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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1844
Page
4
The speaker recalls bygone days of knighthood and praise and addresses Virginia with ardent verse. He extols her brow eyes and smile and declares that no jewel or pearl could equal her value. He imagines enduring danger to win her favor and trace his fate from land to sea.
Ellen Canning endures a loving marriage with James Marshton who surrenders to a first glass after years of abstinence. The relapse triggers violence that kills their infant and cripples their daughter, leading to Ellen's deathbed decline and Marshton's ruin. The piece condemns rum drinking as a disease as dangerous as dirt eating and urges self control.
A historical piece contrasts dirt-eating as a gruesome disease with alcohol abuse. It describes dirt eaters as shrinking from society, dying in agony, and shows parallels to rum drinkers who wreck families and spread misery, noting society tolerates the latter more.
A prospectus for a weekly paper in Augusta, edited by W. T. Thompson, promising a neutral, moral, and comprehensive family newspaper. It outlines departments including Romance, Miscellany, Fireside Readings, Political World, Agricultural, Foreign News, Temperance, the Commercial World, Poetry, Ladies, and Youths, with aims to blend instruction and entertainment and to support southern interests.
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