Evraine District notices advertisers deadline
Advertisers must hand in advertisements for the Evraine District by eleven o clock in the forenoon to appear the same day.
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Newspaper
Augusta Evening Dispatch
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1859
Page
3
Advertisers must hand in advertisements for the Evraine District by eleven o clock in the forenoon to appear the same day.
Mr Stephen Massett impressed a fashionable Augusta audience with his travel reminiscences and varied voice as he performed song and comic imitations. Reports note his farewell program received strong applause and speculate on a future visit. A scammer posing as a journalist’s brother duped several locals into subscriptions for the Southern Citizen, prompting a Savannah alert and editor’s warning. The piece also discusses city drainage and calls for an underground sewer system to improve health and appearance.
The article traces early stringed instruments from the dulcimer and virginal to the clavichord and harpsichord, noting improvements by Marius and Christoforo, the rise of Zumpe and Erard, and the Boston Chickering firm. It highlights English dominance, Broadwood, and the claim that Chickering perfected the piano by 1820 with over twenty thousand made by 1859, while mentioning Knabe of Baltimore. It ends with a Brooklyn marriage anecdote of black steamer staff and white brides.
Commercial Intelligence notes Augusta on February 24 with steady demand and prices for middling to good middling cotton, plus daily sales and receipts totals. It also reports Columbus market activity on February 23 with limited trading and a weekly cotton statement showing stock, receipts, and shipments ending February 19, 1959.
Official drawings of the Sai Academy Lottery in Georgia list drawn numbers for Class 144 dated February 25 1859 and Class 145 dated January 24 with names of commissioners Wood Eddy & Co as managers.
A catalog from ORE notes several new and forthcoming books including The Life and Remains of Douglas Jerrold by his Celien Lenco, Letters from High Latitudes, Lord Dufferin, and works such as Wilson's Western Africa and Olmstead's Texas Journey. Also listed are The Courtship of Miles Standish and The Afternoon of Unmarried Life among others.
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