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The Cumberland Rag single work   poetry   satire   "Wanted forthwith, to write libellous rhymes"
Issue Details: First known date: 1845... 1845 The Cumberland Rag
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The writer, in satirical mode, offers a negative opinion on the quality of the newly published Cumberland Times, and Western Advertiser.

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    • Editor's note at head of poem: The following appears in the Herald of yesterday as an advertisement.
    • Editor's note at foot of poem: If the party who so kindly inserted the above [poem], will call at our office, our publisher has instructions to reimburse him the expense he has been put to in our behalf, together with our grateful thanks.

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— Appears in: Cumberland Times, and Western Advertiser , 18 October vol. 2 no. 95 1845; (p. 2) The editor of the Cumberland Times, and Western Advertiser notes, with gratitude, the increased sales of the newspaper since an advertisement decrying the paper was placed in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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