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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 14, 1873
Page
1
The Appeal lists ad pricing and rules for its Friday paper. Notices require cash with orders, rates vary by insertion count, 25 percent late fees apply, and candidate announcements cost five dollars. Obituaries beyond five lines priced as standard ads.
The poem laments daily cares and small demands that erode strong lives. It contrasts heroic feats with minor irritants, urging humble patience and inner resilience. It reflects on fame, wealth, and the enduring cosmos as a backdrop to human frailty.
The article laments youths avoid manual trades preferring genteel clerical work and offices. It argues lack of practical trades harms employment prospects and warns parents against pushing sons into clerks and bookkeepers. It urges valuing skilled trades like hatting, shoemaking, and smithing.
A humorous American reminiscence lists beliefs in George Washington Isaac Newton Bonaparte Shakespeare and other figures. The piece mocks sentiment by pairing historic icons with folk lore and quips about battles, heroes, and a stray tale of a man and an apple tree.
An old tally lists outcomes for 2540 rulers across 64 nations. Destinations include 299 dethroned, 64 abdicated, 20 killed by self, 11 went mad, 100 died in battle, 123 prisoners, 25 martyrs, 151 assassinated, 62 poisoned, and 108 sentenced to death. A warning to aspiring monarchs and a joke about ducks and bills concludes.
An Iowa paper quotes a Minnesota country paper asking who swindled the Indians out of such an infernal cold country as Minnesota is and who deluded the white people into it.
The fireside embodies the freest family exchange of affections and fears. It weaves the lives of all members into one shared memory. absent kin are kept close, while lessons and joys linger longest in the hearthside atmosphere and history.
An old man resembles an old wagon. with careful use it lasts, but heavy load or sudden strain breaks it. Many reach fifty to seventy with health and wisdom, yet must heed age. An old constitution breaks easily and mends slowly, and a single harmful act can ruin a valued life in an hour.
Poem recounting a midnight watchman disturbed by burglars and the vigil of law in a city. The speaker laments brave sleep and the peril of night as burglars move unseen.
A disease, called black cholera or malignant spotted fever, sweeps Crawford county Illinois with no recoveries. In Robinson a town of about 800, deaths average two daily, and nearby a 200 inhabitant town reports fifteen deaths with four unburied corpses in one house. The illness continues to spread with its malignant form.
A cooper, blacksmith, carpenter, shoemaker, bricklayer, tailor, merchant, lawyer, and others vent frustration with their allotted roles. Each longs for a different life as heat and toil wear them down, revealing a universal complaint: contentment eludes them all. The piece peers into a society where everyone mutters about their lot and accepts little.
A Stockton Herald correspondent shares a claimed small-pox cure recipe using zinc sulfate and foxglove, with instructions for dosing and a note it also cures scarlet fever. The piece embeds a political aside from Marx Twat and mentions legal moves by Boardman in the Stokes case, including potential appeals.
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