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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 22, 1868
Page
3
Local notices praise community figures and merchants while advertising goods and services. The text catalogues calls for a public meeting, a forthcoming demonstration, and various business promotions centered on druggists bakers and medical products. It references institutions in St. Louis and political context, with a blend of lively, period tone.
A lengthy article reviews British prospects for cotton supply, arguing England should invest capital to boost production abroad. It notes turmoil from war and rising demand, cites India as a key potential supplier, and urges rail and irrigation expansion to secure cotton for manufacturers.
A Washington dated letter from 1868 argues public expenditures have risen by over forty six million dollars since April 1865 and the interest as currency will grow. It calls for drastic policy shift including abolishing Freedmen's Bureau and reducing the army to avert national bankruptcy.
The proclamation urges November twenty sixth as Thanksgiving, praising agricultural abundance, unity, and public devotion. It notes improved harvests, fuller highways, friendly foreign relations, and calls for nationwide prayer and gratitude under divine Providence. The text also contains a later garbled, hostile aside about a piano-playing child in Baltimore and claims of a gifted blind white pianist.
A parcel of pork and freight exploded on a freight train east near Kingston four and a half miles from Urbana. The blast wrecked the train as a twenty foot embankment failed beneath it, ignited a fire, and scattered timber and pork across miles while the locomotive survived. Witnesses describe weighty debris and distant shock felt across several towns.
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