24 Jan 1879
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1879
Page
1
An ornate, partial text mixes ritual lodge lines with legal provisions on exemptions, a vivid crime recounting missing child details, and promotional hair tonics. The fragment also includes moralizing verse, reminiscences, and scattered ads for medicines and services, reflecting a chaotic 19th century newspaper page.
An impoverished Yalian gentleman with a life income gives his servant girl three francs to buy a lottery ticket after she dreams No 41144 will win. The next day the report shows the prize of 518,652 pounds, or $100,000, and he proposes marriage at once. The bride admits spending the money on a boat instead.
A fragment bearing on the newspaper as a business and public service notes its murky, anonymous operations. It remarks that readers treat it with curiosity and contempt, using it for ads, opinions, and news, while the staff remain largely unseen and unnamed despite the paper’s vitality and reach.
A man boarded a Woodward avenue car and used a rubber shoe trick to cause embarrassment among fourteen ladies. He dropped the shoe, pretended to see it, and asked who lost it. He offered to return it for a fee, prompting silence and awkward stares as the crowd avoided claiming the item. The hoax ends with a quip about the shoe and a warning to ignore further attempts.
The article describes a leather belt capable of lifting 1,000 pounds and discusses plates of steel ingots rolled to uniform thickness. It notes silver’s high reflectivity, speculum metal reflections, watch screw counts, and the impracticality of certain components. It references processes in factories and material behavior under moisture, air, and water exposure.
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