24 Nov 1871
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Nov 24, 1871
Page
1
The notice outlines subscription terms at $3 yearly and $12 for six months, and advertising rates for one square ten lines at $1 for the first insertion and 75 cents each subsequent, with yearly terms and advance payment required. Obituary and longer notices priced by lines, with penalties for transient ads and paid in full at insertion.
RE McDonald announces a new large commodious warehouse on the south side of the depot near the Sinker, inviting planters from Randolph and neighboring counties. The facility promises enhanced reception arrangements and inducements for the planting public to consign their goods.
Thankful for past favors we hope, with increased advantages and personal attention, to give general satisfaction and merit a liberal patronage. The latest published Commercial news will at all times beat the service of our friends and patrons. Liberal cash advances made up cotton and goods in store.
Consignments solicited for Scotta bagging ties salt guano threshing machines cotton gin wagons buggies harness and more. Plantation supplies sold at low market prices. We anticipate two new rail routes to reduce freight and improve the city trade. Planters are urged to deliver cotton to Cuthbert E McDonald & Co.
The Andrew Female College in Guthbert GA resumes exercises on September 20 with terms starting September 24 January 1 and April 1. Programs include regular and extra courses with listed fees for primary to collegiate diplomas, board, washing, fuel, and textiles.
A fragmentary verse piece depicts a narrator waving a banner of flame and praising treason while mocking virtue. The speaker revels in destruction, murder, and violence, urging others to join a path toward hell as they tear down the good and force imprisonment and ruin.
A European observer recalls Chinese jugglers at a royal audience in Kinsai, where a conjuror performs a dangerous levitation act and reassembles a boy after dramatic dismemberment. The piece then shifts to American notes on whiskey’s ruin, bashfulness in youth, Iowa farmers clubs, and a Wyoming election anecdote.
A. Winnens, former adjutant general to Gen. John H. Morgan, recounts his version of Morgan’s death on September 4 1864 at Greenville Virginia. He details troop dispositions, the doomed escape attempt, and the fatal shooting near the garden fence. He questions Gen. Gillem's handling of the corpse and asserts loyalty to the Southern cause.
In Pittsfield Massachusetts an old anvil rests as a historic heirloom dating back to 1633 linked to Elfweed Pomeroy and Tudor era trade. The article recounts ancient forges and anvils in London Pompeii and Egypt, then shifts to grape terminology from horticultural societies and a humorous note praising tobacco despite cautions.
Russell Wilder and his cousin Jennie Carleton arrive at Locust Hill to discover they are staying with the Hunts. Jennie and Russell, unaware, meet and soon strike up a connection. Family misgivings fade as an accidental meeting becomes a potential match.
A playful poem follows Johnny and his black haired dog as they wander to school and home. The dog causes mischief, even soaring with a cow and never returning, leaving Johnny to trudging home in sorrow with a torn tale ending in a childlike bedtime plea.
A jumble of quips and misquoted lines questions about partnerships, a one legged sailor and a wooden leg maker, gender change humor, weapon handling, a music teacher who broke an engagement, temperance talk and a hen tying trick, all presented as stray notes from a page.
A long exhortation links drinking to social harm, urging personal restraint and noting impacts on health, crime, and education. It cites medical authorities and temperance views, warning that alcohol use burdens jails, lunatic asylums, and economies, and harms families and workers alike.
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