This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 10 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
May 31, 1845
Page
8
Poetic meditation by Charles Louis Heyde urging usefulness and charity in life. The speaker stresses avoiding sloth, valuing charity, and recognizing death as a reckoning. He imagines Heaven as a solace and calls for joy at the moment of rest, with closing lines expressing acceptance.
The Washington physician and longtime temperance advocate Dr Sewall died at 59 after a pneumonia attack. A bold medical adviser to Congress, he exposed the ruinous effects of alcohol, lecturing with drawn stomach plates and urging total abstinence to save national health and virtue.
A temperance note argues water as the natural drink and warns against intoxicants. It cites cases of long life from abstaining diets, including John Bailes of Northampton and Lord Heathfield, noting water and vegetables as guiding habits and warning that strong drink shortens life.
An editorial urges all reformers to stay with the temperance movement after failures. It notes several men who broke pledges and lapsed into delirium tremens and ruin, while others admitted fault and rejoined. The piece warns that withdrawal leads to renewed drunkenness and misery for families, urging continued support and attendance.
Three Windham County Vermont merchants secured licenses to sell liquor and were approached by a ladies committee. The women urged the men to relinquish the traffic in exchange for a pledge to abstain from selling alcohol.
The offer was immediately accepted and the licenses were delivered up and buried in the meeting. All rumsellers, thankfully, are not hopelessly incorrigible according to the record.
A young man from the Independent Drink-or-let-it-alone group proposed to a girl who had signed the pledge to abstain from ardent spirits. She blushes and declines, saying she cannot traffic herself for a hogshead of brandy.
A prospectus for the American Phrenological Journal volume seven outlines aims to reform humanity through phrenology physiology and magnetism and adds departments on physiology animal magnetism and a section on women. It emphasizes health mental moral progress and education and appeals for circulation to advance human improvement and happiness.
An editorial promoting a monthly Phrenology journal promises wide accessibility for all readers. Subscriptions cost $1 for one issue, $2 for three, $5 for nine, or $10 for twenty. editors can receive free copies by reprinting the notice.
A prospectus for a new Savannah based monthly publication named The Southern Historical Magazine seeks Southern literary leadership. It outlines aims to publish discriminating criticism, promote native genius, discuss religion and politics, feature military and naval topics, and publish Georgia Historical Society materials. Published by W. Tourn Williamson from October, price five dollars annually, with subscriber and agent details and return by August 1, 1845. Savannah May 1, 1845.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.