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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 21, 1873
Page
3
The fragmentary text references a loyalty issue involving Britain and a German context. Named entities are unclear due to garbled OCR, but mentions Britain and Germany in a historical frame. No clear event, date, or organization can be confirmed from the legible words.
Spring greetings and local notices fill this page. A death in Mrs. Roper’s family is recorded, plus requests for a girl seeking a home, fire news from Lumpkin, and updates from the Literary Association and Confederate Monument efforts. A shooting accident injures a boy, and notices joke about a circus by Wooten and local transport at the Cuthbert Sale and Livery Stable. Potatoes fetch $1.25 a bushel with defense of farming choice over cotton.
The item highlights fresh notices and ads found in the current newspaper, signaling new offerings and public announcements. It notes variety across categories without quoting specific names or figures.
A satirical chronicle describes a city procession of women in beaded nets and crimped hair, followed by a black-clad speaker. The crowd floods dry goods stores and grocers, asks for funds for repairs, and finishes with a spree at a saloon amid oysters, ale, and expenses.
A local appeal from Andrew Female College thanks contributors to the Andrew Fund. The letter urges Cuthbert citizens and regional committees to increase support, noting a promising cash collection and urging continued generosity to educate and uplift the South Georgia community. The notice frames giving as moral and communal duty.
The snippet shows a Cuthbert prices current page with various commodities such as bacon shoulders pork hams lard corn grain sugar syrup and molasses. It records per pound per bushel and per barrel prices with multiple figures and abbreviations.
The piece extols thousands already gone and urges more to seek homes in the West via the Missouri Pacific Railroad. It praises the line’s track and equipment, claims prompt connections west, and notes a completed Texas link with options via Sedalia or Vinita. Contact details for passenger agents are provided.
A fragmentary ad section promotes Dr Tutt s Sarsaparilla and Queen s Delight as cures for scrofula ulcers tumors mercurial and syphilitic affections and blood diseases. It touts Ha Gay s Maanoura Baum for skin whitening and Desdemona style praise. Also mentions Dr Pierce s Golden Medical Discovery for throat and lung ailments and a Charleston door sash and blind factory by P P Teale with a price list.
The Atlantic & Pacific Railroad Co offers 1 200 000 acres in Central and Southwest Missouri at 33 to 120 dollars per acre with seven years time and free transport from St Louis to buyers. Includes climate soil timber mineral wealth schools churches and law abiding society inviting emigrants from all points to this land of fruits and flowers. For particulars contact A Tuck Land Commissioner Lotis Mo Feb 2S.
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