21 Mar 1873
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1873
Page
1
Advertisements in The Appeal show weekly publication with notices paid in advance and no paper service beyond paid time. Rates list one square ten lines or less at 100, each additional insertion 75 cents, with annual discounts and penalties for late payment. Obituaries and candidate notices priced separately, with general guidance on payment and correspondence to the proprietor.
Prof Wilder of the Cornel University offers short rules for accidents. Avoid rubbing dusty eyes, irrigate with water, remove cinders, and use a pencil point carefully. Compress above or below wounds, cough if choked, cool burns, and cover destroyed skin. Smother fires, breathe deeply then stoop in smoke, avoid carbon. For poison misuse, induce vomiting, use alkalis or acids as advised, and keep moving with opium poison. In water, float on back, head raised. For apoplexy or fainting, raise or lay flat respectively.
A brief compendium of biblical measures and values including a day’s journey thirty three and one fifth miles a Sabbath journey about an English mile and various capacities and currencies such as a shekel of gold thirteen cents a talent of silver five hundred thirty eight dollars and thirty two cents and a penny thirteen cents. Also a proverb about happiness compares it to a pig with its tail greased and everyone running after it.
The list records numerous 1873 acts including bonds for courthouses in Butts and Lee counties, railroad and bank incorporations, county boards of commissioners, town charters, road and tax laws, and various criminal and civil court provisions. It also notes acts not signed by Governor Smith and related legislative resolutions.
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