16 Dec 1870
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1870
Page
1
Planters shown a new mixed fertilizer formula claimed to match phosphate effects at far lower cost. The compound uses sulphate of lime dissolved bones sulphate of soda nitrate of soda sulphate of ammonia common salt and potash. Ready to supply ten unit packages for 32, with instructions and agents across principal towns. Wholesale druggists Macon Ga.
A committee report from the Hancock County Agricultural Club analyzes corn and cotton results from several fertilizers at Mr. R. Pappay’s experimental lot in White Plains Greene County. Home Made Fertilizer shows more unopened bolls than others. costs per acre and weights are listed for Pendleton Manure Peru vian Guano Hoae Mape Ferritizer Sea Fowl Manure Hoyt s Superphosphate and the homemade mix. The committee offers to reveal the homemade formula and sell chemicals with directions at 32 00 per ton, urging early orders.
Vivid verse describes autumn across the landscape with blue haze over woods. Trees glow yellow, brown and red while nuts drop and rills ripple. Birds head south as parting songs gloomily fill the air in bleak November weather.
The text parodies a quirky allminax commentary praising a good year, with odd maxims on debt, elegance, and lambs. It features jests about astronomy, hornets, keys, and a punny conversation about Arabs and desert sandwiches, ending with a note on a wooden wedding and mermaids.
A detailed, nongraphic account recounts the death of Sarah Gladstone, a privately housed prostitute, describing her decline, the impact of a ruined life, and her final hours as she foretold she would die at midnight. Henry the clerk and two doctors witness her farewell before the stormy night ends with her passing.
A verbatim showman’s speech on the Homerican Woodchuck describes a creature newly discovered by General Columbus in Homerica. The narrator mocks showmanship, notes the woodchuck’s quirks, and interjects quips about fate and hope, ending with a pun about the letter Y and a Russian autocrat.
A poem celebrates identity with Nobody as beloved, then shifts to a stream of historical miscellany. An elderly tale shows a dismayed Williamsport householder and a comic encounter with Sambo and a rat. The piece surveys horse age, human energy, and a parade of curious anecdotes and quotations from contemporary papers.
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