Temperance Convention open invitation at Eatonton 1843
Eatonton hosts a Temperance meeting inviting delegates from the Penfield convention to assemble November 23, 1843. The piece urges statewide representation, hosts welcome, and publication of resolutions. It ends with a sermon on justice and the fight against intemperance, urging avoidance of drinking company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eatonton
Penfield
Friends of Temperance
WM. A. Houghton
Robert F. Triere
No headline. plea for sobriety and duty in Washington
A reader laments a husband’s ruin by drink, praising a sacred pledge against rum and urging Washingtonians to act faithfully for a cause praised as just and beneficial. The message calls for vigilance and personal effort to advance prohibition ideals.
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Ito
Hich
Advice to Sundry People on Virtue and Vice
A collection of maxims advising restraint in passion, public disclosure of faults, independence, and forgiving injuries. It mocks political hypocrisy, urges debt avoidance, promotes temperance, and ends with eccentric bits on secret keeping and women as the weaker vessel.
Harvest feats and rail project in early reports
Mr Edward F Dean reports last year a five hand crew produced 63 bales of cotton weighing 350 to 400 lbs each and 320 bushels of corn on 16 acres on Reedy Branch Abbeville District South Carolina. The US cotton crop for last year totals 2 379 460 bales with an increase of 695 886 bales. The Ship Canal project progresses with Baring London to finish in five years at a toll of 3 francs per ton and New Grenada cedes 80 000 acres. The Cincinnati Sun warns of daguerreotype counterfeiting notes and a Pennsylvania Episcopal Church system lists 115 churches and 9 006 communicants. The Shakers publish a book on departed spirits including figures like Washington Penn Alexander Mahomet Bonaparte.
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Edward F. Dean
Reedy Branch
Abbeville
S.C
Hamburg Journal
United States
Messrs. Baring
London
New Grenada
Barings
Education and Ghosts in a Parson’s Tale
A colonial era voice recalls John Adams urging training of children in virtue and industry. A parish priest warns a frightened man about a shadow and a ghost, while a sensational note reports a hydrophobia death in Saint Die from a dog’s saliva contaminating a plate and a girl’s hands.
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John Adams
Saint Die
Vosges
Domestic remedies and care notes from an old periodical
A pasted collection of home cures and advice including lukewarm bath for fever with soap and water, milk and molasses for throat and cold, olive oil with turpentine for sore throat, turnip syrup for hoarseness, onion salve for inflamed wounds, and salt in washing water to deter pests in cabbage and greens.
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Louisville Gazette
Gazette
Southern Monitor
Exchange table notes on banks and specie bonds
Fragmented list details banks and branches in Georgia including Marine and Fire Insurance Bank Central Railroad Bank Macon State Bank branches Milledgeville Athens Columbus and Savannah areas. Mentions Georgia bonds for specie and various bank notes with values and par prices amid scattered entries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marine and Fire Insurance Bank
Central Rail Road Bank
State Bank
Macon
Commercial Bank
Milledgeville Bank
Georgia Rail Road Bank
Athens
Augusta
Ruckersville Bank
Marine & Fire Insurance Bank
St. Mary’s Bank
Central R. R. Bank
Venter Bank
Oo Gaskin Co
Reed
Exchange Bank of Brunswick
Insurance Bank of Columbus
Picnix Bank
Columbus
Bank of
Hawkinsville
Western Bank of Georgia
Planters & Mechanics Bank
Columbus Bank
Pe Nee
Caris Pees
Georgia
Charleston Banks
Bank of Hamburg
AuaBaMa Nores
Ais
Bank of Columbus Sours Corona Nores, Cuecks
Acousta Notes
Mechanics’ Bankee
Brunswick Bank Ees
Bank of Augusta
Augusta [Insurance & Banking Co
Georgia Rail Road
State of Georgia
Court Dates and Bookstore Advertisements from Augusta
OrioncEburg South Carolina courts announce return days on September 16 and September 30 with various court sittings through October 23. Advertisements include S T Chapman Jr and John Millen offering services, and Charles Grenville Co Booksellers selling books, stationery, music, and libraries with discounts for schools and institutions.
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South Carolina
Edglefield
Own
Bannwest
S. T. Chapman
Wholesale Book and Stationery Store Promotes Broad Street Inventory
PPS Thomas Richards of Augusta advertises a vast stock of school and professional books with blanks, writing paper, ink, drafting supplies, office items, cosmetics, and a large range of musical instruments and fancy goods. Country merchants urged to inspect, with binding and old books services offered. Also legal notice requests leave to settle Judy and two children of James Broadhurst estate.
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Richmond County
Judy
James Broadhurst
Susannah Broadhurst
Also Mentioned on This Page
The
Penfield Temperance Banner
P. H. Mell
J. M. Ashurst
J. H. Campbell
O. L. Smith
G. M. Paine
America
New York
Rye
Westchester County
Sandy Elsh
Cincinnati Sun
Episcopal Church
Pennsylvania
Washington
Penn
Alexander
Mahomet
Bonaparte
Johnny Caxr
Washingtonian
Aveusta
E. R. Larchar
St. Manus
H. A. Elbert
Axperson
H—Fleetwood Rice
Pickens
Amuel T. Chapman
Edgefield
Orangeburg
Barnwell
Richmond
Snead & Mil.ledge
Lincoln
Warren
Court of Common Pleas
John C. Snead
John Milledge
Aga
Cuba
St. Ieee
Porto Rico
Java
Orthern
lCoan
Russia
Phos Hanks
Mouasses
N. Orleans
Avana
English Island
Ois
Aerl
Ratsins
Malaga
New Orleans
Havana
St. Croix
Mpinner
E. E. Scofield
Insurance Bank
Broadst
WM. Haines, Jr
Garvin & Haines
Broadstreet
Haviland, Risley , CO
Globe
U. States
C. Se
M. Antony
S. L. Bassport
Wees
New York Light Osten
Savan Eee
Sharleston
Prem
Oranceburg
John Millen
North Side
Broad-street
Eagle and Phoenix Hotel
Jane
Charles E. Grenville & CO
John B. Murphy
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