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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 28, 1873
Page
3
Local items report frost affecting potatoes and gardens, frequent gunfire in town at night with no inquests, and greetings for summer premium melons. Obituaries include Clarence Moye and Ephraim Platt. city charter changes favor street work and council selection of officers. Also mentions Rev. Wellborn’s possible sermon, and safety lamps by Perkins and House.
Public notices extol a benzine burning lamp as safe and revolutionary. Professor Kedzie of Michigan Agricultural College calls it a boon to avert kerosene lamp accidents. Sold by W. E. Besson in Eufaula, Alabama. Plus homely musings on business life and the solace found at home with family and warmth.
Corprett and Jackson of Corusert Georgia defend their shop as a respectable confectionery and bakery frequented by ladies in Cuthbert and surrounding areas. They urge Our Dire to mind his own business and deny accusations of a rowdy establishment. General O C Horne speaks on Pulaski county voters and capital relocation issues.
Radway of Ready Relief notoriety and Swain’s Panacea, a prominent patent medicine proprietor, has died. The Alabama Legislature discusses relocating the Capitol to Mobile city.
A letter from a local writer defends motives after accusations of spreading rumors about young ladies and a college. The piece emphasizes exposing gossip to light to curb harm and notes the Wesleyan Female College has resumed sessions with few absentees. Also mentions a stock law and Illinois legislature actions, and Eufaula’s interest in a vagrant ordinance.
Cuthbert prices listed for commodities including cotton bacon clear sides canvassed ham betx shoulders CK lines hams butter Goshen country brick wax gansdles corns oats peas rice oats sugar browns and more. Also notes on flour sugar syrup tobacco per pound and eggs per dozen with varied figures across items.
Thousands seek new homes in the West with Missouri Pacific Railroad offering fast direct service from St. Louis to major western points. The line promotes safe equipment and prompt connections westward including Texas routes via Sedalia or Vinita. Maps and schedules are available from company agents in Chattanooga and St. Louis with prompt responses to questions.
A collage of quack medicine pitches and home cures touts Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Tutt’s Liver Pills as universal fixes. Advertisers praise Moustaxe Liniment for horses and claim broad household use. Claims include skin purifying effects from Sarsaparilla Queen’s Delight and Simmons Liver Regulator praised by a Georgia resident.
The Atlantic and Pacific Railroad Company proposes 1,200,000 acres in central and southwest Missouri at 3 to 12 dollars per acre with seven years’ time and free transport from St. Louis to purchasers. Climate soil timber mineral wealth schools churches and law-abiding society invite emigrants from all points to this land of fruits and flowers. A. Tuck Land Commissioner St Louis Mo February. Dyspepsia treated by Hostetter’s Bitters marketed as a remedy for chronic indigestion and related symptoms, claimed to improve digestion liver function nerves and general vigor.
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