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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1844
Page
4
An 18th or 19th century verse scene presents personified qualities such as Content Plenty Health Industry and Love in a cottage setting. The rambunctious garden includes a dog, ponces through scenes of abundance and virtue while satire hints at folly and class through a playful, moral tableau. The narrator invites the reader to meet a family from a century ago.
The text argues against strong drink calling it dangerous and costly. It warns red as it leads to pain and harm, risks life, destroys peace, and drains resources. It emphasizes prohibiting use despite possible brief excitement and warns of health damage and death.
On January 21 a public meeting at the Capitol saw forty members of Congress enroll as officers of the Congressional Total Abstinence Society. Charles Hudson of Massachusetts was named President with vice presidents from New Jersey Virginia Indiana North Carolina and secretary George S. Catlin of Connecticut. An February 15 meeting featured remarks by Catlin and Callamet of Vermont. The assembly approved a resolution denouncing threats to free institutions and the American character.
A Massachusetts speaker links drunkenness to crime and poverty, urging lawmakers and citizens to embrace temperance. He cites executions and manslaughter cases, describes families torn apart by alcohol, and calls for a broad moral movement to protect the public interest and institutions.
Rev. Hiram H Ketcoee of Illinois, visiting Scotland, cites thirteen years as head of a family and a literary school principal, saying he has never bought wine or spirits or offered them to friends, and believes social drinking was similar in Britain five years earlier. The remark appears in the Witness newspaper via St. John's Telegraph.
A husband, fallen to drink and idleness, returns drunk and demands supper. His wife, who works to feed the family, tearfully says there is nothing. He complains there is nothing and, in a fit of rage, demands a clean plate and cutlery, insisting he will go through the motions anyway.
A quotation from Am. Temp. Union extols temperance as disuse of alcohol, arguing it would transform human nature, curb crimes, educate future generations, and pave the way for further moral reforms toward universal virtue. It imagines a world free of moral vice and physical evils as a result.
A Boston Atlas Paris correspondent notes the U S frigate Cumberland under Com Smith tests temperance the pledge signed by about 300 crew with only three members still drinking grog on board this ship.
Public notice from the Wadlek principality government in Germany prohibits issuing marriage licenses to individuals addicted to drunkenness. Applicants must prove they are no longer enslaved to intemperance. Reports by ecclesiastical, municipal, and police authorities must state if either party seeking marriage exhibits intemperance.
Personal friends who met in Detroit fifty years ago, Jacob seeking work at the American Fur Company and James seeking a school to teach. Through perseverance they rose from poverty to wealth and power, two have died, and the living should honor their memory by supporting public institutions for lasting happiness and gratitude.
The text argues that hope sustains people through life’s trials. It notes that happiness depends on anticipating future good and that without hope the spirit may be crushed by despair. The piece reflects on whether pleasure comes from anticipation or reality.
The text extols value of books and a good woman while warning against judging by appearance. It condemns pretentious knowledge and arrogance, comparing big heads to corky turnips. It argues virtue and happiness as paths to reform, noting sinners serve the devil for pay and curses gain nothing.
A fragmentary OCR input lists scattered words and names such as Business Carns Baty Tickets Ciaculars Curcks Notes Birt Heaps DaTaLocurs Bites of Lanvna inviting a concise newspaper card style summarization. The readable items hint at names and items without a coherent event or place.
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