14 Mar 1873
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 14, 1873
Page
1
The Appeal lists fractions of a dollar for one square ads at ten lines or less, with 75 cents for each additional insertion. Yearly advertising earns liberal discounts. Obituary notices over five lines pay standard rates. Candidates’ names cost five dollars. Transient ads require payment at insertion. late payment adds twenty five percent. Corp and society notices treated as advertisements. Proprietor contact for letters.
Poem on a mother’s influence echoes through society. A King of Prussia needle-borer story shows precision and care. A lost cow ad promises ten dollars reward for return to Newark. A brittle social quip notes marriage fidelity before social outings, ending with a modern warning to investigate.
A Richmond Enquirer letter from a Maine regiment describes Gettysburg scenes including a wounded soldier asking for water and a farewell to his father. The London Saturday Review debates spiritualism with Lincoln’s murder cited as a test. a discussion on airborne seeds and pulmonary disease follows. Short pieces honor a Sister’s love, critique why men marry, and excerpt Georgia General Assembly acts from 1873 outlining numerous county, railroad, and public works measures.
A tale recalls a Port Gibson courthouse summons where a man claiming bachelor freedom is rejected as unqualified. The piece notes a judge’s quip about bachelor hall duration and the standard for freehold status. It then outlines U S Postal Service rules that once a letter leaves the sender’s hands it is under delivery control and, if undeliverable, must be returned to the sender through the dead letter office or per any on envelope requests.
Mr D I L Craig announces a finished automatic telegraphy system claiming clear fifteen hundred words per minute over 300 miles between Washington and New York and six hundred words per minute over thousands of miles with repeaters. Perforating machines prepare messages at 100 to 140 words a minute. The claim ranks this invention alongside electric telegraphy. Also included are short items urging daily reading, warnings about opium in child syrups, and beer barley consumption in St Louis.
A stylish young woman dropped a false eyebrow in a church pew startling a nearby man who mistook it for his moustache, causing a brief moment of embarrassment.
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