Temperance Society Meeting in Augusta Plans Charity Fair
Proceedings at City Hall recount an Augusta Total Abstinence Society gathering. Addresses by Dr. Means Harris J R Dow and Mr Dod praised efforts to raise funds to relieve debt and aid future operations. A committee was appointed to organize a ladies’ fair and forward resolutions to help the society.
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Total Abstinence Society
City Hall
A. Means
Harris
J. R. Dow
Dod
James Harper
Augusta
WM. Haines
Tess Wm.f. Pemberton
Com
J. W. Whitlock
L.D. Ford
The Temperance Reformation and Its Universal Appeal
The temperance reform grows steadily across society, advocating total abstinence from intoxicants. It targets all people and classes, arguing that only complete cessation can curb universal evils. It portrays alcohol as a deadly foe aided by the powerful and respectable, with drinkers as captives and reformers as the only hopeful resistance.
Temperance Advocates Call For Courageous Rise In New Alliances
The S. C. Temperance Advocate urges friends of temperance to persevere with God’s help for fresh victories. It also appeals to the indifferent and opposing to unite with the cause, presenting the fruits of their acquisitions as evidence of its goodness and truth.
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Friends of Temperance
S. C. Temp
Behold the Change in Habits at Temperance Meeting
Gov Briggs reports a dramatic shift in public behavior from drunken revelry to secrecy, noting three to four large assemblies from thirty to seventy five thousand without a single drunken man observed in the past year. He cites witnesses from Hon. Mr Winthrops and calls out temperance critics.
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Briggs
Winthrops
Temperance Cause
Friends of Temperance
A Pledge Turned Point at a Teetotal Party
At a social gathering Charles defies peers by drinking water while others toast with wine. He exposes hypocrisy of their pledge and persuades friends to sign and join a temperance society, transforming the group into a calmer, firmer temperance circle.
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Charles
William
Noah
Teetotalers
Wilson
America
Moore
Jones
Toll
A London Co. Family in a Poor Hut Near Town
A Negro family of London County described as living in a rough hut of a few boards and hemlock boughs with an open side like a shed. The dwelling houses a father, mother, and eight children, showing severe poverty in the area.
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London Co
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the Washingtonian
Taugusta
March
Lsth
Aioli
W. T.buanrey
D. Hoo
W.de Haan
CB Don
A. W. Nogt
Washingtonian
Wm. Haines, Jr
Mannufactories
Temperance Standard
John Hawkins
Temperance
John B. Gough
St. John
Reform
God
Abolition Charity
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