30 Jul 1875
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jul 30, 1875
Page
1
The Appeal lists publication rates and rules including payment terms for ads and obituaries, with penalties for overdue amounts. It notes the need for cash with orders, yearly ads receive deductions, and mentions special charges for candidate notices and private notices.
Poem describing a lively boy full of mischief and energy. The speaker celebrates his fearless nature and quirky remarks while warning of temperance and fate that could shape him into a man. The piece contrasts the boy’s chaos with affection and concern from guardians.
A white bachelor flatters a Black laundress wife and her husband retorts with a blunt moral quip about misfitting shirts. The Vicksburg Herald records the exchange as a pointed social anecdote showing race and class stereotypes in a racially mixed era.
The Baltimore American reports Mr. W. F. Schroeder has secured a U S patent for a balloon driven balloon vessel intended to travel New York to London in fifty hours. A 60 by 10 by 12 foot life boat frame with a 70 000 cubic foot gas balloon and a twelve horsepower engine will power side propellers. The craft carries gas pumps extra balloons and can hold fourteen passengers.
From the New York Weekly a tale of a wedding interrupted by a Cheyenne abducter ends with the bridegroom’s capture and a wounded insurgent kept as a prisoner. Other items include a dramatic suicide tale of a dead child guided by angels and a baptism misadventure at a creek led by a Baptist minister.
A Detroit native recounts coming to Minnesota for health and crediting the climate with dramatic recovery from blindness and paralysis while living with a family. other vignettes include a freedman quip about being master and a catfish legend from Jones county.
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