03 Apr 1874
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 03, 1874
Page
1
The notice outlines advertising prices and terms for The Appeal with rate schedules for display ads and classi fied notices. It specifies that payments and cheques must accompany orders and that continuations require renewal unless forbade. It warns of higher charges for nonpayment and provides guidance on political notices and private-interest advertisements.
A jumble of verse and statistics appears with a comet dream passage and notes on world population density and mercantile fleets. It includes a satirical homespun poem and Rural Carolinian commentary on grasses, cotton, and forage, ending with a joke about Adam and neighbors.
A scene in a New York social gathering ends in chaos as debt and unpaid credits unravel. Mrs Credit and Mr Debit preside while furniture and clothes vanish from the crowd. Shock spreads through streets, markets, and homes as all unpaid goods are seized, leaving households penniless and residents distraught. The narrator describes the panic as an earthshaking, cyclone like apocalypse.
An aged narrator recalls a brutal frontier tale of marriage, emigration, Mohican raids, and vengeance. After Emily and their child Willie are killed, he escapes, slays the attacker, and becomes Indian Killer, a terror of the plains, before learning of friends’ fates in St. Louis.
The article discusses debt among farmers and warns of ruin from continued credit shortages. A farmer cites gains from buying more and selling more, while comparing France’s wealth from small farms and savings to Germany’s indemnity payoff. A lawyer and Dick joke about curiosities, ending with a binder’s humorous book entry about “To repairing the Way to Heaven.”
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