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Temperance and Factory Life in the Washingtonian Era
In Augusta’s 1844 Washingtonian supplement, Post Masters handle subscription payments, while the piece reviews Forsyth’s Annual States Temperance Convention and lauds the Lowel Factory girls. It praises Mind Among the Spindles, highlights Susan’s Lowell mill letters on operative life, and urges temperance, duty, and self-denial amid industrial and reform efforts.
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