29 Aug 1873
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1873
Page
1
The notice lists ad rates and terms for The Appeal including pricing for one square and subsequent insertions, yearly discounts, and requests for advertisers to indicate repetition. It also covers deadlines, payment rules, obituary and candidate notices, and that communications to the proprietor will be attended to.
A flowing poem juxtaposes a dying wife guiding her husband and unborn child with reflections on devotion and motherhood. It blends intimate farewell lines with proverbs and a closing note on Grange kindness and odd death remedies.
A lengthy critique argues that at least twenty percent of farm capital is wasted due to overextending land and poor resource allocation. It urges owning less land, improving yields, and better manuring while criticizing the low farming standard driven by land hunger. It also endorses reading habits and varied diets for health and progress, with social notes on fashion trends.
A humorous letter mixes news of Addie having a baby with swapping for a horse. The writer equivocates, mislabels, and jokes about the baby being the horse, and ends with light regional quips and a Kentucky anecdote. The tone is playful obituary of propriety and rural humor.
A countryman in Savannah saw a gang of negroes at work in the street with ball and chain on their legs. He asked one why the ball was chained. The slave replied it was to keep people from stealing it. The remark ends with noting a heap of thieves about.
The Hartford Courant notes 1870 figures: 202 lightning deaths nationwide, 148 male and 54 female, amid nearly 500000 total deaths. It compares rates to 1860, discusses sunstroke toll, and ends with a quip about self harm versus lightning.
A clergyman consoles a widow describing her late husband as a jewel of a Christian and true man. She sobs and replies that she could indeed find another equal, challenging the claim with quiet resolve.
A young man recalls pressure exerted after a hug mistaken for a brotherly gesture by a young woman. The incident is recounted with emphasis on social tension and personal response.
A miscellany of stray jests and anecdotes: a grammar lesson ends with a misread butting joke, a boastful Roanoke County postmaster applicant admits a checkered past, a sailor explains a quadrille, a mercantile traveler misreads a door, a French court witness remark on confidence, and quips on wisdom, cholera socks, and ants.
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