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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1844
Page
4
Poem fragment recalling shared cradle, mother’s love, and lifelong bond. Two siblings or lovers claim unity of blood and sentiment Tied by memory and common home, vowing to stand shoulder to shoulder through life and death in a single, untroubled night of sleep.
Eltha Burritt tells of a young couple from the Isle who seek prosperity but are wrecked by alcohol. The wife confronts the drunken husband’s plunderer at a tavern, crying out in anguish to restore the man she loved and the life she shared.
A recent execution in Zanesville Ohio followed by a full confession from the condemned killer known as Shoemaker He attributes his crime to a life of ignorance and drinking claiming a religious awakening mattered little to prevent his act He recalls a brutal decline from farming roots to a violent end as conscience warned him but habit and vice prevailed.
The passage appears as garbled dialogue describing a person mocked as a free agent. Reconstructed sense is limited. it shows a character planning work of a fiend and a crowd reacting with shock and farewell. Names, places, dates, or clear events are not discernible.
A Camden Eagle excerpt recounts a German speaker detailing temperance in New Jersey. The humorous speech portrays street scenes and a conflict over alcohol, noting a protest against rum and the implied influence of free agency on moral behavior.
A Philadelphia gentleman ordered the best wine for a party but the delivery was delayed two weeks. The wine proved sour and undrinkable, yet the merchant blamed the delay and quipped that using it on receipt would have made it prime. The Temperance Advocate notes the humbug of wine drinkers.
Our subscribers and temperance friends seek aid in gathering data on Georgia societies. Please supply names, member counts by gender, and pledge nature to extend the table and show the movement’s strength in the state. Respond to federated temperance in science.
Appan Dennett of Boston offers a fourteen month subscription at twenty five cents for Jared Sparks life of Washington. The work includes engravings and portraits with materials from General La Fayette and many notable supporters praising its accuracy and value. Postmasters and newspapers offered incentives for subscriptions and agency sales. Boston 1843.
W M Russet offers a six month public subscription for a youth oriented religious paper titled Rose Bud to be issued every Saturday after January first in Forsyth Georgia. It will be printed 18 by 24 inches with small type on good paper and priced 73 cents for six months, payable on receipt of the number. If subscribers are insufficient it will be discontinued. The paper aims to combat temperance demon and other evils while avoiding sectarian doctrine.
Prospectus announces the Washingtonian to launch a temperance and family paper published every Saturday at one dollar per year. It invites subscribers and postmasters to support the venture, offering club rates and tasks editors to extend circulation, while promising moral, educational, and agricultural content.
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