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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 16, 1871
Page
3
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A garbled advertisement extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a pure tonic and stimulant. It claims to strengthen the stomach bowels liver and glands, aid digestion and debility, purify body fluids, and benefit digestion headaches fevers and nervous conditions, urging readers to purchase at local drugstores.
The Sunday School Convention of the Americas District Conference meets in this city on the Wednesday before the third Sunday in September next. Subjects include exhibitions at Mercer University, a grand concert at Andrew Female College, and local school and road development plans.
The text notes steady comarket prices at 18 cents for middlings and cotton activity with mixed movement across grades. It records Savannah cotton at 19 1/4 to 19 1/2, and Baltimore flour, scarce wheat, and active grain markets with corn at 83 to 86 cents and yellow at 78 to 80 cents. Prices for pork, bacon, lard, and whiskey are listed with fractional cents and rising trends in some items.
The institution announces this year's commencement events beginning Friday the 23rd in College Hall at 9 AM. Activities include morning sermons, memorial services for Bishop James O Andrew, chair lectures, examinations, a physical training exhibition, instrumental and vocal concert, literary address, and graduating exercises through Thursday the 29th.
The Commissioners appoint Theodore W. Parmlee and others to take testimony in southern claim cases unable to be heard in Washington. Appointees are in multiple cities, paid three dollars per day plus twenty cents per hundred words, with limited jurisdiction excluding rent or military occupation claims. Andrew Johnson contemplates a Tennessee First District run for Congress, with the New York Herald saying he could win and would aid Butler and the Constitution.
In 1864 Richmond city officials offered General Lee a mansion as thanks for his defense of the city. He declined, saying money should aid his soldiers. He refused other offers of pay for nonrendered work, and declined a house and annuity for Mrs Lee, choosing to earn his bread by his own labor as an example to the people.
At the Overton Hotel in Memphis Hon Jeff Davis met with Horace Greeley in a cordial, politics-free exchange. They discussed Mrs Davis and the Blair family with no reference to current events, and Greeley recalled General Quitman as a friend. A Chattanooga letter quotes Davis denying armed rebellion and disloyalty to the government.
Kingston dispatch describes a lively June 6 picnic in Fort Gaines Georgia with abundant food and merriment. Guests later attended Prof Robinson directed dances, including Creole Waltz and Coquette Waltz, amid a festive crowd led by notable locals.
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