14 Apr 1870
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1870
Page
1
The notice lists subscription terms and rates for The Cuthbert Appeal. Advertising rates include one square pricing at ten lines with ten trees or tess unspecified, plus charges for subsequent insertions and contract advertising within columns and spaces. Obituaries are priced at $1.00 per square.
Reader notices open with an April themed poem urging spring awakening. The text shifts to a Florida catamount encounter narrated by a hunter, detailing a violent clash, his injuries, escape, and the nearby pursuit and death of the animal. A subsequent piece reflects on the idea of one's mother, while financials recount costs for Georges Peabody's remains reception in Portland.
Charleston correspondent recalls Captain Fenn Peck a veteran blockade runner aged sixty four who narrates his wartime exploits in Charleston, England and Wilmington with sharp recollections of cargo, money and near captures. He discusses ships Bermuda Cecile Kate Margaret Jessie Leopard and Stevewall Jackson and notes loot from gold and bonds, his safety, and a见 tale of torpedoes and Providence.
A long reflective piece contrasts parental duty with moral guidance in the home. It extols a dutiful father and virtuous mother shaping children, recalls nostalgic memories of childhood homes, and praises family as the core of life and love. It includes anecdotes and aphorisms about discipline and virtue.
A moral tale begins with Belinda who plans a stylish married life on a husband earning six hundred. She ignores prudence, Hodge embezzles to fund such living, and is jailed. Belinda learns respectability beats gentility, while unrelated vignettes on geese and marriage follies follow in this satirical column.
A discussion on how the atmosphere diffuses heat and moderates global temperatures. It explains air's heat capacity, how tropical heating drives trade winds, and how atmospheric properties influence climate and human development. Also speaks on etiquette and honor in social settings and warns against gossip.
An old advertisement touts Koskoo as a near specific for kidney and bladder diseases. It claims gentle action and perceptible relief, presenting the remedy as a near-certain cure with soothing effects.
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