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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1873
Page
3
The paper notes a pleasant season, mentions progress on Allton and Simpson's pew building, and reports on a funeral and various local notices. It includes references to postal letters in Eufaula, church meetings, and local civic items.
A social note invites readers to welcome James Bachanan back from Texas where he has lived for two years and urges workers to pursue labor and enterprise in the West rather than expect easy bread and meat. It contrasts Western opportunities with local life.
A Mayor's Court in Cuthbert fined residents forty five dollars plus expenses after a nightlife tale featuring wine faulty tastes and odd dishes like cotton fritters. The piece notes residents often fund city government with their hard earnings and hints at local attitudes toward restraint.
An assortment of garden seeds including asparagus beans cabbage collard carrot cucumber celery lettuce peas pepper parsley parsnip okra radish tomato turnip and early corn is available at JOS T. KIDDOO & CO successors to J J. McDonald. Also noted is a sleeping car robbery on the Atlantic and Gulf road with chloroform used on passengers and valuables taken. A Tennessee Mr. Taylor has invented a rapid firing gun claim 700 rounds per minute at 300 yards. The Atlanta Herald reports Treasurer John Jones sold 25000 Nutting Bonds in small lots and expects full sale by August. The Savannah Republican questions if the Devil is dead.
The Albany News faults prolonged Branwick and Albany railroad litigation as costly to the company and notes court officers and lawyers reap substantial fees. A minutes statement from Glynn County Superior Court lists funds paid to attorneys, the Clerk, the Master in Chancery, and a book-keeper, urging an early termination of the suit.
Market list shows prices for cotton with rates for bacon clear sides ham and shoulder cuts, butter, eggs, candles, coffee per barrel, corn per bushel, honey, walnuts, tomatoes, syrup, tobacco, and butter per pound. Includes assorted grain and produce figures with various unit prices and ranges as read from Cuthbert.
An 1868 notice from Houston County Georgia extols a well finished house with stylish sashes and ornate woodwork, credits P P Peale of Charleston for materials, and invites prices by mail. It also promotes Simmons Liver Regulator, Charter Oak Stoves, and Dr Tutt’s Vegetable Liver Pills with claims of cures and beauty benefits, urging readers to purify blood and restore health.
The Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Company offers 1,200,000 acres of land in Central and Southwest Missouri at 3 to 12 dollars per acre. Payments over seven years with free transportation from St. Louis to purchasers. Climate soil timber minerals schools churches and law abiding society attract emigrants. For particulars address A. Tuck? Laid Commissioner St Louis Mo Feb 28 ly.
The notice touts cheap safe and direct travel from St Louis to the West via the Missouri Pacific Railroad. It highlights Day Coaches and Pullman Sleepers, claims best track and equipment west of the Mississippi, and notes new Texas connections via Sedalia or Vinita with all rail routes to Texas. Readers are directed to J F Thompson and E A Ford for maps timetables and rates. Questions answered promptly.
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