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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 02, 1843
Page
8
A Penfield Temperance Banner piece argues for stronger temperance publications noting political editors now publish temperance articles. The speaker praises shifting editor attitudes and calls for subscribers and patronage to sustain temperance papers that could supplant less vital publications. A Looker on.
A polemic urging support for grog shops and licenses, opposing temperance zeal. It cites Boston Post and Cabotville lectures, praising liquor advocates while recounting violent or tragic incidents linked to alcohol, with portraits of drunks, lawyers, doctors, and midshipmen amid a chaotic, flowery tirade.
An account recounts a Hull preacher mocked by sailors with anti temperance jests. A table is toppled during his sermon leading to a fatal skull fracture. The scene shifts to a 1639 pledge from Robert Bolton at Broughton Northamptonshire vowing never to pledge or drink.
The chief of the Medical staff of the French Army says six thousand survivors who returned from Egypt were all men who abstained from ardent spirits. Safeguard.
A mangled OCR item lists varied phrases and misspelled terms likely from a local brief. It mentions items resembling receipts, rats, bits, and names that appear garbled, with no clear event, date, or identifiable entities to anchor a factual summary.
A fragmentary temperance notice cites the Crescent City’s praise of abstinence and reports four promising brewers signing the pledge. It recounts a Washington speaker who swapped rum for water and penned an essay on abstinence. It also notes Father Mathew’s Ireland and Honolulu Temperance Record statistics aboard the Boston.
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