Rival River reshapes fate of New Orleans Mississippi
A historic study traces the Atchafalaya's rise as a rival waterway to the Mississippi. It details how the Red River overflow fed a new channel, widening and deepening Until the Atchafalaya could carry vast trade, threatening New Orleans’s water supply and economic lifeblood.
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Mistesiyga
Hierery Dior
Red River
Gulf
Fountain Head
Koil
Mississippi
Minnesota
Atchafalaya
Red
United States
New Orleans
Ved
Missisippi
Atchaalaya
Tiport
New
New Orbana
Canal Street
New River
Baton Rouge
New Orelans
Crescent City
South
Letter urging Snodgrass hill site for Union monument
South Carolina veteran recounts Chickamauga fight near Snodgrass hill, praising General J J Whershaw and Col. Bland, urging the location of a planned monument on Snodgrass Hill to honor Confederate and South Carolina troops. He recalls losses, battlefield details, and personal memories from 1863 to 1898.
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Mcsweeney
Ae-Cnib
United Confederane Veterany
Chester
Low
Chicksmauga
Hos
General Assembly
South Carolina
Gist
Manigaule
Korshayn
Snodgrass Hill
Thomas
J. J. Wershaw
James
South Carolina Infantry
Bland
Edgefield County
Townsend
Cokesbury
Snodgrass
Whershaw
Evans
Kershaw
Miei
Nershaw
Chickamauga
J. W. Ashford
Dave Gradney
Somebody Forgetts. The forgotten duty to care for the poor
A parable recalls a litle boy in poverty who asks why God does not provide shoes or coal. The response: God tells us to help the least of His creatures, but sometimes we forget. The piece laments child neglect and urges self-reflection on whether we, too, forget.
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Chrrist
Use Of Peanuts In The Preparation Of Various Dishes
The piece discusses peanuts in cooking with recipes for a peanut wafer dessert and peanut sandwiches using brown bread and cream cheese. It notes peanut butter sold in jars and promoted for nutritive value, with various firms manufacturing it. It also includes advertisements for Botanic Blood Balm and DoWitt a Little Early Risers and other drugstore notices.
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New York: Evening Post
Infants in a Year Would Thread Globe in Cradles
A famed statistician contemplates infant numbers by year, imagining a line of yearold babies in cradles circling the globe. A reviewer also pictures babies carried by mothers, marching past a fixed point day and night for 12 months.
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Sle
A Novel in a Nutshell and a Diary of Love
A fragmentary narrative chronicles repeated meetings with a man, shifting from love to doubt, then back as vanity and beauty influence perceptions. The speaker notes a difficult relationship with a mother’s mixed judgments, engagement, and marriage, ending with a remark on luxury becoming a necessity.
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Hattie Menment
Thas Len
Joseph Urevard Kershaw
B.B.B. Blood Balm Co
Mitchell Street
Atlanta
Hill-Orr Drug Co
Wilhite & Wilhite
Edith
Ethel
Momma
Philadelphia Times
Ead Cree Health
the Bank OF Anderson
J. A. Brock
N. Brown
F. Mauldin
Perser
Paul E. Stephens
Presbyterian College
ECOND
Spencer
Castoria
What Is
OLD Hickory
Tennessee
Columbia Buggies
Coma
Jos
J. Fretwell
John A. Hayes
Hynds
Gainesville
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