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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1867
Page
1
Poem by G. B. DynNRAS Ameronille laments cherished voices that cheered in youth now gone. The speaker recalls brighter days, heavenly consolation, and the loss reflected in sorrow as departed loved ones dwell in radiance beyond. Names gathered: Gatherbert Ga June Laer.
Aged pastor lines from a sacred page as the article laments funerary costs in New York. It details morbid undertaker charges, coffins, hearses, and lot expenses, noting the burden on the poor. The piece shifts to rural commerce, describing New Jersey truck farming profits with tomatoes, potatoes, peas, and other crops yielding about $6,000 from an eighty acre farm.
The essay recalls a fatherly choice nine years old to send a child to a city academy at no cost, sparking gratitude for parental prudence. It cautions against easy wealth and “easy ways” that derail character, urging undiluted labor, virtue, and trust in God rather than rely on others. It contrasts ambition with steady training and the dangers of quick fortune.
A reflective piece extols editors and printers for shaping news through vigilance and craft. It compares their unseen labor to digestion, notes correspondents’ influence, and honors the discipline that distills pages from vast material. It also critiques flour whiteness and bread shaping, contrasting class impacts.
A Philadelphia National Baptist instructs readers with a moral tale about Emma and James, showing how drinking leads to lifelong hardship. The story follows past events starting at a party, a broken vow, and later hardship of a drunkard’s family, urging readers to beware the social cost of intoxication.
The article surveys grand world libraries led by Paris with 1,825,000 volumes including the Trperiale and Arsenal, Rome's Can sui Sanatense, Vienna Imperial Library, St. Petersburg Imperial and Academy holdings, Hague Royal Library, Berlin Royal Library, Brussels Public Library, Copenhagen University Library, Dublin and Edinburgh collections, Lisbon and Madrid centers, and London Privy Museum with vast rare collections.
A tale depicts Paul Generosity and Lord Shelburne hearing John Wesley’s unlikely price for his portrait. Wesley agrees to ten guineas for the likeness and buys a poor prisoner’s freedom with half a guinea, while Shelburne orders a dozen busts to honor Wesley's generosity. The item also cites a washing method for preserving colors in dresses and notes a distant prison visit.
A collage of quirky scenes and banter from urban life. Jests about courting with a veiled insult, a miller’s reply, and a railroading stove anecdote mix with slang of the era. A Brooklyn Eagle note on spring fever jokes and a wartime quip about independence echo the newspaper’s lively tone.
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