Th Pacific Coast League closes in on title
The league race tightens as top clubs contend for the lead with key matches this week. Coaches and players focus on defense and fast breaks while spectators anticipate a decisive finish in late season play.
25 Jul 1873
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1873
Page
1
The league race tightens as top clubs contend for the lead with key matches this week. Coaches and players focus on defense and fast breaks while spectators anticipate a decisive finish in late season play.
The Appeal states papers are printed every Friday morning and will stop at the end of time paid. It notes orders without payment will receive no attention and no papers will be sent without cash.
The notice outlines advertising rates including one square ten lines or fewer at 100 and 75 cents for each additional line. Yearly advertising receives deductions. transient ads must be prepaid or incur 25 percent late fees. Candidates’ announcements cost 9.00, with cash required. Obituary notices over five lines follow standard rates. All ads and letters to the proprietor receive prompt attention.
A Worcester memorial recounts a once promising Connecticut lawyer who became a drunkard. He served as a colonel, suffered a life of debauchery across ships and continents, and died at thirty six in Elizabeth New Jersey. The note contrasts temperance with his ruin. It also cites brief items on fires in Boston, Butler’s political notoriety, U S railway mail mileage, Col Charles Marshall’s Lee biography, and Stubbs on pillow cases.
Dr J P Stephens argues the Order of Patrons of Husbandry offers unity and mutual aid to Georgia planters facing economic pressure from railroads, cotton markets, and middlemen. He urges Southwestern farmers to join Leesburg based Patrons to gain education, cooperation, and lower costs while resisting financial predators.
A fragment reports Vienna hotel keepers mistrust Americans and insist on exact settlement of charges, noting they present their bills on time. The item hints at friction in hospitality practices and financial dealings between locals and foreign guests.
In a New York Morning Letter, we observe Wall Street figures at 9 a m entering offices as banks open. The Manhattan Bank head Morrison a self-made Scotch Presbyterian walks from 9 to closing, while Stout of Shoe and Leather leads with Methodist vigor and diligence. Winston of Mutual Life works long hours as an Episcopalian and financier of benevolent causes. Clews arrives early, greets all, and remains until after 5, a generous Union League patron living at the league rooms. The piece contrasts old and new business eras in rich men’s behavior.
The Hebrew Educational Society School of New Orleans reports a unique multiplication challenge. Students must multiply 9 by 9 and % by 81 repeatedly for nine steps, using each result as the next multiplier. Miss Sallie F. Salomon wins a silk prize after three months of study, completing 263 numeral compounds and 90,000 figures across four or five square yards of paper.
A person seeking a letter of administration asks the Judge of Probate if he resides elsewhere. The judge replies he is the judge, prompting the applicant to joke about a number of “fatherless scorpions” and offering to be “sacrificed” if a letter of condemnation is granted.
A collection of quotes from Turner and others insists success comes from labor not talent. Dr Arnold, Reynalds, Johnson, Sydney Smith and Mirabeau emphasize directed effort, sustained toil, and purpose. The piece urges recognizing the value of labor over innate genius and cautions against counting steps in life’s long road.
A sharp old man with a stutter visits a grocer and asks for the four toughest turkeys. The grocer selects the four, claiming they are the tough ones, and the customer points to the remaining four, declaring he will take those.
A man died in a drunken fit with a jury ruling death by banging round a rum shop. The phrasing insulted his family, while a California case deemed the event accidental death while unpacking glass.
A young man argues experience shows a first to be a fool who fools others, and the fool who is fooled by such a fool is the most foolish. He says he has been badly fooled and urges judging wisely.
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