Temperance Standard. A Family Newspaper, Devoted to Temperance, Morality, Agriculture, and General Intelligence. Volume I. Boston, Friday Morning, May 30, 1845. Number 22.

Original newspaper printed in black ink on beige paper. 16 1/2" x 22 1/2." Newspaper is clean and intact overall but has two horizontal and vertical fold lines (likely original), light age toning and slight rippling throughout, some loss of text on first page along fold lines and at center intersection of said fold lines on all four pages, and a few brown spots limited to top and bottom edges likely from moisture damage (what may be a small bit of powdery white mold is present on these spots). A Good copy. The May 30, 1845 (Number 22) issue of theTemperance Standard. The Temperance Standard, also known as the Standard, was a newspaper and the official publication of the Massachusetts Temperance Union, the latter of which was founded in March 1838 as a temperance organization. In addition to forwarding the temperance movement, the Temperance Standard also included general news, articles about education and family matters, jokes, pithy sayings, agricultural news, and works of fiction. The following are some of the features in this issue: "Charles Raymond" [cautionary tale about the titular man who is in the throes of addiction to opiates and alcohol], "The Death Bed of the Inebriate" [story of a man who once had a promising future but is now on his deathbed due to alcoholism], "Celebrity of Women" [rumination upon the stereotyped portrayal of women and women authors who have written to combat those stereotypes], "Education" [a call for the common school for more widespread education across socioeconomic classes], "Influence of the Temperance Reformation in Bringing to Light Buried Talent," "A Visit to the Charlestown State Prison" [author recounts a visit to said prison and warns readers that most of its prisoners purportedly ended up there due to intemperance], "A Presentment of Grog Shops," "Appeal to Young Men," "Report of the Secretary of the Charlestown Female Charitable Temperance Society," "News Department," "Temperance Meetings," "Poetry: To My Wife," and "Agricultural: Wire Fences; Subsoiling for Carrots; Liquid Manure; Locust Borers Destroyed; To get rid of dead Logs in a Field; Caterpillar; Cleanse your Wool; Farmers' Library; Prevention of the Bee Moth.". …