Temperance pledge changes Henry Ellis in town tale
A man named Blake declines temperate use of liquor and drifts into ruin, then a friend challenges him at a temperance meeting where Ellis pledges to abstain. A reformed speaker shares a personal history of marriage, loss, and warning, urging temperate drinking avoidance.
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Hiarry
Eclonel
Blake
Harry
Thean
Amorie
Henry Ellis
Ellis
Hardy
Ign
Henry
Hetty Wilkins
Hetty
Tam
London Breweries Described by Elizur Wright Jr
The piece tours Whitebread & Co.’s London brewery, noting its size, equipment, and scale including coal use and annual output. It recounts vats, coppers, and vast storehouses, plus the monarch’s visit and a satirical verse about King George II. It ends with temperance proposals to tax liquor sellers to cover pauper costs.
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London
Morning Chronicle
Elizur Wright, Jr
Bos
Whitebread’ & Co
George
Thrales
Sam Johnson
Boswell
Whitebread
Giles
Watt
Boston
Don
Japan
Shringer
Peter Pindar
George II
Beery
Mr. Whitebread
Wright
Charly
Do No Harm The Dangers of Drink Warned
A moral tale condemns alcohol abuse, recalling a man who wastes his life and tears his family apart. It urges readers to see the dark future of drink, noting a wanderer returns to find poverty and hunger. A child pleads for bread as a warning.
The Drunkard's Will Bequeaths Shame to Family
A ruinous testament leaves sorrow to parents, mortification to siblings, and a broken heart to the wife. Each child receives poverty, ignorance, and a low character, with the memory of a hideous monster in life.
Eastern Parable of Fear and Pleasure
A man traveling in Syria leads a camel which panics and drags him toward a cliff. Clinging to a shrub as a dragon jaws below, he sees two mice gnawing the root, but finds a fruit on a branch and forgets danger. The tale ends: the madman is the reader, death the abyss, life’s sorrows the camel, and pleasure the fruit veiling fear.
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Ion
Syria
Pritchard Dentist Offers Diverse Dental Services
W H Pritchard of Augusta advertises five years of study and practice in dentistry and offers teeth plating with gold tin or cement from 1 to 200 dollars and pivot or suction based teeth from 6 to 800 dollars. All operations warranted or no charge. repairs and adjustments available with specimens viewable at his residence.
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Wm. H. Pritchard
Broad Street
Augusta
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