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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1845
Page
6
The Washingtonian of Augusta reports its upcoming termination of volume and its plan to discontinue in July due to insufficient subscribers. It urges readers to pay arrears and subscribe through the 26th number to receive issues until the end and to settle accounts to avoid reminders later.
An 12th insii account alleges Dr Dugas removed Mrs Clark of Columbia's entire breast during a mesmeric sleep with no pain. After waking, clinicians confirmed the removal by direct examination, prompting debate over plausibility and the future of such alleged practices.
Examine daguerreotype miniatures by Dr Halsee at the Masonic Hall displayed for visitors. The reviewers praise the likenesses of many local faculty members clergy and citizens and invite a visit to view the watermarked portraits and other works.
The article praises the Protestant Unionist of Pittsburgh for urging moral reform through peaceful discussion. It champions truth argument and persuasion, emphasizing love and shared humanity among Christian factions as the basis for harmony and civil discourse.
The editors express confidence that the writers will maintain high standards, shed light on their subjects, and inspire love in all their investigations. They urge readers to support the publication and order it for friends.
The piece lauds Sheet Anchor of Boston as a valuable periodical devoted to seamen temperance humanity and intelligence. It commends its lively Pilots, wishes favorable winds and safe voyages, and invites patrons beyond mariners, noting the one dollar annual cost and the talent of its conduct.
The Little Georgian published at Forsyth by Solomon Harris is enlarged and improved and now arrives weekly. The paper is praised as a general favorite in the state and offers a subscription at 1.50 dollars per year.
A 19th century editorial urges fostering diversified local industry through favorable legislation and tax relief while condemning the rum trade. It argues factory success depends on protective laws and sober workers, warning that unbridled alcohol use and underhanded distilleries threaten new ventures and urban growth.
The passage argues Augusta must diversify its industry or fade into insignificance and curb rum traffic to safely expand. It questions whether grog-sellers will show patriotism by halting a trade seen as hindering the town's prosperity, and notes that the outcome remains to be seen.
A historical critique denounces rum sellers as a privileged class responsible for social ills. The author argues that institutions favor them by allowing intoxication and circumscribing punishment, urging citizens to decide if this aligns with republican ideals and the founders' aims.
A denunciatory tirade condemns four local drunkards for their vice and accuses grog sellers and citizens who enable them. The speaker foresees hellish torment and moral judgment, urging action to end the vice and hold the sellers to account.
In Washingtonian style, a Deacon D and Death business near the Central Railway track sells liquid fire and distilled damnation. The piece claims their sole aim is to ruin souls and bodies of customers with slow or quick effects. A neighboring county youth visited his father near the shop and drank at the shop in the afternoon, with unnamed consequences ensuing.
A son leaves Deacon D.s shop after drinking fights erupt among friends. He drinks more and dies when a freight engine halts to avoid a severed body on the track. The mangled youth is mourned by the crew, and the writer urges the editor to beware such Deacons in Augusta. Dated January 10, 1845.
A thunderous exhortation on intemperance, detailing its ruinous march across families and society. It claims alcohol destroys youth, families, health, laws, and government, leaving poverty, crime, and despair in its wake. It equates drinking with murder, fraud, and societal collapse.
The Maryland Temperance Herald discusses the sea serpent legends with notes on frequent retellings and fresh wonders as the creature reappears in stories, yielding various unusual shapes and deeds as the familiar tale endures.
A vivid colonial-era warning describes a metaphorical Land Snake lurking in taverns hotels and liquor shops. It details its small beginnings in bottles and casks then its devastating bite causing dizziness wasted strength and rotting health. Neighbors are urged to beware and resist alcohol taint.
A poem circulating in newspapers questions temperance through two viewpoints. The verse contrasts the supposed perks of drinking with the supposed virtue of abstinence, labeling the drinker as a fool and praising the temperance defender as a great fool. The piece invites the author to append a satirical stanza about theft linked to temperance.
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