24 Mar 1870
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1870
Page
1
Subscription terms for one year at two hundred dollars in advance precede a long poem about woman’s work. The verse celebrates duties from childrearing to nursing the sick, guiding servants, and supporting others, ending with the gravitas of a grave and dust to dust.
A minister notes a son’s reading habits hurt his grades and uses a basket of apples to illustrate limits. The father warns dime novels crowding the home fill the basket, preventing growth. The son learns the point, and no dime novels appear afterward. Washington reports a Massachusetts petition to Congress over past treason and suffrage, and the New York Foundling Asylum records 150 babies in a crib since late November.
We sight a sly Yankee brig with white deck houses and ragged sails. Our party boards her after a perilous chase, finding a bloodied cabin, a murdered captain, and a lone ape aboard as we recover our ship from the savage predicament.
A grieving husband laments his wife’s death in a long lament full of humor and memory. The piece recalls a gravestone tale linked to Tabitha Ripley and a humorous note about funeral printing and a family’s sorrowful reflections.
Nahum Briggs finds a wayward tenant a widow Barbara Wylie and her little girl crave a boarding house. After a humorous parlor audition the old bachelor offers a single lifelong boarder as a condition of marriage with Barbara. The scene closes with plans to marry tomorrow.
A zealous English reporter, chasing a rival scoop, discovers a man’s body hanging from a tree. He hides the corpse in a grove but is later questioned for murder. A confession in the victim’s pocket reveals suicide, clearing the reporter though the tale reads like a cautionary press-room fable.
A Wisconsin La Crosse resident, 83 year old Justin Jacobs Exq, meets a former Eastern life companion while a train delay leads to rekindled affection. They renew their old love with plans for a future Eastward visit as a committee ponders the moment of happiness.
A London Mail report outlines Professor Gamgee's chemical method to preserve meat for up to twelve months using carbonic oxide and nitrogen in a controlled chamber. The process aims to reduce perishable losses, enable longer storage, and supply meat to English and colonial markets with minimal flavor or texture changes.
A husband asks about his wife's condition. the doctor replies that she faces a difficult prognosis. The exchange underscores the seriousness of her illness and the emotional weight on her spouse.
An essay recounts the conversion of a bleak Hudson River edge into the New York Central Park with green avenues, lakes, cascades, and statues. It contrasts the past rotted strife and filth with modern beauty and moral uplift guided by Christian education and reform.
A travel sketch details Japanese sleeping customs including a floor mat bed and a long padded robe. The author notes a peculiar eight inch high tea cushion used for head balance and recounts an unsuccessful attempt to sleep with the box like pillow, dreaming of beheading.
A cargo of horns landed on Boston wharves this week direct from California. The annual U S imports are large though many horns come from Texas and not California. Last lot received numbered 27 500. Horns are mostly large buffalo horns some Asian imports arrive in small quantities. There is speculative trade in these articles put to many uses unknown to readers. A nearby factory chemically alters them into articles such as knife handles paper cutters and buttons. They also produce parlor ornaments and jewelry that can be colored and fashioned from horn for inexpensive purchases.
Dr Chas Nes of the borough aided a poor woman in a heavy storm. A lightning strike damaged a gun barrel on her property, inspiring thoughts that led to the invention of steel production by electricity. Letters patent may yield millions. the grateful old lady’s pity accompanied the tale.
A garbled item discusses raisin potatoes and manure use with lime and ash as fertilizers, promising cost efficiency and soil benefits. The piece shifts to a comic domestic scene featuring a Mrs Malony debt exchange with her husband, ending with lively Irish dialogue.
A brief item notes a young woman being encouraged to exercise for health, with a plan to jump start under an offer at a nearby rink.
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