10 Jul 1874
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 10, 1874
Page
1
The Appeal lists general rules for advertising including rates for one square and subsequent insertions, monthly or yearly discounts, payment terms for transient ads, penalties for unpaid periods, and notices for political candidates. It notes continued advertisements until forbidden and that all communications to the proprietor will be attended to.
A Sunday morning scene inside a church reveals vanity and judgment as parishioners gossip about outfits, tempo of the service, and others, including Sue Delaplaine, Bessie Lamont, and Mrs Ward, while stranger details about a minister and a future marriage scheme surface amid a long sermon. The piece ends with a note about the State Agricultural Society meeting at Stone Mountain on August 11 and a stray musing on saving ten cents daily to marry Mary.
A Dahlonega correspondent reports on pan mining in Georgia with improvised gear and earnings from cents to dollars daily as many gather gold from gravel. The piece contrasts this with Dr. Kempster’s brain study of insanity in a Milwaukee asylum and notes Congress failed to pass the Electoral College amendment.
A lengthy column reflects on farming life showing enduring cheer amidst uncertainties like pests, weather, and market swings while urging careful economics for new farmers. It also notes a witty jab about a pig named Ben Butler and recounts an Atlanta Herald summary of a State Agricultural Society contract with Atlanta city for a large fair, detailing premiums, expenses, and grounds preparation.
A column extols prompt work and straight through tasks with a soldierly mindset. It shares a comic anecdote about a washerwoman mix up and closes with a quip about a man who married three sisters and his mother in law.
The Signals Service Bureau has yielded practical weather knowledge and aims to establish a true science of storms. Observations describe barometer behavior during storms, wind patterns, storm movement from the Far West or United States, and how air currents seek to equalize atmospheric pressure across the earth.
Savart and Foucault experiments show wheels reached up to 60 000 revolutions per minute with special mirrors. ordinary amalgam fails and glass or metal mirrors are needed. Bands or strings are required for such extreme speeds, as cog wheels cannot withstand the centrifugal forces at these velocities.
A speaker extols doctors as the hardest worked and least paid in the community. They toil through nights to ease suffering, comfort grieving families, and bring fresh air and hopeful talk into sick rooms. Despite risks, many face neglect when payments are late, though true doctors remain devoted allies.
A stark meditation on the loss of Sunday and its impact on laboring classes. The passage depicts endless toil across factories fields and seas with imagery of exhausted bodies and ruined vitality, questioning a world without Sabbath.
Missouri correspondent notes toads on bee hives feeding on Italian bees and flies. He estimates a small toad could consume up to seventy two bees daily, with risk of catching young queen bees returning from their bridal flight near ground-level hives.
A Missouri druggist admitted he killed a woman by giving her arsenic instead of medicine for saltz. The remark about burned stuff being mired reflects his evasive explanation of the fatal act.
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