27 Oct 1871
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1871
Page
1
Announcement of subscription terms Oss Year costs 360 dollars six months 200 dollars with cash payment in advance. Notices over five lines and all transient or paid notices priced by length. Announcing candidates costs 5 dollars. Advertisers urged to mark repetition and price reductions for yearly commitments. Letters to the proprietor will be promptly attended to.
Planters Warehouse E informs Randolph and adjacent counties that E McDonald has erected a large warehouse on depot Street near the public square. The central location aims to offer more inducements to planters and welcomes many old friends and new customers. Ample arrangements are made for reception and storage of produce.
Thankful for past favors we hope with increased advantages and personal attention to give general satisfaction and merit a liberal tonnage. The latest published Commercial news will at all times be at the service of our friends and patrons. Liberal cash advances made on cotton and goods in store.
E McDonald and Co advertise personal attention to sale of cotton and plantation supplies including bagging salt guano and threshing machines at lower market prices. They boast two new rail road thoroughfares will reduce freights and greatly improve the city market, urging cotton owners to consign to Cuthbert.
CUTHBERT GA. Exercises of this institution will resume Wednesday September 20 and close before the last Sabbath in June. Scholastic year divided into three terms beginning September 7 January 1 and April 1. Regular course per term details, including parandum, board, washing, fuel, lights, and required supplies. Extra course offerings include Greek and French, music, drawing, pastels, oil painting, calisthenics. Payments due October, January and April. Each pupil should be present at opening.
An excerpt from Richmond Enquirer words by Mrs Town send eulogizes a Georgian volunteer of the Twelfth Georgia. The poem recalls a forgotten grave high on a mountain, near a dismantled fort, with Stonewall Jackson’s men highlighted as the sleeper. The piece laments nameless soldiers lost to war and memory.
A meditation on loneliness and inner conflict as the night mood reveals grief and memory. The narrator contrasts despair with a cautious gratitude, noting personal unworthiness against a background of beauty and potential virtue. A brief quip about a printer and a wife who would make a fine devil ends the excerpt.
Hlenscue V. Johnson outlines the 1871 Agricultural Congress agenda with aims to unite state and local associations, consolidate with Nashville measures, and secure broad support. Delegates from eleven states and DC seek equal participation, travel concessions, and robust local funding to launch a permanent national agricultural instrument.
A St Louis mother and her child mistaken a man for the father in a park scene. The man turns out to be the mother’s brother, sparing a fatal panic. A second tale notes slow progress in invention through steady steps. An Irish observer misreads decorative sashes as loose gallashes. A numeric gag claims a pound of turnip seed equals 301 1288 seeds. A doctor declines the Lancers but offers to dance.
The passage lists major conflagrations from 1666 London to 1865 Portland and Charleston, detailing property losses, casualties, and affected populations. It notes Chicago’s 1871-like scale as the largest since 1666, cites a Monument inscription removal, and ends with a moral remark on marriage rites.
A young printer named Gumbs started the Cambria Milky Way in Cambria county. The issue attacked local officials and residents with harsh insults and threats, including a scare about defenses around the paper. The Milky Way failed after one issue as Gumbs left for Kansas.
A collection of maxims and aphorisms on self reform, secrecy, learning through experience, leisure, and humanity. It presents pithy reflections from various voices on character, humility, and social duty, urging temperance, practical knowledge, and shared welfare.
A Baltimore Sun summary notes widespread crises including famine in Persia, floods in Hungary, epidemics in Russia, and global tensions. It cites damaging administration failures in Hungary, cholera in Russia, wars in Europe, unrest in Spain Italy and Rome, and a peaceful but tense England amid election campaigns and taxes. The piece reflects on monarchic and religious upheavals, with Turkey and Egypt maneuvering for power as conflicts loom.
A maiden hides and taunts a suitor with a robin motif then invites him in. They sing together as fate seals their bond. The robin's dawn song marks a change, and the lovers share a kiss that binds them despite her earlier warnings.
A whimsical collection of witticisms and proverbs on love, honesty, friendship, and social manners. It lampoons fashionable vanity, notes the sting of truth in language, and ends with a cheeky quip about a Connecticut rail disaster affecting a young man’s nerves and his engagement.
A quirky house rules list lampoons boarding house life with jests about pay terms, boots on meals by colored cooks, bed bugs, six month visits, dreams and nightmares, and humorous asides on London birth rates and fashion squirts. The fragment hints at a satirical notices tone.
A short rural anecdote tells of two farmers dining when a guest jokes about a fifth calf. The visitor notes the cow has five calves and the fifth calf acts like a fool beside the others. The host, amused, asks for another plate as the exchange ends.
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