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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1844
Page
8
An aged man warns of Rum as the tyrant of the soul and the dying narrator recalls losing all to drink. The piece contrasts youthful warning with the drunkard’s end, showing how alcohol destroys virtue, fortune, and life through a curse that grips the dying psyche.
A temperance tale from an old Ohio county chronicles James Thompson the farmer and his family. The brothers fall to drink, Rose pleads for change, and the clan’s ruin ends with Thompson’s suicide and his wife’s vow to ban hard liquor in future marriages. The story warns that habitual drinking wrecks homes, faith, and fortunes.
A detailed prospectus outlines departments for fiction moral tales temperance foreign news and poetry with sections on politics agriculture commerce and a Ladies and Youths department. Major Jones will oversee humor and editor William T. Thompson pledges diligent effort and seeks subscribers by December 1.
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