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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 24, 1843
Page
3
A lengthy 19th century letter burning with wit argues over a temperance circular. It questions authorship by editors or a committee and details how household influence and social pressure could boost the Washingtonian’s reach. The piece ends with playful threats of oversight and conversion.
In a temperance essay a reader is urged to view sobriety as progress toward a higher destiny. Even a relapse is seen as reducing harm while highlighting humanity. The piece argues that abstinence matters, with references to a child’s tears, a wife’s pain, and a mother’s hope as motivators.
A veteran exhortation urges continued temperance, warning of relapse and outlining ten safeguards. Emphasizing avoidance of grog shops, steady employment, family impact, national duty, sacred truth, mutual aid, and seeking Heaven's blessing to sustain reform.
A local woman is credited with persuading several notoriously intemperate women to take the Pledge. Her act transformed a husband’s hellish home into a peaceful life as she urged others to sign, with few names required to illustrate the broader impact. The piece also includes Dr. Chalmers on war’s ferocity and pacific policy.
The speaker denounces romanticized war as a brutal scene where the dead and dying fade from view while art and music glamorize combat. He argues true virtue requires rejecting war’s seductive narratives and embracing Gospel benevolence to end its seductions and cruelties.
A domestic note shares cost effective beverage ideas using coffee and dried apples to imitate imported coffee. It also presents a ginger pudding recipe from Mrs. Saunders and a method to preserve eggs for months or over a year by lacquering, cooling lime salt tar, and packing eggs upright with lard or butter.
A lettered note offers old time cures for asthma and the Pines disorder. It prescribes linseed oil boiled with honey and garlic for asthma. alum applied as a local remedy for a five to seven day cure. and a vaporine coven mixture of sweet oil honey and vinegar simmered and taken as a tea spoon dose.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Philadelphia Richmond Charleston areas with unclear dates or actions, leaving details and entities unreadable. No coherent event, people, or organization can be confirmed from the readable fragments.
A historical ledger lists payments to the Washingtonian with names and due dates. Avousta Robt Thomas, John Millen, W F Pemberton paid to June 10 1844. Decatur C D Parr, Levi Willard to June 10 1644. Warrixton J M Cody to June 10 1844. Mavtsox T G Thomasson to June 10 1644.
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