Bill Arps Letter on Marriage and Maternal Instincts
A long voice praises marriage, motherhood, and women’s education. It contrasts past fashions with modern dress, extols the maternal instinct, and argues for greater state support for women’s higher education, noting Georgias teachers are mostly women. It laments neglect of women’s colleges and calls for legislative action to empower women’s rights.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ubo
David Harum
John Wealey
Earth
Grappa
Dolly
Hogu
Thor
Couras
Milton
Asher
Emerson
Wlover
Dr. Gaines
Agnes Scott Institute
Georgia
bin Agr
An Incident of the Battle of Atlante
Jo a Hinn of Hardee's Corps Breckinridge's Division describes a dangerous reconnaissance during the Atlante campaign. He recounts moving through fixed outposts, dodging fire and enemy guns, and delivering a report on the frontline positions. The piece highlights the close proximity of the armies and the fragile line separating life and death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlante Journal
Ppace
Coms
Mother's Favorite Chamberlain Cough Remedy Ad
The notice promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as safe for children and effective for coughs colds croup and whooping cough. It claims no opium or harmful drugs and easy dosing for all ages. Also advertises Chamberlain Stomach and Liver Tablets and Gravon Tasteless Cholera drops. A curious line references an 112 year old man and a malaria remedy claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Ohio
Itio
Broila
Remedy for Mosquitoes From South America Planting Castor Oil Plant
Consul Plumacher reports a simple inexpensive remedy against mosquitoes used in South America. Planting castor oil plant around homes allegedly repels mosquitoes, with seeds and branches kept in rooms to drive them away. The plant varieties differ by nut color and kernel taste, and castor oil is preferred to coal oil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Amercans
Consul Plumacher
State Department
Maracaibo
South America
The Irishman's Bluff in Civil War anecdote
A lone Irish gentleman on horseback seeks news of rebels near Augusta and Savannah Georgia. An old Irish couple misinterpret his blue uniform as a Federal advance and exaggerate rebel numbers claiming twenty thousand marched by. The response confirms the exaggeration and the tale ends with a boastful pipe remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lewis’ Kentucky
Augusta
Savannah
Sherman
Courage as a common virtue in sharp contrast to hero worship
A discussion of courage from Richard Harding Davis in Everybody's Magazine notes courage as ubiquitous and faulted by ordinary conduct. The piece contrasts soldier grit with moral flaws, and adds curious anecdotes about horse shoes, wasp nests, and barn fires, ending with a proverb on steadfast character.
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Richard Harding Davia
Everybody's Magazine
California
Sunbonnet on the Nail and a Wife’s Bold Wager
An elderly Massachusetts couple’s tale of love and pride unfolds from local elders. A sunbonnet on a nail becomes a symbol as a wife threatens to hang her first husband’s hat if the bridegroom keeps the bonnet. The couple’s long life ends with the house passing to new owners. Also notes on health remedies and household curiosities from Evans Pharmacy and period ads.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashe
Hauling Children to School by Neighbor In GA County
In Comuimus Georgia on January 19, county authorities tested a limited scale recount suggestion by the state school commissioner Dr Glenn to haul children in isolated areas to a central school. A family with 12 to 15 pupils agreed, via a local contractor, to transport pupils to Double Churches five miles away with his 15 year old son acting as driver, earning a new wage and gaining schooling in the process.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comuimus
Mussogee County
Glenn
Water Beautiful Water By John B Gough
Poem extols water in diverse vivid images from mountain streams to oceans and rain to moonlight. The author, John B Gough, frames water as sweet, beautiful, life giving through nature and celestial imagery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ocean
Heaven
Promine
Earth
John B, Gough
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve promoted amid garbled ad copy
An old advertisement extols De Witt's Witch Hazel Salve as a soothing antiseptic for piles and skin disease, warns against counterfeits, and repeats unclear memoranda about pharmacies and miscellaneous phrases, including a blunt quote about arguing with women and a bizarre line about a clairvoyant head.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
Nowars
Seinee Rovergs
de Witt
Clsima Ha Cin
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Bill
Arp
Atlanta
Coxatitution
Battle of
Atlante
Joan H. Hinn
Hardee
Breckinridge
C. 5S. A
Bonnet
Massachusetts
Evans Pharmacy
Orvogicts
Price
Aoe
Cahiy Cate
Camanda
A. J. Gultanit
Decors
Indah
Len G. Holukman
Aden'r
SET
D. 8
Vandiver, E. P. Vandiver
Vandiver Bros
Syracuse
Clark
Empire
Brock Bros, Anderson
Wwe
Osborne & Osborne
Henry
D. Anderson
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