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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1881
Page
3
A fragment from a Georgia area page discusses weather shifting to better conditions, picnic season approaching, and public woes with travel and farming. It mentions local merchants and products such as tea trays, lard, flour, tobacco, and Silver Spray Cologne, plus medicines like British Syrup and Banker's Seminole Liver Regulator, with several shop names and locations scattered through the text.
A broad rural page reports a jolt from a moving train at Ratcher's Station injuring J. E. Stone, with him recovering and a push for safer roads. County schools adopt new texts including Sanford's Arithmetic and Webster's spelling. Farmers begin corn planting as weather allows, while cotton remains largely unharvested in areas near Memphis, signaling a heavy potential loss if seed and season permit.
An advertisement urges farmers to buy Tam Agent for RD COE S original Bone and Acid Phosphates. It claims Andrew Coe, father and uncle of Guano Cova, started Commercial Fertilizers and notes phosphate values rising this season. It lists prices around 400 pounds for Middling Cotton at Acid Phosphate and 475 pounds for Middling Canon for Bore Phosphate, with J. McK. Gunn as supplier.
A playful notice advertises a furniture sale to delight buyers and their spouses. It touts a stock described as ample and attractive, likening the deal to a near new silk dream while inviting customers to purchase.
A fragmentary note discusses farming needs and the idea that purchasing utensils does not guarantee a good crop. It criticizes excessive striving and hats, then mentions reducing stock to lower costs. Signatures implied from McK Gunn and J McK Gunn appear as customary remarks.
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