20 Mar 1874
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1874
Page
1
Public notice pricing details outline rates for inserts, listing in a local newspaper advertising section. It notes base charges per square, list fees, and additional costs for multiple insertions or late payment. Names of candidates and corporate promotions incur standard or special rates. private interest messages are treated as advertising.
A fragment from a Classical style meditation on the body as a temple and divine light contrasts with a humorous sophomore logic tale at a family dinner. The poem invokes eternal forms and the Father’s love, while a joke ends with a quip about a third chicken and a proposed cowhiding.
A portrait of Tom Marshall recounts his duels with James Watson Webb and others, including Rowan and Jackson, plus Mexican War incidents and a Cassius M. Clay standoff. It notes his congressional stance against New England and his vivid, larger‑than‑life persona as a Western statesman.
A 19th century hearing showed a comma in the tariff bill of 1872 created a $2,000,000 tax error by placing all fruit on the free list. The Ways and Means Committee moves to remove the comma, aligning with the law’s original intent. The article mixes satire and public notices reflecting era concerns and advertising philosophy.
The piece surveys wedding garlands in various lands, noting Normandy roses, Italian jasmine, German myrtle, and orange blossoms favored by modern German aristocracy. It recounts crown heights, the ritual of crowning, and the custom of preserving wreaths as keepsakes.
The article catalogs railway signals with whistle meanings and signals used on tracks. It then recounts three brief vignettes: a mother’s lesson on resisting the devil, a Mississippi tale about a grocer and a sugar fixed misdeal, and a Maine woman winning a small fortune from an oyster feast with funeral costs noted.
A jumble of witticisms and brief quips fills the column, including moral maxims about honesty, laziness, and manners, a conundrum about a boy and his sister, streetcar quips, a joke on Milton and a shrew, and a note on rising times for men and wives. It closes with a meditation on infidelity and hymns and a half-sung verse about a Havana cigarette.
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