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Newspaper
Cedartown Record
Location
Cedartown, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1875
Page
4
A coffin scene unfolds as workers remove nails and lift a body. A girl’s hand clutches a raisin as a chilling moment of fear passes. Authorities discuss whether a premature interment caused by epidemiology or superstition explains the strange event.
A 19th century disquisition examines graveyard horrors and exhumation cases in the United States and England. It recounts graphic patient tales of premature burial, eerie postmortem phenomena, and a medical student’s note on fear and superstition surrounding life after death.
The article explains indigo dye is sourced from an herbaceous plant grown on Indian plantations. It details harvesting, bundling, vat filling, water pumping, pounding, heating with long poles, and draining to extract the indigo. Workers, tools, and timing reflect careful labor and processing steps shaping color quality and harvest timing.
A correspondent reports on frogs used in rain propitiation in a distant country. The piece describes frog sounds guiding snake predation, the rite of bathing frogs in cages, and grains laid to protect crops from crows. It mentions local crafts and furniture, with references to May climate, temples, and musical instruments.
A long rambling essay treats women as a mix of attributes and types, from pretty to stout, virtuous to flawed, with absurd comparisons and outdated stereotypes. It trails into advertisements for instruments and medicines, using florid language and inconsistent moral tones.
An article rails against lavish furrishings and Beyption style parlor ensembles that cost up to three hundred thousand dollars, naming a Philadelphia banker, a California millionaire, and New York makers. It attacks medical advertising while praising a herbal blood purifier and recounts a testimonial about miraculous cures from a tonic.
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