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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 14, 1843
Page
6
The text argues temperance as key to health, citing Socrates and Lewis Cornaro to show reform of bodily constitutions aids longevity. It praises abstinence and exercise, condemns excess, and ends with a dubious botany for treating Botts in horses using bleeding Laudanum and milk mixture.
The Eatonton Total Abstinence Society convened at the courthouse on September 11 1843 and resolved to hold another temperance meeting in Eatonton during the fall inviting all state delegates. They urged hosting houses for delegates and asked the committee to publish resolutions and reports.
A speaker urges pursuing the cause by personal earnest effort not mere words. He highlights a reformed drunkard who, despite rough speech, moves crowds with his testimony of downfall and recovery, showing the power of lived example over eloquence.
A Highland Messenger quote condemns tattling busybodies who gather and spread insinuations in white communities, calling them poison and destructive to peace.
Young George prepares to leave for sea as a midshipman opposite his father’s house. He asks the boat to return his trunk to spare his mother’s grief, choosing to stay. His mother urges him with a blessing tied to honoring parents and divine blessing.
A fragment from a 19th century column recalls a prisoner listening to music from a jail cell and a General dining with an Irish host who jokes about abuses. It includes a homespun remedy for bed bugs using red pepper and a brief note on Tenn. Agri. bulletin style.
A notice from Oct 14 1843 calls a meeting of the Washington Total Abstinence Society at the Methodist Church on Monday evening at 7 30. Secretary WM Haines Jr urges full attendance for business of importance to the society. Also includes an advertisement for the Bommer Manure Method offering vegetable manure, compost, and purin with pricing by land size and mail delivery options from Abbet & Co Baltimore and A Sands for rights and directions.
A dense list of banks and branches in Georgia with notes on bonds and deposits. Mentions Mechanics' Bank Brunswick Bank Bank of Augusta Planters' Banks Central Rail Road Bank and various city councils in Augusta Milledgeville Macon Columbus Athens Darien Hawkinsville and Hawkinsville bonds and state bank branches. Includes references to Georgia Rail Road Bank and Marine and Fire Insurance Bank and notes on currency and bonds.
Market notes show Prince at 84, score 74, round bales 7 quality square at 64, bale prices around 5 to 61 cents. Trade details reflect a small shift in values across bale forms.
A fragment lists subscribers who have paid their subscriptions up to August 10 including J. D. Bell A. B. Mallory Thomeo Davis Mulberry P. O Lovick Betts in a local periodical.
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