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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1844
Page
8
A dated verse tableau depicts a household of personified virtues and pleasures gathered by a spinning wheel and rustic table. Health Plenty Wealth Happiness Industry Patience and Joy inhabit scenes by hay, cabbage and flowers, with Love leading a final domestic tableau and a father figure introduced.
A historic notice argues against strong drink labeling the danger as harmful and costly. It warns it harms health and life, strains peace, and undermines public order while urging prohibition to prevent waste and ruin.
At a January 21 meeting in Washington forty members of Congress enrolled in the Congressional Total Abstinence Society with Charles Hudson of Massachusetts named President. The February 15 gathering featured remarks by the president and others, urging unity and warning that laxity endangers republican institutions.
A reformist address urges temperance as the basis of a stable republic. The speaker cites alcohol as cause of crime and family ruin, recounts executions and miscarriages of justice linked to drunkenness, and urges lawmakers and citizens to embrace a broad moral movement for the Union’s welfare.
The Rev. Hiram H Ketcoee of Illinois writes in the Witness on his thirteen years as head of a family and ten years as a school head, stating he has never bought wine or spirits or offered drinks, nor offended anyone, noting social drinking in Great Britain five years earlier paralleled present norms.
A husband, ruined by drink, returns home intoxicated and demands supper. His wife, who toils to feed the family, has nothing to give, not even a crumb. He declares he will “go through the motions” anyway, even if he starves afterward.
A quotation from Am. Temp. Union argues temperance, by ending spirits and intoxicants, would transform humanity. It envisions reductions in crime and rises in virtue, suggesting the reform could spawn further moral improvements and eliminate physical evils on earth.
A Paris correspondent reports the U S frigate Cumberland under Com Smith has tested temperance with about 300 crew signed to the pledge and only three aboard still taking grog. The account highlights a rare naval example of temperance effort in practice.
The Wadlek government in Ger many announces no marriage license will be granted to anyone addicted to drunkenness. Applicants must prove they are no longer slaves to the vice. Reports by authorities must state if either fiancé shows intemperance.
The passage recalls two Detroit friends from fifty years past Jacob with an axe seeking work at the American Fur Company and James seeking a school to teach. It notes how perseverence and fortune raised them from poverty to power and wealth. It urges that their wealth be used to support public institutions for lasting happiness and gratitude.
The text argues that hope lifts people in hard times and sustains them through anticipation of future good. It notes happiness partly rests in expecting future benefits and that without hope the spirit faces despair.
A collection of maxims on character and virtue urges readers to value integrity over appearance. It warns against arrogance and pretension, notes the limits of supposed knowledge, and suggests happiness as a path to reform.
Fragmentary OCR text lists names like Carns Baty Invitation Ciaculars Curcks Notes and other garbled terms, lacking coherent event or context to identify a definite news item or outcome. No dates places or organizations are clearly readable for a proper summary.
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