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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 09, 1843
Page
4
A Temperance column argues against drunkenness, detailing health and moral harms from alcohol, the social cost, and urges Washingtonians to avoid inebriates and seek temperate company. It requests local temperance statistics and societies to illustrate the movement’s strength.
A brief essay argues alcohol is a non conductor in electricity terms and, by analogy, brings no wealth happiness respectability health or community good. It claims drinkers neither gain wealth nor virtue, citing social harms from tippling and drunkenness as evidence that the nation is not improved by alcohol.
The ship Monument captained by Marshall cleared yesterday for Liverpool bearing a Temperance Banner at the masthead. Every man aboard, from captain to cabin boy, is a teetotaler, highlighting temperance progress among mariners as a notable achievement in reducing vice and promoting virtue.
A compilation of frontier-era clippings describes the decline of London Breweries due to external pressure, noting a twelve thousand seven hundred thirty quarters drop and related beer calculations. It also discusses the meaning of whisky in state prison barrels quick at 24 cents, comparing prison and common barrels and citing Western New York distilleries facing collapse. A Pawtucket factory scene ends with a sharp quip about a visitor’s breath during inspection.
Prospectus of a weekly periodical published every Saturday in Augusta Georgia by James McCafferty. It announces a general miscellany with literary and local news content and patronage for readers in the city and surrounding area.
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