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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1845
Page
4
A collage of verse fragments by Jonathan Lawrence and a Poor Man's Evening Hymn. The lines urge looking aloft for courage in life and death and ask God to bless humble meals and labor. The poems invoke resilience, faith, and hope amid sorrow and poverty.
A plain temperance talk compares liquor sellers to dangerous bakers and physicians who harm patients. It argues drink buyers risk death and ruin, urging readers to view liquor dealers as complicit in social destruction while noting other trades’ responsibilities to public welfare.
A long spirited critique argues that money bears witness to the bearer’s trade and outcomes. It contrasts honest labor from farmers and mechanics with liquor sellers whose earnings fund misery and crime, urging Christians to uphold virtue and warn others against intoxication. It also touches on freedom and a warning tale about the grave-digger and liquor in taverns.
A historic prospectus outlines aims to reform humanity via phrenology plus physiology and animal magnetism. It argues knowledge of mind and body underpins happiness, health, and morality, and promises new departments on physiology and vital magnetism as core future directions.
Editor urges readers to support a monthly phrenology and physiology journal aimed at moral uplift. The piece touts the science as universal and practical, offering 32 pages monthly at low rates and promising access to the poor as well as the rich. It appeals for subscriptions and cross-promotions by editors willing to run the notice.
Announcement of a new medical periodical published in Augusta by P. C. Guieu edited by I. P. Garvin and Paul F. Eve. Monthly issues with 64 pages each, first part original communications second part reviews and medical intelligence. Subscription $3 annually paid in advance with mail subscription to P. C. Guieu. November 21.
A prospectus from the Georgia Historical Society and editors proposes a Southern monthly magazine to promote independent thought, defend Southern interests, and publish military and historical material. It pledges nonsectarian critique while discussing religion and politics, seeks subscribers, and notes Savannah as the base with a five dollar annual price, dated May 1, 1845.
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