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Newspaper
Augusta Washingtonian
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 23, 1843
Page
7
The passage reflects how unbridled urges can override nature and empathy, driving a man to act with extreme cruelty toward those he should cherish. It emphasizes the danger of intoxication by strong impulses, harming intimate relations and causing severe harm.
A reader praises temperance progress in the District and Georgia Carolina, noting rapid social changes since the Washingtonian movement began. He cites church societies, officials, and lawyers embracing total abstinence, while praising Georgia and Carolina women as allies and urging universal sobriety.
A compact rule explores whether a year is Gensvede by checking divisibility by four. It tests several years such as 1800 801 1820 1936 1940 1814 to see if they divide evenly by 4 and align with leap year conventions.
The Eat Abstince Society at the Courthouse on Monday evening November 11 resolves to have the Penfield Temperance Convention choose Eatonton as a fall meeting site. It invites all delegates and offers hospitality, and asks the committee to publish the resolutions and report. A counter invitation requests a Temperance convention in Eatonton on Thursday November 23 to include representation from across the state.
A Penfield note from July reports a Georgia Convention urging temperance. It argues intemperance harms individuals and society, citing crime and poverty, and calls all citizens to act to resist the vice. It emphasizes shared civic duty and mutual harm.
The letter argues that laws alone fail against intemperance and the root is consumption. It calls citizens to abstain despite distilleries and grog shops, urging temperance as the path to a free, prosperous nation. Signatories include O. L. Smith and G. M. Paine.
The following persons have paid their subscription to the Washingtonian up to June 10 1544 Augusta Mrs Grace Rowell C Catlin S Milling Kirkpatrick Campbell John Hill Eatonton J M Ashurst.
List of Georgia banks and branches with bond prices and notes on various banks including Milledgeville, Columbus, Augusta, Macon, Savannah, and Athens. Mentions state railroads and insurance banks with identical references to bonds and par values. Contains scattered city councils and branch mentions across multiple towns.
Amuel T. Chapman an attorney will attend the Courts of Law and Equity in the Edgefield Orangeburg and Barnwell districts South Carolina and in the Richmond area and adjacent counties Georgia at three doors above the Bank of Augusta Georgia on September 2 13 tf.
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