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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1845
Page
8
A Washingtonian poem laments the deadly lure of the poisonous bowl and celebrates abstinence. It contrasts the perils of drink with a war bugle’s call to courage and duty, urging the reader to seek rectitude and forego temptation. The verses invoke repeated warnings and heroic imagery.
An article argues abstinence as the only safe cure for intemperance and offers guidance for forming temperance societies even with few members. It contrasts hopeful anecdotes of small groups growing to hundreds with grim vignettes where drink leads to job loss delirium tremens and ruin.
A temperance advocate warns that gradual self confidence turns to ruin when alcohol is introduced. The piece cites social drinking leading to loss of control, urges religious and temperate examples, and notes medical observations from a death by distilled spirits, including contracted organs and brittle hair.
The editorial cites Dr. Benjamin Rush arguing that even occasional drinking harms health. It notes many drinkers deny danger and compares rare long life among drinkers to deaths from drowning, asserting ardent spirits pose risks regardless of infrequent use.
The daily press notes Oregon's advanced civilization and predicts high prosperity if laws hold. It cites a July adjournment after enacting a law banning ardent spirits south of the Columbia River with a $100 for each offence and mentions a nine-member Legislative Committee elected by the people.
An exchange relays humorous sailor tales about a drunken crew who misbelieved they were aboard a ship in peril. The wind roars in the house as they carouse and react like sailors facing wreck, creating comedic scenes of misplaced danger.
The writer argues that beer and cider lead drinkers toward stronger liquors, creating a habit that becomes a second nature. Temperance popularity supposedly spreads to mixing strong alcohol with cider and beer, and ardent spirits have created many impoverished paupers in the United States.
The prospectus outlines the aims of phrenology to reform humanity through knowledge of the self. It promises new departments, including physiology, to explain life health and happiness and to test all doctrines by man’s primitive nature, with emphasis on balancing mind and body in moral progress.
A prospectus for a monthly journal linking phrenology physiology and magnetism unveils a reform mission. It argues education of women and public health improve society, outlines low subscription rates, and offers editor O B Fowler’s plan with distribution and promotional terms.
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