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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1882
Page
3
A mixed record of community happenings, farming notes, social events, and local incidents in Cuthbert and nearby areas. Reports cover church and school life, mill and crop conditions, marriage announcements, social gatherings, and weather impacts. Mentions of markets, fashion, and upcoming entertainments appear alongside agricultural updates and brief notices about local property and infrastructure.
A garbled 19th century style report describes a Dawson town event with mentions of a grand amphitheatre for two hundred children, performers, and a crowd roped into a hopeful pageant. It shifts to broad notes on migrations, floods, foreign land acts, and anti Jewish persecution in Russia with dire casualty figures and mass movement to America.
A physician endorses Acker’s Blood Elixir as the safest remedy for blood poisoning and related ailments. The ad claims it restores tone and vitals, removes pimples, scrofula, rheumatism, and more, with Mrs. W. Y. Dixson selling it in Europe known formulations. Also advertised are Dr. Acker’s Dyspepsia Tablets and Parker’s Ginger Tonic as stomach, liver, and digestion aids. A separate note mentions Guilteau seeking new clothes and offering a buyer $100 for an old suit.
An eclectic listing touts stationery, fertilizers, bone meal and potash blends, sea fowl and high grade products, Irish potatoes, canned foods, confectioneries, coffee, wines, cigars, ice, and beverages. Also advertised are patent remedies for babies and mothers, household cleaning tonics, and promotional notes from local merchants urging immediate closeout purchases and demonstrations. The column reflects period commercial miscellany and local shop notices with product highlights and testimonial-style blurbs.
A sermon at the Lond table inspires twenty four Christian women of Cuthbert to kneel in prayer, dressed in antebellum colors, as the speaker laments male religious absence and urges greater devotion. He recalls losses from death and calls for renewed faith, urging inaction to end and a push toward the Eternal city. He laments spiritual poverty among men and extols women's vital role in reform and church life.
The Eufaula Bulletin reports a Monday shooting in Quitman County Georgia between a youth named Rains and Mr Finch and his son. The elder Finch struck Rains with a pistol. Rains fired his weapon in defense and wounded both. A shotgun seized, the young Finch struggled, but Rains restrained him and retreated.
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