This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
This newspaper page contains 13 articles. Subscribers can read the full text of each article.
Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1843
Page
4
A fragment from a Columbia Washingtonian piece contrasts a danser and a child with the passions of Love and Jealousy. The poem warns of intemperance’s ruin, picturing a nation’s youth and genius blighted by desire and deceit, urging a pledge to resist the demon.
About 2,000 in the Temperance Society across two parishes joined the annual juvenile celebration on October 27. Youth from 23 schools marched in lines with temperance flags, followed by a feast for parents and friends under Kekuanaoa’s table, concluding with a hopeful impulse for the temperance cause.
A colporteur relates entering a grog shop where six men were gambling and a tense exchange followed over books and tracts. He describes dropping books and almanacs on the counter while the shopkeeper jeeringly questions the value of the material. The scene ends with the keeper reacting to a tract on gambling.
A 27 year old Connecticut native William E. Williams killed himself at the Knickerbocker Hotel with a jack knife after failing to escape a life of extravagance and delirium tremens. The paper also notes the death of Joseph McQuade, an Irishman found intoxicated in a dock near Courtland and Liberty streets. A cataclysmic mill explosion at High Falls west of Catskill killed six workers and scattered 300 kegs of powder, causing alarm and a prior similar accident years earlier. The item ends with social commentary on temperance, marriage, and prudent living.
A narrator recalls distributing temperance literature to gamblers and grocers, balancing almanac dates with a year ahead vs behind. He highlights readers converting at a doorstep, sharing Baxter's Call and tract letters, and notes temperance statistics drawn from the Penfield Temperance Banner to gauge the movement’s reach.
Reverend Justus Perkins recalls a Persian Armenian servant whoWeeps recounting his father’s fall from wealth after heavy wine drinking. The tale links riches, ruin, and enforced poverty, ending with the family surviving on the narrator’s modest stipend. The incident illustrates widespread mirth and misery tied to alcohol in Persia.
A circular lists an array of goods including tickets, office supplies, horse bits, harness items, note books, and various hardware. It advertises neat prompt execution of orders and receipt handling, inviting customers to the Washingtonian office for purchasing and inquiries.
The office offers an extensive assortment of law blank forms and materials for this work. The proprietor pledges to use every exertion to please customers with fair prices and accurate execution.
William H. Pritchard of Dahlonega Lumpkin County Georgia advertises as a General Land Agent for Cherokee counties including Union Lumpkin Forsyth Gilmer Murray Dade Walker Chattooga Floyd Cass Cherokee Cobb and Paulding. Services include examining mining lots testing quality selling leasing titles intruder notices and collected notes at twelve and half percent commission. Special power of attorney required and postage paid on mail. Editors offered monthly insertions.
An 1840s advertisement offers The Bommer Manure Method to make vegetable manure without live stock and to produce compost and purin liquids. Pricing scales apply to gardens and farms. copies via mail upon remittance. Proprietors Abbet & Co Baltimore solicit newspaper publishers to run ads and share rights. May 20 1842.
Prospectus for a weekly temperance and morality focused paper published in Augusta Georgia by James McCaferty. It outlines aims to promote temperance, agriculture, science, and current events, with a low annual price and clubbing offers, urging postmasters to act as agents and editors to advertise in their columns.
The piece advertises The Miscellany a Southern Neutral Family Newspaper edited by W. T. Thompson and published by C. R. Hanleiter in Madison Ga in 1843. It touts moral tales travel sketches literature and political news while promising no sensational crime or obscene content to attract readers across the South and Southwest. The paper costs two dollars fifty cents in advance and offers a free Major Jones Courtship pamphlet for new subscribers and a sixth copy for five referrals.
Prices for types and printing materials listed with a standard 18 percent deduction from old prices. Items include Agate Nonpareil Minion Brevier Long Primer Small Pica and Pica types with various shadings. Offer extended to new articles furnished with patterns and casting suitable for news printing and stereotype work.
We want people to find what they are looking for at NewspaperArchive. We are confident that we have the newspapers that will increase the value of your family history or other historical research. With our 7-day free trial, you can view the documents you find for free.
People find the most success using advanced search. Try plugging in keywords, names, dates, and locations, and get matched with results from the entire collection of newspapers at NewspaperArchive!
You can also successfully find newspapers by these browse options. Explore our archives on your own!
Browse by location and discover newspapers from all across the world.
Browse by date and find publications for a specific day or era.
Browse old newspaper publications to find specific newspapers.