, March 16, 1859, 2
Trial of Daniel E. Sickles: Sixth Day, Daily National Intelligencer, April 11, 1859, 2
Trial of Daniel E. Sickles: Seventh Day, Daily National Intelligencer, April 12, 1859, 2
Trial of Daniel E. Sickles: Nineth Day, Daily National Intelligencer, April 14, 1859, 2
Trial of Daniel E. Sickles for the Killing of Phillip Barton Key, Evening Star, April 14, 1859, 3
The Sickles Trial, National Era (Washington, DC), April 14, 1859, 58
Washington News And Gossip, Evening Star, April 19, 1859, 2
Trial of Daniel E. Sickles for the Killing of Philip Barton Key, Evening Star, April 20, 1859, 3
The Sickles Case, Constitution (Washington, DC), April 20, 1859, 2
The Sickles Case, Constitution (Washington, DC), April 21, 1859, 2
Trial of Daniel E. Sickles: Eighteenth Day, Daily National Intelligencer, April 25, 1859, 2
Trial of Daniel E. Sickles: Nineteenth Day, Evening Star, April 25, 1859, 3
Trial of Daniel E. Sickles: Twentieth Day, Evening Star, April 26, 1859, 3
Acquital of Daniel E. Sickles: Twentieth Day, Daily National Intelligencer, April 27, 1859, 2
Washington News and Gossip, Evening Star, July 20, 1859, 2

Elections
New York Election Frauds 1869, House of Representatives, 40th Congress, 3d Session, Report No. 41
 

Gender
A Woman in Man's Clothes, Topeka Weekly Commonwealth, March 25, 1880, 3

Hotels
Willard Hotel, Washington, D.C.
General Andrew Jackson at the National Hotel (New Hampshire Statesman and Concord Register, Feb. 7, 1829)
For Sale the National Hotel (Washington Daily National Intelligencer, Sept. 28, 1854)
 

Marriages
Martha, wife of William Wilton, eloped from her husband, Philadelphia Pennsylvania Gazette, Nov. 25, 1762, 4
Hall of Hymen, Staunton Eagle (Staunton, VA), Oct. 30, 1807, 3
A Temple of Hymen, Augusta Chronicle, Oct. 21, 1860, 3
Hymenial, The Cambria Freeman (Ebensburg, PA), July 20, 1871, 3
Hymen's Harvest Time, Trenton Evening Times, Nov. 29, 1883, 4
 

Poverty
Provisions for the relief of the poor in St. Louis, 1872

Prostitution
How the White House's neighbors in 1890s included 108 brothels and 50 saloons in Washington D.C's 'Hooker Division' (Daily Mail, May 15, 2004)

Society
The Case of Henry Ward Beecher:Opening Address by Benjamin F. Tracy, Of Counsel for the Defendant (1875)
Official report of the trial of Henry Beecher, Vol. 1 (1875)
Sanger, Margaret. The Pivot of Civilization (1922)

Temperance

American Temperance Society, Independence (Poughkeepsie, NY), Jan. 22, 1832, 4
American Temperance Society, Boston Recorder, March 14, 1828, 44
American Society for the Promotion for Temperance, Boston Recorder, April 7, 1826, 55
South Carolina Anti-Intemperance Society, Charleston Courier, May 31, 1828, 2
The Temperance Society, Enquirer (Richmond), May 31, 1833, 3
Temperance Department: Massachusetts Medical Society, Boston Recorder, June 22, 1827, 10
Temperance: Hint to Merchants, Boston Recorder, July 11, 1828, 112
A Bold Stance Against Intemperance, Centinel Of Freedom (Newark), July 24, 1827, 3
Society to Promote Temperance, National Advocate (NY), Aug. 7, 1827, 2
London Temperance Society, Boston Recorder, Aug. 17, 1831, 132
Periodical Circular of the American Temperance Society, Boston Traveler-9-20-1833-1
Training without Rum, Boston Recorder, Oct. 5, 1827, 148
N.Y. State Temperance Society, Commercial Advertiser (NY), Oct. 15, 1833, 1
South Carolina State Temperance Society, Charleston Courier, Dec. 2, 1856, 1