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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1844
Page
4
A temperance pledge speech proclaims loyalty to temperance and denounces intemperance. The piece describes a large anti temperance meeting where wines spirits and other beverages oppose the temperance movement with mock parliamentary banter and a committee chosen to pursue action.
The editor seeks assistance from subscribers and temperance supporters to gather detailed Georgia society data. Requested items include society names, member counts by gender, and the nature of each pledge to extend a statewide table. Respondents are urged to aid the efforts.
J T S Park continues to teach at County Line Academy near Quaker Springs for the coming year starting Monday January 15. Board available nearby for seven dollars per month, with limited student board including tuition at twenty five dollars per quarter in the teacher's family. Also notes removal of PSHE Depository and sale of Fall and Winter clothing, with benevolent aims to aid the poor.
A historical prospectus outlines a debate between Mr Campnet and Mr Rice on baptism and church doctrine held in Lexington and Paris with topics on baptism, creeds, sanctification, and church authority. It states publication plans for a 700 page octavo volume priced at 7 10 dollars with volume discounts and January 1844 order deadline via D S Burnet Louisville KY.
Great National Work by Ppyappan Dennett of Boston to publish Life of Washington in fourteen monthly numbers at twenty five cents each. Each issue will contain forty to fifty pages with portraits and engravings including Washington, Mrs Washington, Mount Vernon, Braddock’s defeat, Cambridge and Morristown HQs, Valley Forge, Germantown, Hanover handwriting facsimile, and more. Subscriptions urged with testimonials from prominent figures. postmasters and agencies offered commissions and free copies for subscriptions. Boston 1843.
The Saturday edition published in Augusta Georgia is issued under the name of James McCafferty with ongoing weekly distribution.
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