Postmasters Urged to Remit Washingtonian Subscriptions
A wartime style note from The Washingtonian urges postmasters to remit subscription payments to publishers rather than handling postage. It lists a duty committee including Rev W T Paisnty and Dr D Hoox among others and emphasizes convenience for subscribers in sending payments via Post Master requests.
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T Pbaixtty
D. Hoox
Harv
James
Harper
C.s.dop
A. W. Noer
Svaschinens
Washingtonian
Temperance effort praised for persuasive gospel against drinking
The temperance cause is defended as a persuasive effort, not an omnipotent cure, with emphasis on injurious effects of alcohol on body and mind. It cites domestic misery, crime, and pauperism linked to drink and notes broad support across parties, creeds, and classes aiming to curb intoxicants nationwide.
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Temperance Society
Temptation and the grip of social temptation
The piece portrays a young man wavering between a resolve to quit drinking and the lure of social temptations. It argues that public pledge and mutual accountability would strengthen his resolve, making abstinence easier and supporting the individual against pressure to relapse.
Resolutions and the Value of a Promise
The piece argues feeble purposes falter without steadfast resolve. A solemn pledged word weighs. deception cannot be rescued by promises. It emphasizes common sense moral discipline, showing how good intent restricts liberty to prohibit wrongdoing and strengthens honorable conduct.
Look to the Young in Temperance Efforts
The speaker urges focusing temperance work on youth before they develop cravings for alcohol. Washingtonians are urged to prioritize schools and place boys early in virtuous cultivation, noting that today’s youths become tomorrow’s men and shape society.
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Washingtonians
Commencement of Medical College of Georgia Held at Masonic Hall
The Medical College of Georgia held its annual commencement on Tuesday the 4th at Masonic Hall. Thirty three graduates received the Doctor of Medicine degree from Charles J. Jenkins. An address by Rev. Wm.b. Brantly Jr. and a valedictory by Dr. T. B. Gordon accompanied the ceremony. The publication notes a temperance critique urging social leaders to renounce wine and promote total abstinence.
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Medical College of Georgia
Masonic Hall
Charles J. Jenkins
Board of Trustees
Wm.b. Brantly
T. B. Gordon
A Word to the Indifferent on Temperance
A reflective piece notes widespread temperance activism across nations and social ranks. It credits voluntary societies and eloquent speakers like Beecher Hewett Edwards Hawkins Matthew Gough for promoting abstinence and reform among drinkers and communities.
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Europe
Drunkard
Beecher
Hewett
Edwards
Hawkins
Matthew
Gough
Temperance Alert as Supreme Court Reopens License Law Debate
The Supreme Court remains divided on Thurlow v Massachusetts with a new term starting January 1846. Temperance advocates urge collecting writings on legal action benefits and promoting strict enforcement of existing laws while debunking ram sellers who claim fines can be reversed.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Washington
Thurlow
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Friends of Temperance
Supreme Court
No citizen can sue the State without proper law
The Temp. Standard notes that no citizen may sue the State except under an existing law or special legislative permission. It laments the absence of such a law and hopes for a legislature unlikely to grant access to Rumsellers.
Wise Bird Teaches Temperance at Dinner
A captain kept a canary that grew attached to him and drank wine after perching on his glass. The bird became intoxicated and returned to its cage. Later at a different gathering it refused more wine, choosing safety over indulgence. Oh that humans could be as wise as birds.
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Preston
Eng
Generous Cutter Crew Refuse Bribed Grog Courtesy
A Boston Light brig, jammed by ice, was towed to the harbor with help from the U S Revenue Cutter Hamilton crew. The captain offered grog and a cash reward to the sailors who assisted, but they refused, defending themselves as teetotalers and condemning corruption among some ship masters.
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U. S. Revenue
Hamilton
Sturgis
Boston Light
New Year Serenade: Drunken Fellow Puts On Show
The Albany Knickerbocker recounts a New Year’s serenade by a man so drunk he could not distinguish the back from the front of a property. He carried an old guitar and urged a lady to open her lattice, a scene that amused a bystander and satirized a gin and sugar invention.
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Albany Knickerbocker
Catholic Priest’s China Memoir Republished in London
The London edition of Father Ripa’s long residence in China recounts manners, prejudices, and institutions of the Celestial Empire with vivid detail. A dramatic episode describes a Turkish surgeon’s treatment for a head wound, including ice, water basins, and neck stretching to staunch bleeding and restore senses.
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London
China
Celestial Empire
Father Ripa
Naples
Torturous medical ordeal ends with travel return
The narrative details a brutal sequence of second and third operations by a Chinese physician in Tartary. The patient endures suffocating wraps, forced open air walks while fasting, and cutting remedies, yet after seven days recovers enough to resume the journey.
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Esculapius
Tartary
Caution to Amateur Mesmerists in Liverpool Garden Case
A young woman Gorst is placed in a mesmeric state by her uncle in Drinkwater's gardens Liverpool. She remains unconscious for four days and nights with little nourishment. Amateur mesmerists fail to wake her, while two skilled youths gradually restore her after a week of fluctuating sleep and wakefulness. Liverpool Times warns of dangers from ignorant meddling.
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Gorst
Mr. Forshaw
Drinkwater’s Gardens
Liverpool
Liverpool Times
Reward of Industry Awarded to Col McDonald for Cotton
The Apalachicola Chamber of Commerce awarded Col. A McDonald a set of silver castors for the best lot of twenty bales of cotton sold in Apalachicola last season. The prize items cost $101 in New York, and his premium cotton sold for two cents above the highest market price. Nine cents have been offered in New York for his present crop and refused, suggesting widespread benefits if other planters followed his method. The Eufaula Shield raises a call for learning wisdom in cotton farming.
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Apalachicola
Col. McDonald
New York
Eufaula
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