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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1845
Page
8
A tempest rages as a Philadelphia family scene unfolds in a squalid outskirt home. A once respectable carpenter, ruled by alcohol, abandons his wife and child to drink, wagering his wedding ring for more liquor, foreshadowing a tragic descent driven by intemperance.
A brutal husband strikes his wife and mortally wounds her child. The mother dies trying to revive the child, who had witnessed prior deaths in the family. Morning reveals both victims. responders recover the bodies and lay them to rest side by side.
A dated 25 March 1845 fragment warns of the perils of alcohol as a sacred memory and deadly poison. It recalls an inebriate’s rapid decline, delirium tremens, and the moral urging to take a temperance pledge to preserve resolve and safety.
The writer argues that even mildly indulgent drinkers value full temperance, asserting that employers will not hire a clerk or laborer unless he can prove sobriety with vouchers or recommendations, making sobriety a prerequisite for any job. Such a stance reflects a strict employment standard tied to alcohol abstinence.
A survivor of Afghan disasters returns to camp after fifteen months of wandering, covered with hair and almost naked. He is identified as Sergeant Ed wards of the 44th Queen's Regiment. He recalls near drunkenness among the men during the Gun Dundum massacre and their inability to resist.
A prospectus outlines avoiding sectarian religion and party politics while promoting Christianity. It emphasizes a broad, ennobling principle and invites friends of the cause to support by favorable insertions from Stevens and Arms, publishers allied to the effort.
Announcement of a new monthly medical journal to be published in Augusta by P. C. Guieu and edited by I. P. Garvin and Paul F. Eve. Each issue will have sixty four pages, with original communications and reviews. Subscription is three dollars annually, in advance, with contact directing subscriptions to Guieu and communications to the editors.
Prospectus outlines planned Vol VII of the American Phrenological Journal embracing physiology magnetism and a department devoted to women. It argues phrenology as a test for all doctrines and ethics and promises studies on health mental life and female education within a broader reform agenda.
An advertise for a phrenology monthly journal highlights its aim to educate the public and improve humanity. It promotes 32 page issues at $1 each, three for $2, nine for $5, or twenty for $10, with subscriptions to O S Fowler at Nassau Street New York. Editors placing the notice can receive free copies based on insertions.
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