Washingtonian Ad Rates and Publication Terms
The notice announces a weekly Saturday publication by James McCafferty at one dollar yearly single, five dollars for six, ten dollars for twelve subscribers. Postage, postmasters handling, and advance payment rules are described. Advertising rates set per insertion with discounts for yearlong placements and continuations across weekly, semi monthly, and monthly editions.
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Washingtonian
James McCafverty
Post-Office Department
Washington Total Abstinence Society Report at Eatonton Convention
Report from the Washington Total Abstinence Society of Augusta at Eatonton shows growth to 2182 members including black members, with 8409 forming two societies for the race. The pledge adoption accelerates reform and pledge violators are primarily unprincipled or weakly influenced, with many reclaimed.
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Washingto Total Abstinence Society
Augusta
Eatonton
Friends of Man
Friends of Virtue
God
Tian
Friends of Temperance
Washington Total Abstinence Society of
Adam
Temperance Reform Praised for Moral Renewal and Sobriety
A convention report lauds the temperance movement for reducing ardent spirits sales from 29 licenses in 1840 to 11 in 1843. It recounts rescues from drunkenness, reform of workers, and families restored, noting both uplifting successes and a cautionary tale of relapse, urging perseverance and faith.
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Judge Smith
Ohio
Paul
Felix
Eatonton Total Abstinence Society Organizes and Grows
In Eatonton on November 23 1843 the total abstinence society traces its origins to July 1842 and recalls community opposition tied to a 1839 memorial to repeal the license law. By moral suasion the group expanded to 145 members led by R. F. Trrrpx as secretary, with others forming additional societies across the county and a resolve to drive intemperance from the area.
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Eatonton
Friends of the Cause
Temperance Convention invites Crawfordville as meeting site
A lengthy appeal from the Washingtonian and Total Abstinence societies in Crawfordville urges Georgia brethren to attend the Eaton ton convention in Putnam County on the 23d. The Crawfordville group reports 191 members with Ebenezer auxiliary, calls for unity, and vows to extend the temperance reform across western Georgia through steadfast resolve and prayer.
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Crawfordville
Navy
Eatonton
Putnam County
Greeling
Friends of Temperance
Ebenezer
Washingtonian
The
Morunt Vernon
Christian Index
Georgia
Israel
W. R. Singleton
Sec’y
Savannah Washingtonian Temperance Society to Send Delegates
A Savannah Temperance Society meeting on November 19 1843 authorized the executive committee and president to appoint three delegates for the Eatonton Temperance Convention on November 23. The society formed January 7 elected officers John Ingersoll president and other leaders. Seventy six pledged members were reported, with fourteen having broken or resigned leaving sixty seven active members, including 46 men and 21 women.
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Savannah
Washingtonian ‘Temperance Society
Eatonton
John L. Blount
Joseph Felt
Wm. King
D. D. Copp
Temperance Society Faces Citywide Apathy and Calls for Support
A Savannah letter laments the temperance cause as unpopular in the city. It notes repeated failed attempts to form societies due to a lack of influential men’s support and requests convention proceedings or other materials to aid their effort. The writer, W. S. Witthorp, urges more circulation of temperance papers to reach firesides and revive interest.
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W.S. Witthorp
Sec
Savannah
Hearnville Temperance Convention Invited for Eatonton
Local society letters urging support for a Temperance Convention to convene in Eatonton on Thursday. Delegates named from Hearnville and Monticello Cold Water Washingtonian Association praise reform work, recount early successes, and note a village fire destroyed archives but resolve to persevere.
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Monticello
Cold Water
Washingtonian Association
Sam
Samousa Pro
Jaspex
Candor and the Jury Selections in a Rural Meeting
An elderly farmer, presiding over a meeting, faced a question about why his son was not named a juror candidate. The reply praised the role as needing prudence and integrity, then bluntly noted the son’s deficiencies. The crowd was met with a brazen challenge to inquire further if anyone else wondered about their own exclusion.
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Inquirer
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Penfield Temperance Banner
L. D. Lattersrept
T. Chapman
Dominic Hawxrys Herr
Ocupah
G. H. Incrauam
Jesse Woopatt
Thomas R. Sammons
Hearnville
Hearnville Total Abstinence Society
Fork
W. B. Jourdan
Hearn
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