21 Apr 1871
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1871
Page
1
The Appeal lists advertising rates with one square up to ten lines at 100 dollars and 75 cents for each additional insertion. Yearly ads receive a deduction, and letters to the proprietor are to be promptly attended to. Transient ads must be paid at insertion, candidate announcements cost 5 dollars in cash, obituary notices over five lines follow standard rates, and all communications promoting private interests are charged as advertisements.
Methodist Church Pastor Lester preaches 11 a.m. and 7:12 p.m. Sunday school at 3 p.m. Baptist Church Pastor Daxter preaches 11 a.m. and 7:12 p.m. Sunday school at 9:12 a.m. Presbyterian Church Pastor J. B. Corby preaches 11 a.m. and 7:12 p.m. Sunday school at 9:12 a.m.
A London Times note on steam road locomotives converts roads to wheeled rails with eight to ten miles per hour plus heavy loads. The Savannah News adds that with minor road repairs these steamer engines could plow fields and revolutionize overland transport. The piece then shifts to a long anecdote about Spriggins, a man who bets on insolvency to gain funds, disputing a fortune, and the moral collapse when money outshines love.
The New Orleans Times warns that the Southern Outrage bill before Congress would transfer lives and liberties of the South to the President, granting supreme sway over eleven states. It questions whether such empire building has ever been reversed and urges public memory of Radical party advocacy.
A thoughtful letter argues against moderate drinking within churches citing Father Mathew and biblical teaching. It defends temperance as essential to salvation, condemns social glass as a lure to intoxication, praises temperance societies, and urges church leaders to promote sobriety to protect families and futures.
Circular from London prescribes strict isolation in a top room, removal of furnishings, disinfection steps using carbolic acid and lime, dedicated vessels for waste, and ongoing skin disinfection with oils. Also outlines room ventilation, sulphur fumigation, and post-illness laundering of all fabrics and bedding.
The remains of John C. Calhoun were exhumed on Saturday morning and replaced in his vault. Earlier, after Morris Island fell to Confederate forces, his bones were moved to St. Phillip's Churchyard. The rector and vestry witnessed the reinterment in a solemn ceremony. A sun stroke fatality occurred in New York that day, with a record heat reading and the mercury at seventy eight degrees.
A page of quips and curiosities notes jokes about soldiers and debt, a marriage of Anna Story to Robert Short, a Hopkinton tobacco mishap with a lizard, a New Jersey widow funding missions, a worn printing press metaphor, and a Missouri ad promising steady talk from a wife and quiet spouse. Atlanta funds street rail and Augusta’s mare sells cheap. Charleston horse wins in record time and is valued at a thousand dollars.
A group of lawyers dines at Wiscasset when an Irishman joins them. They taunt him about his birth, occupation, and his father’s cheating. The punchline lands on the notion that his father went to heaven, where they claim no lawyer could be found to prosecute him.
A fragmented obituary notice mocks sorrow and commerce, altering a death to parody a tribute. It references Othneil Sitgreaves and a wife, counts livestock and items, and mentions modest possessions, with misspellings and odd phrases reflecting advertising style from a bygone era.
An Eastern village seance features a lecturer who asks the audience to raise hands for a black guard story. Nine tenths raise their hands, then the lecturer quips he only wanted to know how many black guards attend, causing a sudden hush as the crowd holds its breath.
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