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The notice lists payment and insertion rules for newspapers: ads must be paid with cash, rates apply per insertion or per word, annual discounts given to yearly advertisers, repeat ads must note frequency or risk continued publication, transient ads require payment upfront, 25 percent late charges after expiration, obituaries incur standard rates, candidate announcements have a five dollar rule, corporate or private interest promotions count as ads, printwork like pamphlets and blanks offered at reasonable rates, and all sender letters to the proprietor will be addressed promptly.
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Georgia
General Assembly
Wordplay Verse On Dying, Deeds, And Deceptions
A playful verse set explores homophones and puns from deer to dyeing and writing to right. It riffs on misreadings and shifts in meaning across seasons, words, and actions, concluding with a meta note that the tail end of tale may feel stale.
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Thole
Wright
Mars
India Rubber Belt Yields Long Lived Sap Boosts Trade
The belt around the equator hosts trees that yield India rubber sap for twenty seasons with no damage. One man gathers sap from eight trees daily, each yielding about three tablespoons. A mile by eight tract counts forty-three thousand trees. Across America and Europe there are over one hundred manufactories employing about five hundred workers each, consuming over ten million pounds of gum yearly. Exports of Athridis corn to Germany and Italy reach nearly half a million bushels in five months.
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Globe
Equator
India
America
Europe
Germany
Italy
Georgia 1873 Finance and Agriculture Plan Report
Report to the General Assembly on 1873 state finances shows receipts of 3.172 million dollars and expenditures of 2.250 million, with debt service of 1.335 million. It urges valuation reform, a State Department of Agriculture, revised lien laws, and convicts policy, noting fertilizer imports and agricultural decline. It urges measured taxation and a focus on farming as the state’s leading industry.
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Giorcia
AmLanTa
General Assembly
Treasury
Comptroller General
Georgia
Department of Industry
Department of Agriculture
James M. Smrra
Curing Skins in Brine without Hair Removal
A correspondent shares a recipe to cure skins without removing hair. Use ten gallons soft water, half bushel wheat bran, seven pounds salt, dissolve and soak twelve hours. Remove, wash, re-immerse twelve hours more if needed, then take out, wash, dry, and beat soft. Includes a reflective aside on time passing.
A Second Youth for Man If He Looks Forward
The passage reflects on middle life and the march of time from youth to old age. It contrasts the pensive autumn mood with the idea that a second, better youth awaits those who choose forward focus over looking back, guiding a man through earnest work toward the grave and home.
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Earth
Anteus
Iz. Wbeecher
Virtues of the Lemon and Odd Health Tidbits
Dr Hill extolls lemons as cooling remedies for feverish patients noting sugar enhances soothing acidity. Absurd streetcar scene in Detroit features seven strangers misdirected by a cross eyed man. Botts poultice remedies and blood cleansing hints appear alongside a schoolgirl’s spelling feud and a lunatic asylum patient’s self harm incident.
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Walking Cyclopedia of Health
Hill
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