20 Dec 1878
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1878
Page
1
The excerpt blends remedies and seasonal lore with a Christmas story. It mentions a range of items from patent medicines to poetic verses, then shifts to a heartfelt tale of Grandparents guiding grandchildren through Christmas Eve. A tale of joy, generosity, and the moral of giving over receiving ends the piece.
A rambling 19th century style missive recounts a drunken incident in Michigan with a wife scolding her husband and blister therapy. The writer shifts to social critique attacking Grab-Bags church gambling, church choirs, and inebriated organists. The piece blends personal anecdote with sermons on morality and public decency.
An advertisement extols Green's August Flower as a universal remedy for liver and digestive ailments. It claims the liver governs health and urges readers to try sample bottles at 10 cents, asserting cures for dyspepsia and related symptoms.
A ragged column blends philosophy with farm life noting Tosh Billings and reflectively urging study and experiment in agriculture cooking and homemaking. It emphasizes farmers wives daughters and cooks learning from books and peers while praising practical farming and kitchen skill.
A 19th century commentary warns tight lacing injures digestion and appetite, claims waist compression is deforming and harmful, with references to fashion vice and medical authority. The piece jokes about remedies and critiques social trends, including legal and personal anecdotes.
A vivid Edwardian era miscellany recounts a vastly deformed youth born 1857 in New York, describing his three foot height and immense waist while noting doctors and scientists deem him a perfect baby in mind and body. The piece also shares curios about a famed rifle performer Tom Potter and a talkative observer Abner, ending with a moral about the happiness of life.
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