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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 12, 1845
Page
3
The Albany Argus argues temperance alone fails. only total abstinence from all intoxicating drinks can purge drunkenness. It cites New York pauperism costing over a million dollars, urging state action to ban poisonous drinks and reduce tax burdens.
An exhortation cries to ring bells and sound alarms to fight a city’s fires of intemperance. The speaker urges every resident to rise, act, and rescue families from the deadly consequences spreading house to house and heart to heart.
A meditation on faith and science, contrasting heaven and worldly doubt. The speaker questions fame, progress, and virtue, urging acceptance of mortality and the limits of human knowledge while accepting fate. The poem laments scientific triumphs as despair and contemplates whether truth can yield true happiness.
A reflective piece on language, noting words carry immense power. Speech shapes culture and character, with poets Homer Milton Cowper praised for musical influence. Gossip and small insults act like daggers, seeding mischief and judgment’s reckoning.
The piece paints the Prairiedom landscape as vast and vivid, detailing endless grass, groves, and watercourses. It evokes multicolored flowers, contrasting blooms, and a fragrant, variegated carpet across rolling lands. It notes quails shifting shadows and the traveler’s onward journey across this lush, sculpted scene.
The narrative follows Michael O Reily and his brother Patrick as they abandon a prairie cottage for the Missouri River voyage. A steamboat crew schemes to keep him aboard while a risky escape plan and a half-formed pipe escape loom, ending with Michael clinging to a rosary and glimpsing the uncertain voyage ahead.
A wealthy Count teeters between bachelorhood and marriage. He mails two letters, one accepting and one rejecting, places them in a hat, and sends a servant to fetch one. Twenty four hours pass to reveal his fate as the servant returns with the acceptance, making him the happiest man in the region. Also notes Osage Indians selling white children to the Osages for horses or goods, with pleas for government action to protect and identify the youngsters.
The building for surgical operations will be ready by August 1 near the Georgia Railroad depot. It will accommodate 4 to 8 white and 10 to 20 black patients, with a nurse on duty day and night and no board or nursing charges. Surgical attendance and operations require the usual fees. From November to March, those unable to pay will be treated free by the faculty. Paul F. Eve, Prof. of Surgery, Med. College of Ga, Augusta, June 1845.
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