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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 08, 1883
Page
1
The Wesleyan Advocate warns that farmers are abandoning fields for towns, endangering Georgia’s countryside. It urges action to stop the migration, promote profitable farming, reinforce schools, and create roadfront settlements with shared social and economic benefits.
The page fragment recalls a midsummer march and a soldier’s hymn in a camp, then shifts to Pompeii excavations begun in 1748 and the plaster casts revealing victims’ poses. It notes 1,100 deaths estimated, 450 bodies found, and Fiorelli’s method to preserve death poses for posterity.
The text notes rapid growth in the South with improving transportation, farmers expanding, towns pushing large scale business, and Yankee influence aiding progress. It also includes a tip about managing bee nests to maintain moisture for hatching eggs and a Chicago Journal remark on hunger and vice.
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