Date: 1842-
Issue Details: First known date: 1842... 1842 The Teetotaller, and General Newspaper
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The Teetotaller, and General Newspaper was a continuation of the Temperance Advocate and Australasian Commercial and Agricultural Intelligencer and maintained that newspapers emphasis on temperance and teetotalism. The Teetotaller reported colonial news that had a bearing on liquor imports, sales and consumption, including changes in government regulations and licensing arrangements.

The Teetotaller generally carried one poem per issue. These were rarely by Australians. Poetry usually came from British magazine sources or, more often, from American sources. (The American poets were frequently women.) A large majority of the poems dealt with the social evils associated with drunkenness and advocated a teetotal stance. International poets whose work appeared in the Teetotaller include Lydia Sigourney, Robert Montgomery, Thomas Campbell, Henry Francis Lyte and John Pierpont (qq.v.).

Notes

  • Epigraph: It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak. - Romans 14:21.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

First known date: 1842
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: J. Reading , 1842-1843 .
      Link: U8552Web resource Digital copy of print publication via Australian Periodical Publications 1840-1845.
      Note/s:
      • Printed and published by James Reading, for the Proprietors at the Teetotaller and General Printing Office, King-street East, Sydney, New South Wales. - Teetotaller and General Newspaper, 1.1 (8 January, 1842):4.

Works about this Work

Notice 1843 single work column
— Appears in: The Teetotaller, and General Newspaper , 27 September vol. 2 no. [89] 1843; (p. 1)
An announcement of the closure of the Teetotaller, and General Newspaper due to financial losses.
Notice 1843 single work column
— Appears in: The Teetotaller, and General Newspaper , 27 September vol. 2 no. [89] 1843; (p. 1)
An announcement of the closure of the Teetotaller, and General Newspaper due to financial losses.

PeriodicalNewspaper Details

ISSN: 1440-3331
Frequency:
Weekly.
Range:
Vol.1, no.1 (8 January 1842)- vol.2, no.89 (27 September 1843)
Continues:
The Temperance Advocate and Australasian Commercial and Agricultural Intelligencer.
Size:
Four pages per issue.
Price:
Four shillings per quarter, payable in advance; five shillings if left to the end of the quarter.
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