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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 01, 1844
Page
8
A poetic fragment praising water as a divine gift, urging moral strength and purity. It extols water’s crystal clarity, compares it to wine, and imagines a community pledge to water as life sustaining. Dated April 24 1944 in Abbeville C EL.
A narrative poem and tale of a maid who refuses a suitor, a damaged man William FitzRoy and his wife Harriet. After repeated binges and broken promises, the couple seeks reform but the husband ends in a fatal drunken death by the river, leaving Harriet to mourn.
A narrator recalls twenty reformers returning from church with families, many previously seen as hopeless converts. The piece praises the Washingtonians for signing the Total Abstinence pledge, urges further outreach to those still tempted, and contrasts bitters with reform. It urges readers to sustain efforts to rescue worthy lives from drink.
A Temperance publication warns that after a year of expanded weekly issues at the same price, losses near $600 threaten its continuation. subscriptions lag, and organizers urge supporters to renew or begin new subscriptions at higher rates to sustain Volume III starting July, with editors continuing work gratis.
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