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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 18, 1873
Page
3
The Cuthbert Appeal reports no May Sabbath school celebrations in town while noting cases of whooping cough and measles, and a frost with no major crop damage. It previews Marshall & Co.'s Royal Tycoon Troupe of Japanese on April 21, praises Demorest's Monthly and mentions ice sales, groceries, and local shop promotions.
The piece laments nighttime garden thefts by lazy thieves and urges using a Parker gun to deter depredations, arguing heavy shot under the hides would deter rascals more effectively than jails or courts. It also notes agricultural progress in Calhoun county with rising crops and improving fences.
A Georgia reader urges editors to publish warnings against moving to Texas. The letter from Wooten, Georgia, details high land prices, scarce labor, harsh winters and hot summers, and a stagnant Texas economy. It cautions Georgians to stay unless they seek farming work, and includes anecdotes about local Texas residents and a brief note on a preacher’s controversial moves.
Readers urged to travel west via the Missouri Pacific Railroad from St Louis with Day Coaches and Pullman Sleepers to Missouri and western states. The line touts its track, equipment, and prompt connections, noting a first class all-rail Texas route via Sedalia or Vinita. For maps and schedules, contact J F Thompson in Chattanooga or E A Ford in St Louis.
An ad promotes Simmons Liver Regulator as a safe simple remedy for constipation aimed at printers tailors and shoemakers. It also includes a missing persons note offering a ten dollar reward for two enslaved youths Wat and Duartes aged 13 and 15 and mentions a residence near Lumpkin Georgia. The column describes a well finished house with Charleston supplied fittings by P. P. Teale.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad offers 1,200,110 acres in Cass and Southwest Missouri at 3 to 12 dollars per acre on seven years time with free transportation from St. Louis. Climate soil timber minerals schools churches and lawful society entice emigrants to this land of fruits and flowers. For details contact A Tuck Land Commissioner St Louis Mo February 28 year.
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