Temperance News From Georgia 1844 Local Societies
Reports from Savannah Gainesville and Concord detail temperance societies, membership figures and meetings. The Washingto nan Society of Savannah numbers 600 women 200 men 400 and plans monthly gatherings. The Mechanics W T Society has 177 members with weekly meetings and pledges. The Marine Total Abstinence Society hosts about 90 members and plans future cooperation. Concord Hall county reports 123 members with steady growth and two apoplexies since formation. Gainesville reports 85 men 52 women and no drink at judiciary grounds. Also includes a moral courage anecdote about a Connecticut inn scene and a tract prompting a changed drink choice.
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Temper- Abis County
Washingtonan Society
Savannah
Mechanics W. T. Society
Marine Total Abstinence Society of
B. F. Doucin
Young Men's
W.T. Society
Oglethorpe Barracks
Hassel
Baptist Church
Gold Water Army
Hawkins
Tremain
G. W. Avams
Penfield, Temperance Banner
Gaiinsvialt
Temperance Banner
Temperance Society
Total Abstinence Society
Concord
Hall County
Gainesville
565Th District ‘Temperance Society
Temperance Visit Alters Townsman Fate and House Scene
A narrator recalls warning victims of intemperance during a journey to Hartford. He notes meeting a temperance advocate and later returning to find the bar replaced by a temperance house. The landlord, now sober, reports the absence of liquor since that day and the town forms a temperance society.
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Hartford
Empire State
New York
Wrongdoers Rooted in High Society Hotels Not Grogshops
The Baltimore Sun argues crime stems more from fashionable hotels than grogshops. It claims hotels foster vice and finishers shops profit from the degraded, while grogshops are only conduits. The piece urges blaming institutions that propagate seduction rather than those who suffer it.
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Baltimore Sun
Jazarine
Society of Gentlemen
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Washingtonian
Debating Truth About Alcohol in Temperance Talks
A father’s answer about drinking raises questions on honesty and virtue. The piece argues temperance can curb drunkenness by exposing its harms and shaping young minds to avoid deceit and vice through sober example.
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Hiush
Young “Ladies Seminary
L. R. Willliams
Europe
The Subject of Duties Cited as Core of Philosophy
The quote notes that duties form the most useful part of all philosophy, attributing the thought to Cicero. It underscores duty as central to philosophical study and moral reasoning.
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Cicero
The Messenger Prospectus for Southern Family Newspaper
A southern Augusta venture outlines The Messenger prospectus and plan for a family newspaper free of party bias. It promises departments on romance, miscellany, fireside readings, political world, agriculture, foreign news, temperance, commerce, poetry, ladies and youths, with Major Jones guiding editorials and a weekly lantern of current events and moral tone.
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Augusta
Ourself
Messenger
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Joseph Jones
Pineville
Achat
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Penfield Pemperance Banner
District ‘Temperance Society
William Cobb
William, KE. Wilson
Sterling Roberts
James W. Emmet
Nathan Jonnes
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Am. Temp. Union
Connecticut
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American ‘Tract Society
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