21 Aug 1874
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1874
Page
1
The Appeal announces ad rates and rules for notices and announcements. It lists charges for single and multiple insertions, transient notices, political candidate listings, obituary notices, and notices paid by corporations or individuals. It notes discounts for yearly advertisers and payment timing requirements.
Poem by Alice Carey about a family tragedy. The speaker mourns three dead siblings and two lost at sea, with one wandering son and a plea for divine care for the living. The verse reflects sorrow, memory, and longing for reunion at home with the father.
The text explains how mental strain raises brain blood flow causing wakefulness and poor sleep, and suggests diffusing blood through the body via warm baths. It cites anecdotes of extended wakefulness, notes possible exaggeration, and mentions a cure using gum arabic mucilage on the eyelids. It ends with a moral about inner strength overcoming circumstance.
A medical reflection assigns life phases from five to seventy, urging early training, balanced nutrition, regular exercise, and prudent habits. It warns against overfeeding, tight apparel, and sedentary work, then advises diet, sleep, and care as age advances to delay disease and preserve vigor. The piece cites athletes, literature, and doctors to outline how memory, ambition, and health shift through decades.
The article discusses paying former slave owners for enslaved people as a postwar remedy. Estimates place three to four million enslaved in the South and roughly two to four billion dollars in value at stake. It notes proposals to fund such payments via methods besides direct treasury outlays and urges slaveowners to register their enslaved ancestors for future compensation. The piece links the idea to political strategy in the South. It also reports the Aug 13 Radical Congressional Convention in Szuma Alabama nominating Judge Haralson on the 239th ballot and a note about the Saratoga wriggle as a fashion trend.
A divine opposed to secret societies faced a large audience when local boys released an infamous billy goat into the hall. The goat leaped toward the preacher causing chaos as women and children climbed benches. He was finally captured and tethered, the sermon resuming amid renewed confusion.
Mapam expresses strong admiration and intent to become your relation after consideration. He vows to move his situation, profess admiration, and seeks approbation to pursue an aggrandizement of joy and exultation upon approval.
The letter questions the addressee's excessive veneration for a minor foundation and mocks the motivation behind the oration. It praises the writer's diligence, suggests recreation or alienation as sources, and ends with a courteous sign off from Mary MoorEration.
A veteran merchant Stephen Girard advised keeping business private to avoid jealousy or enemies, a maxim he followed. Dr H W Caldwell of Greenville Alabama recovered $300 in silver from an old well, tossed in for safety during the war. First law of gravity never laugh at your own jokes.
A Dr Slack explanation debunks belief that horse hair in water becomes a living hair snake. He notes dry hair in water swells unevenly and forms a contorted shape, but asserts no evidence of vitality. The creature called Gordimis aquaticus is described as a living, locomotive worm-like parasite found in grasshoppers and bird stomachs.
A Virginia family near Liberty Mills, Orange County, heated water for coffee in a tea kettle and discovered a large black snake boiled alive in the morning brew. Some family members were ill but none seriously injured following the unsettling find.
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