The Appeal Local Advertising and Subscription Rates
The Appeal issues Friday by Lawtell and Christian sets subscription at one year 300 and six months 200 payable in advance. Advertising rates: one square ten lines or less 100 for first insertion 75 for each subsequent. annual advertisers get a liberal deduction. Transient ads paid at insertion. candidates’ notices 5.60. all cash. Obituaries over five lines at regular rates. Communications for private ends of corporations societies or individuals charged as advertisements. Pamphlets cards blanks handbills produced at reasonable rates. letters to the proprietor promptly attended.
Church Directory Listings with Pastors and Times
MethodIT Church Pastor Lester preaches at 11am and 3pm Sabbath school at 3pm. Baptist Church Pastor Caster preaches 11am and 3pm Sabbath school at 1pm. Presbyterian Church Pastor Cozby preaches 11am and 3pm Sabbath school at 9:12am.
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Methodit
R B. Lester
Pas
P.m.abbath
M. Prebyterian Church
J S Coz BY
P.M. Babbath School
Stream of Life Poem and Grant Story Nugget
A reflective poem traces the life stream from mountain spring to ocean, portraying joy and sorrow, with mortality as the final bend. It is followed by a Roanoke Times anecdote about Grant and Confederate dialogue during the war, ending with a note on English wheat yields rising from ten to over thirty bushels per acre.
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Grant
Roanoke
Virginia
Richmond
Hell
England
Temperance Reasonings From Dutchman’s Tale
A Dutchman explains his temperance choice with a humorous tale. He describes drinking lager then relief from head and body pains, followed by finding twenty dollars in his pocket, concluding he stays with temperance.
The Miners Club and a Stranger at Red Dragon
A Cornish mining district tale describes a gloomy night gathering at Captain Thomas’s Red Dragon. A smugglers’ crew, led by Knox, boasts of robbery and murder as a mysterious stranger wagers with Knox, then exposes a hidden scar of his past before a spectacular explosion and disappearance. The narrator exits shaken, while rumors of a ghostly pursuer or smuggler’s ship swirl.
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England
Cornwall
Thomas
London
Knox
Providence
Gray
Mange in Cattle and Its Treatment in 19th Century Practice
Mange in cattle is caused by a minute acarus that burrows in the skin, with symptoms of constant rubbing and hair loss followed by scabs and raw pimples. Treatments include mercurial ointments, arsenical compounds, soap and mercurial paste, oils, sulfur preparations, and a tar turpentine liniment. emphasize cleanliness and gradual renewal of skin.
Vegetables for Spring and Summer Health
A rural health note urges consuming more vegetables and fruit during warm seasons. It argues our climate demands plant foods for health, contrasts with cold climates, and notes veggies can be easily grown on farms or in gardens to reduce doctors bills.
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Providence
Sailor Recalls Tombstone Riddle in Grim Yard Tale
Aye, a sailor in a graveyard recalls a tombstone inscription I still live. Jack, unsettled, shifts his quid and quips that some say a man may lie, but if he were dead, he would know it. The exchange hint at dark humor in a seaside vignette.
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Jim
Little Jim
Knox
England
Gray
Hobart
Bill
Thomas
Master Gray
Ganger
Mies
Dye
Sax Anold
Jack
Dead Sea Experiences Inspire Daring Traveler's Tale
A recent traveler in Palestine describes bathing in the Dead Sea as an uncanny test of buoyancy where limbs float atop the water like a feather bed. He warns of eye and skin irritation, warns against head immersion, and notes the sea’s startling clarity and the surrounding birds and tamarisks.
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Palestine
Dead Sea
Ife
Jordan
Sodom
Medieval Christian Imagery in Early Printed Bibles
An English paper surveys medieval Bible illustrations from Strasbourg’s 1466 press and a 1192 manuscript, noting horns on Moses, Satan tormenting Job, a devil as a beautiful crowned serpent, and Trinity as three handsome youths. The piece shifts to a meditation on aging and wisdom, concluding with a quip about a scarf pin resembling a ship.
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Strasburg
Moses
Satan
Job
Devil
Sayer
Adam
Eve
God
Father
Keokuk Bridge Opens Across Mississippi in Grand Span
The new railroad and wagon bridge at Keokuk Iowa, the only wagon bridge crossing the river, was completed on Wednesday at a cost near 1 million dollars. It features eleven piers two abutments and a longest span of four hundred eighty four feet with two main spans of two hundred fifty feet for raft passage.
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Keokuk
Iowa
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