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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1844
Page
4
An Abbeville Banner poem from April 24 1944 extols water as a divine and refreshing gift. It uses ornate imagery to praise water’s purity and life giving qualities and urges temperance and devotion, referencing a community letter or tribute.
A moral tale combines a lyric about a loyal heart resisting temptation with a sober collapse of a husband, William FitzRoy, tormented by drink. Harriet’s steadfast love drills into reform contrasts with the fatal drunkard’s end as the river claims him after a final spree.
A churchgoing scene shows former drinkers, now respectable, walking home with families after signed pledges to Total Abstinence. The piece urges Washingtonians to widen efforts to recruit more drinkers, noting many still suffer without guidance or support and that kindness aids reform.
A year after expanding the Washine Tontan to weekly issues at the same price, the proprietor reports nearly $600 in losses as only about three fourths of subscribers paid. He appeals to Temperance supporters to subscribe or urge others, proposing new annual rates and agent commissions to sustain the paper, with Volume III starting the first Saturday in July.
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