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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1843
Page
8
A poetic vignette traces a pure young woman adored by a lover who fails her hopes. His ruinous drink problem and infidelity drain joy, leaving her solitary and sorrowful. Nightly sighs and moonlit memories haunt her until a final, purifying escape into lasting purity and love.
An article from the Farmer's Monthly Visitor extols Washingtons simple supper of tumbler milk and corn bread as healthful and sleep inducing. It also recounts temperance themes with anecdotes of rum sellers causing ruin and calls for abolition of rum shops, citing civic distress and moral outrage.
Captain Stockton hosted a temperate banquet for 700 workmen building the steam frigate Princeton at the Philadelphia Navy Yard. Tables in the mould left displayed seasonal delicacies with officers and guests, and no spirits were served, pleasing both the sailors and ladies in attendance.
The notice requests names of temperance societies in Georgia with member counts by gender and the pledge nature. Subscribers and friends afar are urged to respond to the appeal and aid in compiling a state table of temperance strength.
Fragmentary OCR shows a list including Canps Baus Tickers Invitation Tickers CracuLans Curcks Notes Birt Heaps CaTaLoGugEs Bitus oF Lanixec Lanets Pampnets and more. Some items resemble catalog or prize notations, others look like misread names.
The notice states that printing must be done in Gold and Silver Bronze or in various colored inks as specified. It emphasizes compliance with the required ink colors for all printed material.
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