The Appeal Advertisement and Subscription Rates
The notice outlines subscription terms of one year for 300 dollars and six months for 2 dollars, advance payment required, and penalties for late or unpaid ads. It lists advertising rates: one square up to ten lines at 1 dollar, 75 cents for each additional insertion, with yearly advertisers receiving deductions. It details penalties for ads not prepaid, public notices for candidates at 5 dollars, obituary notices beyond five lines at standard rates, and guidance for placing ads for printed materials with prompt proprietor responses.
Planters Warehouse E Opens Near Randolph Public Square
Removal announces E McDonald has erected a large Commodious Warehouse on depot street near the public square. Central location, near business part of the city, promises to meet planting friends and customers with ample reception arrangements.
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Randolph
E. McDonald
Depot Street
Storage of Cotton and Goods
Thankful for past favors we offer increased advantages and personal attention to give general satisfaction and liberal tonnage. The latest published Commercial News will be at the service of friends and patrons at all times. Liberal cash advances made on cotton and goods in store.
Cuthbert Merchants Promote Cotton Trade and Rail Freight Hope
Consignments solicited with personal attention to sale of cotton and plantation supplies. E McDonald and Co tout lower market prices, wagon yard, well rooms, and free teamsters. They anticipate two new railroad thoroughfares reducing freights and boosting local cotton value. Planters urged to bring cotton to Cuthbert.
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E. McDonald & CO
Andrews Female College Course Notice
Andrew Female College in Cuthsert GA resumes tie exercises on September 20 with terms starting September 20 January 1 and April 1. Regular tuition per term 36.60 45.00 60.00 per annum. board and incidentals extra. Extra courses Greek French music drawing painting calisthenics language instruction by a lady. payments due October January April.
Shadows in the Valley Poem by H L Flash
A mournful poem describes a mossy valley and spring beauty contrasted with autumn shadows. The narrator mourns a loved one buried in a woodland grave marked by a lily tombstone and a dew drop epitaph, awaiting the fading of shadows that dim the heart.
Poems and War News from 1857 Warrants and Mormons
This item blends verse on national decline and oppression with 1857 Warrants for Brigham Young and son for murder tied to Rich ard Yates. It recounts Hickman’s testimony, Salt Lake killings, and Mormon leadership, plus a cockeyed joke about a drunk crewman and a clover lunch trend in New York groceries.
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Uran
Brigham Young
J. A. Young
Richard Yates
Bill Hickman
Yates
Hickman
Salt Lake
D. Wells
Hosea Stout
Joseph A. Young
Wells
Stout
Camp Douglas
Echo Canon
The Wife of Washington and Her Workroom
The piece recalls Mrs Washington at Mount Vernon working in the workroom with servants sewing, knitting, and training enslaved children in domestic arts. It notes her practical generosity, her steady knitting, and her role shaping household labor, while recounting Washington’s rise, marriage, and the couple’s wealth and status in Virginia society.
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Washington
Mount Vernon
Virginia
Bishop Meade
Ins
London
Mme
George
Braddock
Custis
Col. Washington
White House
Colonel Washington
Lost days of shine in the drawing room noted
The passage recalls a woman who once enjoyed duties in the drawing room and social duties, but now considers those days as lost and distant. It contrasts past privilege with present housekeeping emphasis and social expectations.
Peter Holt's Rock Heap
Peter Holt obsessed with digging rock heaps on his farm, despite his wife’s protests and community chatter. Madame La Tours foretells buried treasure under the locust tree, prompting Peter to dig relentlessly until a broken tool ends the effort. he pays his wife and vows secrecy.
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Peter Holt
Peter
Mrs. Holt
Widow Jackson
Lanceburg
Holts
Madame la Tours
Madame
Mrs. Peter
Tie
Manuring the Orchard and Free Soil Advice
Agricultural tips urge thorough medium and deep trench manuring for orchards to revive old trees and boost fruit yields. Use stable manure with ashes lime or bone meal, scatter widely, and trench near trunks to foster root growth and renewal.
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Jersey
Mobile Register
Thompson Brothers Reunite After Twenty Years of Gold Fever
A California mining tale follows two Thompson brothers who split to seek fortune in 1851. One marries before departing for the mines and later vanishes with funds. twenty years later the brothers meet again in Nevada. The wife remained a widow and saved a farm near San Jose, while the brother returns to claim kinship and reconcile. The long separation ends with a joyful valley reunion and renewed hope for both families.
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Virginia
George Washington
Mr. Irving
Washington
Rappahannoc
Joseph Ball
London
California
Thompson
Pacific
Fraser River
San Francisco
Great Slave Lake
Victoria
Idaho
Montana
Salt Lake City
White Pine
Nevada
Eureka
Arizona
Eureka Sentinel
San Jose
Variety notes and anecdotes from diverse topics
A digest of items including a dry goods ad on church street, agricultural ventures in California and Florida, a legal assault on a New Jersey mother, a jack ass entry for a fair, church counts in Boston, a vegetable vendor incident, and a joke about a kitchen fire. The text mixes humorous vignettes with brief social observations and local lore.
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Church Street
Chicago
West
Anna Jickinson
Olive Logan
Leopoldsfied
Hungary
California
St John’ River
Florida
Taming of the Bride Groom Riot Ends With Hat Lost
Mr. Spillman marries a second wife and quarrels erupt over enlarging his dairy. The debate turns physical as Mrs. Spillman pummels him with verbal blows and a poker, driving him to hide under the bed and search for his hat.
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Spillman
Mrs. Spillman
Mr. Spillman
Tam
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Sawtell & Christian
Planters Warehouse
Andrew
Cuthsert GA
Andrew Female College
South
Aidaneelf
John B McGehee
A F.C. Cuthbert
Cuthbert
W.E. Wall
Allison & Simpson’s
H. L. Flash
South Carolina
J. W. Hewitt
Bart
Destiny
Cain
Jack
New York
James Parton
Clara Augusta
Deacon Jones
Jones
Preacher
New Jersey
Boston
Baptist
Episcopalians
Presbyterians
Troy
Vanderhayden
Jenny
Darling
Katy Darling
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