Washingtonian Announced Weekly Publication and Rates
The Washingtonian will be published every Saturday morning by James McCafferty at one dollar per year for a single subscriber, five dollars for six, or ten dollars for twelve, with prepayment. Postmasters may collect subscription money, and mail ads at reduced rates based on frequency. Yearly advertisers receive a ten percent discount.
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Washingtonian
James McCafverty
Post-Office Department
Delegation Report From Washington Total Abstinence Society
The Washingto n Total Abstinence Society of Augusta reports progress at Eatonton Convention. The pledge adoption boosts membership to 2182 whites plus 849 blacks, with two hundred previous adherents rejoining under the Washingtonian pledge. Temperance work grows, aims to redeem all classes and promote virtue nationwide.
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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 by Delegation and Citizens
A temperance delegation extols reform gains and cites dwindling wine licenses from 1840 to 1843, praising recovered drinkers and calling for renewed, steadfast effort. The piece lauds temperance as a religious and moral advance, warns of relapse risks, and affirms future triumph with divine blessing.
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Judge Smith
Ohio
Paul
Felix
Eatonton Total Abstinence Society Organizes Progress
In Eatonton on November 23 1843 the total abstinence society traces its origin to July 1842 and notes local opposition tied to a failed 1839 effort to repeal the license law. It credits steady moral suasion for growth to 145 members and says multiple new societies have formed in the county with a resolve to rid the area of intemperance. R F Trrrpx Seer’y.
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Eatonton
Friends of the Cause
Temperance Convention call and local society notes
Crawfordville Georgia hosts a Washingtonian Society message urging attendance at Eaton ton Putnam County on the 23d inst. with 191 members and an Ebenezer Auxiliary of 60. appeals for total abstinence, revival of behavior, and unity against the liquor trade. A second letter from western Georgia delegates urges concerted effort, noting fifty members formed since February 1843 and four annual meetings, calling Brethren to join in the crusade and push abstinence nationwide.
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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 selects delegates
A Savannah November 19 1843 notice reports the Savannah Washingtonian Temperance Society meeting. Delegates to the Eatonton Temperance Convention on November 23 were authorized, with a fallback to send society information if delegates cannot be procured. Officers elected January 7 include John Ingersoll as President and William S Williford as Secretary. Pledge signers total 81, with 67 remaining after 14 have broken or resigned. 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 Cause Pressed by Savannah Reader Letter
A Savannah correspondent laments the temperance movement’s unpopularity in the city. He notes repeated failed attempts to form societies due to a lack of influential supporters and asks convention officers for proceedings or useful documents. The writer stresses that temperance papers must reach local firesides and urges broader patronage.
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W.S. Witthorp
Sec
Savannah
Hearnville Temperance Convention Delegates Sought At Eatonton
Hearnville and Monticello groups report progress today in temperance efforts. Delegates W B Jourdan and F S Hearn Jr are named for the Eatonton meeting amid renewed resolve after a village setback.
An Old Farmer Presides as Jury Box Quip Echoes
Candor notes an elderly farmer who presided over a meeting. After the jury selection, a man asks why his son was not named as a candidate. The answer recalls that the office demands prudence integrity and regard for others and then says the son is deficient. He then mocks the crowd with a final taunt.
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Inquirer
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G. H. Incrauam
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Hearnville
Hearnville Total Abstinence Society
Fork
W. B. Jourdan
Hearn
Monticello
Cold Water
Washingtonian Association
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