29 Sep 1876
Page 1
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Newspaper
Cuthbert Appeal
Location
Cuthbert, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1876
Page
1
A jumble of notices, anecdotes, and satirical sketches details a melodramatic mix of public notices, humorous farm bragging, a drunken confession in court, and reflections on wisdom and bravado. The piece blends farm lore, legal oddities, and moral musings about wealth and genius, with local names, places, and events scattered throughout.
A fragment describes a legend where two brothers share a field of wheat by placing each other’s shocks to help the other, leading to the temple of Solomon built on ground blessed by such acts. It laments modern greed and quotes a mother asking why a boy won’t dare to jump a creek, ending with a proverb about men who seldom do wrong.
A humorous jumble of clipped anecdotes and letters from a neighboring town includes a young woman seeking garters in comic slang, a Toledo Blade note about burglars and a double entendre, a self-deprecating farmer prayer on blessed crops, a bored husband’s prank with a neighbor’s wife in a photograph, and a German priest’s blessing interrupted by barren harvest.
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