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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1867
Page
1
A compact poetry item mixing imagery of tomorrow and longing. The speaker oscillates between hope and loss, contrasting today’s wrecks and joys with the promises of tomorrow. Included is a short devotional closing addressed to a beloved, ending with the author’s initials.
A fragmentary 19th century notice cites a vast hall in Saint Petersburg, Russia, 640 feet long and 150 wide, used for military displays by day and a grand ballroom by night with 15 stoves and 20,000 wax candles. It mentions a single arch roof supported by bars weighing 12,880,000 pounds, plus a printing ad for ESL blanks and paper products priced at two pounds per quire.
A historical sketch traces Deborah Read Franklin's life from her Philadelphia birth in 1705 through her marriage to Benjamin Franklin in 1730, detailing family dynamics, Franklin's London years, Deborah's management of the household, and their long partnership despite trials, with notes on their children and her death in 1774.
A collage of jokes and anecdotes in a dated tone includes misread political quips about the New York editor and Greeley, a sailing via the Arctic light, and rustic wit. It features a string of humorous vignettes about matrimony, cats and sparrows, a jelly-loving lover, a sickly joke about a man’s breath, a taxi car scene, and a minister’s Sabbath anecdote. The note references a lunar eruption discussion and a Utah Legislature petition context, yielding a snapshot of light social humor and scattered curiosities.
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