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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1844
Page
4
An aged man warns of rum as the tyrant of the soul and a dying drunkard recalls life's end. The speaker asks what is rum as the man dies, answering that rum is the curse of earth and has robbed him of all. The piece condemns drink through a somber dialogue and the dead man's warning.
A temperance tale set in a rural Ohio county. James Thompson prospered through heavy drinking while his sons and daughter Rose witness a family line of death from liquor. After three sons die and Rose’s mother dies urging total abstinence, Thompson vanishes and is found dead in a mill dam, sealing a warning against drink. Rose pledges to end dram drinking in her future family and to require a Total Temperance pledge from her future husband.
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