The Cuthbert Appeal Home Affairs Notes
The cotton market remains weak with no distant gains and 12 cents the best offer. The Cuthbert Guards hold a target practice this afternoon with a silver cup for the best shot and a tin cup for the poorest. A marriage is announced in Calhoun County. Col. Fielder begins a series of vital questions for Southwest Georgia in future issues. A novelty patent cotton planter is praised, joking about signing a lien on a crop and the machine’s backwards use potential.
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Cuthbert Guards
Col. Fielder
South-west
Georgia
Local notes on farming progress and college exercises
An agricultural outlook reports more oats and small grain planted, better farm conditions, and a belief that finances will improve. A visit to a local college describes closing exercises, a new melodeon feature, daily singing, and 86 students in regular attendance.
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Stewart County
Institute of Learning
Ielal
Guano Trade Signals Better Times for Planters
The depot at Cuthbert received 40 car loads about 320 tons of guanos last season costing over nineteen thousand dollars. Farmers and the county likely spent about $30,000 on commercial fertilizers last year. This season only five car loads arrived, a welcome drop that could lower next cotton crop costs. The piece warns against costly ads and urges farmers to make compost heaps at home to save money.
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Cuthbert
Confederate Forces and Fashion News of 1869
An 1869 correspondence summarized by Dr. Joseph Jones and General S Cooper cites Confederate military losses and manpower figures, detailing total forces, deaths, prisoners, and desertions. The piece also reports Paris fashion editors predicting dramatic changes in women’s dresses with short skirts and new basques and corsage styling.
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Joseph Jones
The
Historical Society
Cooper
Confederate States
United States
Confederate States Army
8. Cooper
Leaine
Paris
Drunk Man's Downfall Weighs on Family and Friends
The verse laments a young man who drinks to the point of ruin and the impact on his family. It contrasts a mother’s grief, a father’s shattered hopes, and a wife’s sorrow with a man’s fall. The piece also mocks a young woman’s pout with a reversed question about propriety.
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A.W. Gillespie
Siamese Twins case clarified by medical exam in Philadelphia
The College of Physicians meeting in Philadelphia summarized the telegraphic account of the Siamese twins. Findings show a peritoneal connection and a common umbilical cord with no shared organs, meaning separation would have been fatal. Fainting and distress years ago are explained by the described vascular ties. Texarkana Texas grows into a bustling postwar town with rapid building and multiple services.
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College of Physicians
Philadelphia
Philadelpha
London
The Capitol Dome and Nearby Structures
A survey of the Capitol dome notes its height surpasses the Washington Monument and Trinity Church tower, details its iron hollow construction weighing about 8 million pounds, and compares pressures and costs. It mentions new wings, a planned central rebuild, and park enlargement costs alongside quips on guano fertilization and editorial misprints.
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Capitol
Washington
America
Washington Monument
Baltimore
Banker Hill Monument
Trinity Church
New York
St. Peter
St. Genevieve
Paris
Massachusetts women and their mission in society
An editorial from the Louisville Ledger claims Massachusetts women exert strong influence, especially unmarried women with spare time, who do not vote but shape state affairs. It argues women seek to educate the next generation though children in Massachusetts are scarce and the rising generation is not substantial.
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Massachusetts
Louisville Ledger
Obituary for Mrs. Sarah J. Param of Stewart County
Mrs. Sarah J. Param aged about 29 30 consort of B F Parham of Stewart County died after typhoid pneumonia February 17 after a brief illness. She was a member of the Grangers Benevolent Lodge and was buried by that Order. The notice offers religious consolation to the bereaved urging faith and patience and references a Frisno Christian Advocate request.
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Sarah J. Param
B. F. Parham
Stewart County
Grangers
Benevolence Lodge
W L Baldwin authorized to settle accounts of Smith and Tackett
Notice states W L Baldwin is authorized to settle the accounts and receipts for all monies due the late firm Smith and Tackett. Dated Feb 20, and addressed by Dr. Besson of Bread Street Eufaula Alabama, holding sole wholesale right for Abbott's Liver Medicine. Orders to be sent to him. Oct 24 6m.
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Smith & Tackett
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Eufaula
Ala
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J. C. Huss
Notasulga
Edw
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Lina Shoons
J.C. Hosa
Lerom Co
Tibbe
Kionston
Edw. Smith
D. A
L J Davies
E P Birch
G@ E Smith
W. E. Besson
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