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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 31, 1844
Page
4
A temperance meeting prompts Henry Ellis to pledge abstinence after hearing a story of a once temperate drinker who ruined his home. The lecturer recounts his own fall from moderation to misery, urging the audience to avoid liquor to protect marriage and family.
A Morning Chronicle excerpt by Elizur Wright Jr describes Whitebread & Co.’s fourth London brewery. The tour covers coppers, vats, malt and hops stores, huge beer cisterns, and the vast stables with named horses. The piece notes annual capacity about 190,000 barrels and value around $1.51 million, with grim reflections on temperance and social costs.
A temperance sermon warns that alcohol harms begin unseen and grow daily. It recalls a man who drank away his family, leaving them in squalor while he wandered. Their need for bread and despair illustrate the ruin that begins with one glass.
A bitter testament leaves society with a ruined character and a sad example. The writer assigns ongoing sorrow to feeble parents, mortification to siblings, a broken heart and life of shame to a wife, and poverty and ignorance to each child, branding the father a monstrous figure.
A traveller in Syria leads a panicked camel toward a stream and falls from a cliff. Clinging to a shrub, he sees a dragon below and two mice gnawing at the roots, while a ripe fruit on a branch tempts him. He grasps the fruit and forgets fear, realizing the man is himself and pleasure distracts from death. The camel, dragon, and mice symbolize life’s sorrows, death’s abyss, and day and night.
Wm H Pritchard at his Broad street Augusta residence offers five years of dental study and practice. He performs fillings with gold tin or cement from 1 to 200 dollars and tooth insertion on pivots or plates from 6 to 800 dollars. All work warranted or no charge.
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