Temperance Society Returns Praise and Pledge Signatures
A temperance gathering features unanimous thanks to Secretary Mrs W S Williford for faithful service and notes 25 new signatures to the pledge. Speakers recount lessons from experience and urge continued vigilance against intemperance with a next meeting set at 7 o clock in the Methodist Church lecture room.
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Strobel
W.S. Williford
Hillsign
Sam
Interance
Broughston St
Temperance Society
Graves
Reynolds
Quantock
Methodist Church
Sav, Siar
Temperance Banner Reports Growth of Movement in Harris County
In Wakesville Georgia on February 20 1844 the Mountain Creek Society reports over three hundred members pledging total abstinence. William White and John J. Little addressed Beech Spring Academy crowd urging the temperance cause and inviting participation by local women and youth.
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Wakesville
Mr. Brantly
Friends of Temperance
Old Harris
Mountain Creek
Temperance Hall
Beech Spring Academy
William White
John J. Little
Local Speaker Billy Jones Praised for Ambitious Address
The speech by Billy Jones of Jonesville drew strong cheers as he described a plan he called a scientific spludge of immense magnitude and preponderosity. Attendees applauded his earnest delivery and urged further discussion on the proposal.
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Billy Jones
Jonesville
Billy
Temperance Growth in Western Georgia Temperance Societies Flourish
An 1844 letter from Florence Georgia praises temperance progress in Stewart County. A Sardis Baptist Church society grew to about sixty with few pledges violated, reforming drunks. A Sumrville Baptist Church temperance group soon followed with sixty to seventy members. The writer hopes churches and state will soon discountenance drunkenness and urges others to join the cause.
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Georgia
Sardis
Summerville
Editor Troubles and Notable Notes in a 19th Century Paper
A lively reflection on editor life describing critics who push for fearlessly voiced opinions and those who demand conformity. It notes a New Indian Chief honor for Col. William L. Stone of the New York Commercial Advertiser for impartial Six Nations reporting and hospitality. Also reports Mormon proselytizing in Mississippi near Alabama and indigo cultivation in Louisiana promising high output with low effort compared to cotton.
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Ao Jackanapes
Sysyphus
William L. Stone
New York Commercial Advertiser
General Council
Se‘neca
Brant
Red Jacket
Louisiana
The
Baton Rouge
West
A Doctor's Bill and Curious Medical Items
A humorous fragment lists an extravagant doctor bill for various services from attending at home to listening to symptoms and checking pulses. The text moves to brief notices about insurrections in Cuba, political turnover in the United States, a New Jersey stone deposit, and assorted advertisements for a Truss and stationery in Augusta, Georgia, with dates in 1844.
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Timothy Snooks
John Caremal
Exchange Table Specie Basic and Checks
Fragmentary note shows exchange table related to specie basic and checks. It mentions a company or firm abbreviated as ee ie and sas ig Co. with unclear context or amounts.
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March
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Alabama
Key
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Brooklyne
Cuba
Boston Advocate
United States
the Treasury
Navy
van Buren
New Jersey
New York
Paris
George Woodcock
Prick
Mrracuit Tress
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Augusta
John L. Price
J. G. Chinn
Avausta
Paul IF
Eve
Charles McCoay
Ito
NYG Book
U. States
Greenville
S. C
Dunham & Bleakley
WM. Haines
Washingtonian
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W.T. Brantly
P. O
Joseph Bell
S. W. Rush
Hamburg
K. Lamneat
Broad Street
Old Bridge Bank
W. Rush
R. John Millen
North Side Broadstreet
Eagle and Phoenix Hotel
Berrien & Coulter
Saw Rome
Floyd County
Berrien
Ates B. Coutrer
John B. Murphy
Broad-street
Snead & Mil. Ledge
Middle
John C. Snead
John Milledge
E E. Scofield
Insurance Bank
Broad St. Augusta
Joseph FE. Marshall
Thomas S. Wray
McGraw’s Corner
Bull’s
Corres
Canal
Gonrower
Sone Fff
Brad Wasp Ossena
Orsini
Mo Asses
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Lamp
Ici
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Tosacco
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Ig Co
Lumbus
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Bank of Augusta
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C Branch
Georgia’ Rail Road Branch
State of Georgia
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State Bank
Wee Ee
Marine and Fire Insurance
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Wee Ewe
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