State Temperance Convention Georgia Meets Forsyth
The next annual meeting of the Georgia State Temperance Convention will be held in Forsyth on November 21. Delegates or letters are urged from temperance societies statewide. Col Joseph Henry Lumpkin to deliver the anniversary oration. Col Junius A. WheatFIELD as alternate. Attendees may call at the Post Office for Committee directions.
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State ‘Temperance Convention
Georgia
Forsyth
Jos. Henry Lumphry
Junius A. Wine- Field
Forsyth T. A. Society
D. Sanford
Sec’y
Proposal for a New Paper The Saturday Evening Messenger
The note applauds W T Thompson for a planned city publication named the Saturday Evening Messenger. It praises his catering to varied tastes a well arranged public print and his writing abilities. A fuller notice will appear in a future column.
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Saturday Evening Messenger
Thompson
Can I withhold my support from this cause
A political appeal urges readers to endorse a ticket and pledge mutual support for principles. It calls for endorsing the electoral college slate and forming a gentlemanly society pledging not to drink spirits or malt liquors wine or cider.
Temperance Intelligence In Uncertain Times
A fragment notes a lack of cheering news on temperance progress at home and reflects on the humbling admission of stagnation in the movement.
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Temperance
Temperance movement gains momentum in London and beyond
The article reports on the Metropolitan Total Abstinence Society in London with about thirty branches and over ten thousand pledges to abstain from alcohol. It notes active public speakers, female and youth associations, open-air Sunday meetings, temperance literature, and libraries, praising progress while urging broader local funding and citizen involvement.
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Pashingtonian
New York
London
Metropolitan
Total Abstinence Society
England
St. Georges
Metropolitan Association
Walworth and Camberwell
Vauxhall
Support of Temperance Operations and Young Man Promise
A Middlesex Washingtonian excerpt urges mass funding for temperance from all citizens including the poor and reformers. It recounts a Feb 25 1842 Congressional Total Abstinence Society meeting where Thomas W. Gilmer urged youth to shun alcohol, arguing self government, moral example, and sober guardianship for America’s future.
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Congressional Total Abstinence Society
Washington
Thomas W. Gilmer
Virginia
Secretary of the Navy
United States
Princeton
Gilmer
America
Reason
Wolsey
Congressional Society
Temperance Society
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the Washingtonian
Augusta
Jao Oss
W. T. Brixvir
D. Hook
Ben Hox
Janes Hanven
Don
A. W. Noga
Washingtonian
The
Middlesex Washingtonian
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