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17 Jul 1874
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Cuthbert Appeal in Cuthbert, Georgia
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1874
Page
1
Advertising rates and payment terms in brief
One square ten lines or less costs 100. 75 cents for each subsequent insertion. A liberal yearly discount for advertisers. Indicate frequency or ads will run until forbidden. Transient ads due at insertion. unpaid ads incur 25 percent after time ends. Candidate notices cost 5. Obituaries over five lines charged at standard rates. Corporate or private promotional ads billed as such. Pamphlets and handbills produced promptly at reasonable rates. Letters to the proprietor will be attended to.
A Pilea for the Little Ones Poem Fragment
A sentimental poem urges parents to cradle their children close and cherish them as they grow. It imagines the later regret of missing their voices and footsteps once they are grown or departed for a final shore. The piece repeats the call to hold them near and soften with maternal love.
Wooden narrow gauge railroad built between Wisconsin towns
A wooden track narrow gauge line is being laid between Wau sek a and Redstown Wisconsin under the Chicago and Tomah Narrow Gauge Railway Company. Maple rails 3 by 5 inches are fastened with dowels and wedges costing $15 per board foot. The line is not to open for trains until September and the piece notes wooden railways as a bridge to connect interior regions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wauseka
Redstown
Wisconsin
Chicago and
Tomah
Wee
Grape Culture and Wine Making on Scuppernong Vineyards
W C Bay Jr recounts eight years of scuppernong wine making with success in the South. He notes yields from vines and an expanding vineyard, describes a sparkling wine praised by connoisseurs, and argues for hemp-free harmless beverage production as an alternative to other drinks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. C. Bay, Jr
Why We Are Poor in Georgia and How to Fix It
The piece argues Georgia faces poverty due to reliance on cotton and imported food. It cites figures: about forty million bushels of corn consumed versus fifteen million grown, a proposed cotton profit of twenty seven and a half million dollars, and a small cash balance after paying bills. It urges self sufficiency, urging planters to produce corn and other staples domestically, and to enforce labor to avoid starvation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Georgia
Terrible Thirty Minutes in Wayne County
A mother at a horse-raising near a spring hears her child scream finds a venomous rattlesnake biting the girl then discovers the child drowned in a tub. Returning to the scene the father loses his balance under falling timber and dies. Both children and the snake are dead within thirty minutes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snake
Wayne County
Tennessee
Citi
Be mindful of a spouse’s loss and cherish memory
The passage comforts widowers with reflections on bereavement, urging tenderness toward a deceased wife’s memory and urging living spouses to keep her presence in their hearts. It emphasizes the enduring bond, the hush of empty rooms, and the hope of a happier afterlife guiding future connections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murmer
Insect Destroying Alum Tincture Proposed in Journal
The Journal of Chemistry prints a recipe for an alum based insecticide claiming it kills ants roaches spiders and other pests. Instructions describe dissolving two pounds of alum in boiling water applying the solution to joints shelves and crevices and adding alum to whitewash to repel insects. A chalk line around sugar containers is advised to deter ants. Travelers are urged to carry borax to sprinkle where bed bugs may be present. The piece ends with a South Carolina legislature quip about a caller’s remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal of Chemistry
Ancient English Ritual of the Wedding Ring
The article traces historic ring rites from medieval England showing the Trinity sequence for placing the ring and the fourth finger after the Amen. It notes beliefs about the left hand, Johnson on hogs, shifts from plain to jeweled rings, and the use of rings in Christian ceremonies except among the Society of Friends. It also discusses modern Jewish adoption, value requirements in Judaism, and Irish practice of reuse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnson
Society of Friends
Ireland
The Philosophy of Rain and a London Milkman Joke
The text explains how atmosphere moisture and temperature lead to rain with observations on evaporation, saturation, and cloud formation. It notes warm air holds more humidity, and cooling causes condensation and rain. The piece ends with a pun about a milkman and Pharaoh's daughter profiting from water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Pharaoh’s Daughter
The Fatal Sports at the Hypodrome
A New York Hippodrome feature draws sharp moral concern over frequent deadly mishaps to performers. Reports include a rider thrown from a barriot, a Mexican mustang crash, a barrier pole injuring a dancer, and Miss Oostmeyder fatally pressed by a horse. Barnum receives praise in Bridgeport as tragedies mount.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnum
New York
Bridgeport
Talk up your town and build community spirit
A call to residents to promote local improvements with positive talk and action. Encourage enterprise, support useful projects, and oppose crippling pessimism. The piece emphasizes public spirit, shared progress, and overcoming local opposition with steady effort. It ends with humorous anecdotes about a New York orator and John Henry illustrating persistence.
The Night We Were Glued To Miss Magruder
A humorous reminiscence from the Saturday Evening Post about a summer evening with Miss Magruder on her porch. A carpenter’s glue pot, a stuck couple, and a shotgun rescue by Magruder’s father end up dissolving a young romance and leaving a lesson on youthful infatuation and glue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Magruder
Miss Magruder
A True Lady Defies Outer Spark and Social Rank
The piece argues that true worth in women comes from heart and character, not appearance or finery. It lauds kindness, balanced temperament, and moral greatness as the basis for respectful, loving wives and mothers, contrasting with vain superficial beauty-seekers.
Bibb County Grand Jury Proposes Tax and Reform Measures
The Bibb county grand jury recommends abolishing the county treasurer position, caps county tax collector commissions at 2500 dollars, buys 200 acres to create a poor farm with able residents made to work, and allocates 8000 dollars for this purpose. They urge a 1.50 dollar annual dog tax to compensate sheep owners, with excess beyond 500 dollars to support schools, and propose indicting owners of houses of ill fame.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bibb County Grand Jury
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West
Cuthbert
South Carolina
John Henry
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