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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1843
Page
3
A temperance piece blends suffering at home with a call to action. It contrasts insensible drinkers with families harmed by vice and cites an arithmetic allegory about liquor imports and a long deadly canal mockery. The excerpt urges continued advocacy and vigilance.
A sobering bow to drinker readers urges a captured soul to choose reform. The speaker likens the drunkard to a fallen brother, pleading for redemption through temperance and the mercy of a supportive community.
A Mr Thomison recounts a tragic incident in Sumpter County Ga on the eve of July 4 1843. A intoxicated father driving an ox cart wanders, the cart runs a hill pressing the child to death under a barrel of spirits, and the murdered boy lies abandoned until neighbors recover the body.
The Lancaster Sentinel recounts a heated exchange with Dr C W Appleton after a profane anonymous missive accused him of misconduct. The letter, dated July 1 1843 from Robert W Middleton is described as impudent and defamatory. The paper notes Appleton’s imprisonment in New Jersey and mentions a royal society comet report and a New York court martial of Commodore Morgan.
The fragment lists birth years of figures including Van Buren, Calhoun, Webster, Clay, Tyler, and John Quincy Adams. It notes they were born in 1782, 1782, 1777, 1790, and 1767, placing them around sixty-one and related ages in the period.
After years, a Philadelphia creator claims a new machine supersedes steam engines. Atmospheric air enters a cylinder through a tube, is rarified by an internal chemical agent, and drives the piston accordingly.
An individual named Joan 8. Curorox has been apprehended in England as the person who forged to defraud Jacob Little & Co of New York out of about twenty thousand dollars. The facts suggest a strong doubt that he is the guilty party.
In Bangor a Danish 40 page settlement document for an estate in St Thomas was translated by Mr Burritt of Worcester known as the learned Blacksmith. The editor of the Whig praises the translation highly. Burritt states the work took twelve days and suggests eighteen dollars as reasonable pay.
A Philadelphia ledger describes cooling water by surrounding a water container with wet coarse cotton to evaporate and lower the interior to the freezing point. In tropical regions ice is unavailable, so workers keep two pitchers at their station, one for drinking and one for evaporation, to have cold water in warm weather.
The Tuscaloosa Monitor shares a bread making method using milk warm water flour yeast and salt to yield four loaves with guidance on adjusting salt for flour type and weather. It also describes a cream substitute by curdling tea poured over beaten egg and a method to preserve apples and pears in a sand layered crock stored in a dry place for winter keeping.
Odd advice describes a method to release a bottle stopper by heating the neck with a tied band and a fixed object, then a separate tip recommends pepper in a feather bed to destroy pests and musty smells. No dates or places given.
The document records subscribers in Augusta Waynesboro McDonough and nearby areas who paid their subscriptions to the Washingtonian up to June 10 1844. It lists Dr Paul F Eve Mrs James Cates P S Owen and others. Attorney John Milledge invites business in Burke Scriven and Columbia counties.
Charles E Grenville and Co offer wholesale and retail sale of school, classical, medical, law and miscellaneous books with blank books paper quills and stationery. Also music instruments and library supplies. law and medical libraries available on liberal terms. July 4. WM Haines Jr promotes Nile Compound Syrup of Pink Root as worm remedy.
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