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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1843
Page
3
A reader urges a State Convention on temperance to curb life destroying vice. Milledgeville is proposed as site for the November gathering, with Penfield and Banner efforts forming a local coalition. The discussion follows a Peppery exchange about rum and social propriety.
The Washingtonian notes a Penfield gathering by Georgia temperance societies and urges a state convention. It proposes Milledgeville as a central site during the Legislature session and calls on the Manuculture Society of Milledgeville to organize.
A South Carolina man famed for hard drinking is described as irrecoverably lost to alcohol. His friends then devised a bizarre prank binding him with glue, attaching cow hair to his hands and a cow tail to his rear, leaving him to awaken in a transformed state.
The poem reprints lines from a friend at the Arsenal praising the unseen enemy and urging readers who acted in those times to remember their vows under solemn circumstances. Epivor.
Florida lines praise God during illness and plague, invoking divine aid as the author prays to be saved from death and to live in praise. The poet attributes healing to a higher power and vows spiritual devotion even in death. The second passage extols a virtuous woman who raises children well, surpassing romantic heroines in moral impact.
Practical kitchen tips including bread sauce for wild fowl and pig, Oxon Saver herb vinegar, and curry sauce with butter and saffron. Also cloth nap raising and suLPMORING wool and straw bonnets by rubbing with a card and using heated charcoal in a closed space.
The text instructs to burn brimstone on hot coals to bleach woollens and straw bonnets. Articles should be hung for three hours or overnight, with coloured woollens treated before dyeing, and the same sulfur method used for straw bonnets.
List of Washingtonian subscribers as of June 10 1844 including J F Carsewell J B Ramey C J Jenkins and others. Augusta Washington Total Abstinence Society to meet Thursday night August 24 at eight in Presbyterian Lecture Room to discuss a Temperance Convention at Milledgeville and appoint sub committees led by J W Meredith Jas T Hook Potter Fleming and others. WM Haines Jr secretary. Augusta August 19 1843.
Fragmentary item lists items like invitation tickets and various goods such as belts, caps, hoes, boots, laces, and ribbons alleged to be marketed at the Washingtonian office. The garbled text references business receipts and sales instruments without coherent structure or dates.
Law Blanks printing offered with assorted inks and materials. The firm Snea DentSledge announces new practice in Middle Lincoln and Warren Counties and the Northern Circuit, with offices at io Range over the Port Office in Augusta Georgia. John C. Snea and John Milledge will handle County and city courts and be available during business hours. August 8th 1843. Aug 12
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