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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1871
Page
1
The notice outlines subscription terms for one year at $300 and six months at $200, with advertising rates: ten lines or less $100 for the first insertion and 75 cents for each subsequent. It states rewards for repeated insertions, paid advertising for transient notices, candidate notices at $5, and obituary notices over five lines at regular rates. Communications to the proprietor will be treated as confidential.
A long verse depicts a model factory where the Heart wheel, Brain wheel, and Watchful Faith keep work bright. Care, Sloth, Gossip, Pleasure, and Envy threaten but are checked by prayer and song. Pearl Rivers ends with a moral on home thrift and character. Interwoven prose condemns homelessness and praises industrious virtue via Anna Dickinson and Sol Miller exchange.
A New York Hudson Valley tale recounts a widow in a large manor during the Civil War who, alone with a ten thousand dollar sum, confronts a masked intruder aided by Dinah the housekeeper. She feigns sleep, triggers the safe’s exposure, escapes, and with her husband returns to seize the thief, who is captured and jailed. The story shifts to moral reflections on society and a coda of assorted historical and humorous notes.
Advice to the Girls warns against valuing a man by talk or looks and urges practical virtues over vanity, while a lengthy note on timber cutting explains sap timing for beech logs and shares basic measurement conversions from the era. The piece blends social guidance with a practical correspondence to the Scientific American.
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