26 Aug 1869
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 26, 1869
Page
1
The readable scraps mention domestic wishes for children and husbands, a historical road linked to Roman-era movements including Paul and Titus, a note on a cannon design claiming forty miles reach, ice’s purported cures, a 1868 dairy cost report, a humorous quip about a sailor and wife, and a misread tale about Miss Ashyxia declining marriage due to health and children.
A Melbourne recorder’s court session features a despondent husband seeking help as his wife is accused of desertion. The defendant’s companion, rival, and appearance are sketched with satirical irony. The magistrate tests the pair with pointed remarks about drink and onions. A second vignette recounts a Natchez steamer crew’s absent minded tally and a Niagara chasm crossing stunt by Professor Andrew Jenkins on a velocipede. The piece closes with a moral about reading as life’s consolation and strength.
A Knoxville area reader tells of a man known for loving sweets who, in town to buy tea and coffee, tasted a sugar sample that was secretly laced with arsenic. A clerk staged a practical joke by pretending the white sugar was poison, triggering a dramatic flee for a doctor before laughter eased the scare.
A massive Chinese man named Chang, eight feet tall and about twenty five, courts attention in New York and Europe. He commands space in trains and rooms, visits the Marlborough House and the Tuileries, and travels with a wife Kin Foo and two children. He is educated, tall father and sister taller, a wealthy tea merchant in Pa-Chao, and compared to the Russian Anak as the tallest man to date.
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