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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Mar 31, 1876
Page
4
The piece details wartime Southern life with soaring prices for goods, widespread home production, and home spun fashion. It notes abundant improvised dyes, dye sources, and substitutes for coffee and bread, including sweet potato chips and sassafras tea, plus extreme pin and needle shortages and rigid economy.
A historical note reproduces a calculation on heavenly measurement from Revelation 21 16 and a speculative estimate of heavenly habitation. The text computes 12 000 furlongs cubed and partitions cubical space into rooms for inhabitants across vast ages. It presents a ponderous scale debate about space, time and eternity.
Bishop Pierce of Texas laments cotton dependence and calls for self sufficiency in bread and meat to avert national ruin. Articles quote costs of cotton farming, including a range from 6.4 to 12 cents per pound, and offer practical tips from a Treasury whitewash recipe to farm management notes. The piece closes with light anecdotes on household remedies and leap year humor. Notes on local farming costs feature Col. C W Howard and various planters across Georgia.
The item lists seed counts per pound for wheat oats rye buckwheat red and white clover and notes up to 250000 animal species total hog production in the northwest at 5566000 head with a nine percent decline from last year and heavier hogs improving total loss to 100 million pounds. It also includes a home remedy with saltpetre and alcohol a claim about Philadelphia Exposition machinery power cost and capacity and a humorous quip about etiquette first calls lasting fifteen minutes and a preacher urging charity with breeches pockets.
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