Touring the Indian Territory and the Mississippi floodplain
SAM JONES recounts a lecture tour from Kentucky through Indiana Missouri and the Indian Territory. He describes Muscogee South McAllister and mixed blood residents Cherokee blood and pride. warns of levee breaks and catastrophic floods along the Mississippi and Red Rivers with widespread land loss and high water threats. He reflects on geography climate and the appeal of Georgia over flood-prone Mississippi delta.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Jownal
Kentuck
Indiana
Missouri
Indian Territory
Texas
Shreveport
Louisiana
Mississippi
Muscogee
South McAllister
Georgia
Reservations
United States
St. Louis
Kansas City
Red River
Mississippi River
Texas and Pacific
Briggs
Vicksburg
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Mississippi Valley Railroad
Memphis
Alabama
South Carolina
Thia
Red Hills
North Carolina
Mississippi Delta
North Georgia
San P. Jones
Our Country a Hundred Years Ago
A compact retrospective notes daily life and social norms in early America. It recalls powdered hair and queues, foot scraping greetings, church fundraising by bell, debt imprisonment, limited hatmaking, Virginia’s population share, stagecoaches, distant Mississippi, unknown quinine, Peruvian bark for ague, lack of public libraries, high book prices, low wages, fines for street gallops, and archaic food and transport practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
Virginia
New York
Boston
Mississippi Valley
Africa
United States
A Memorial Day Remembering by Sarge Plunkett
An Atlanta essayist recalls Memorial Day's meaning thirty-six years after Fort Sumter. He muses on fathers, mothers, and children, venerates veterans of a Georgia regiment, and honors John Nicholls of Spartanburg for risking his life to bring water to a dying Union officer at Spottsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Fort Sumter
Oakland
John
Malvern Hill
Rly
Georgia
Anner
Sarge Vurskerr
New York Sun
Casey
Johnny Reb
Aga Tule
Number Two
Tie
Number One
Gen. Grant
Grant
1St Regiment
South Carolina Volunteers
John M. Nicholls
Spartanburg
Carolina
Piedmont Belt
Nicholls
Boye
Clearin
John Nicholls
Parlor Proverbs and City Notes on Life and Labor
A collage of maxims and anecdotes on manners and work. It cites an Irishman, a Wisconsin girl, and a Maine court remark while weaving in observations about Boston, London, and the U S rail system. Mentions health cures, the Chinese language letter I, and Chamberlains remedy as sold by Hill Orr Drug Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
United States
Trishman
Gals
Wisconsin
London Telegraph Office
N. C. Picayune
Chamberlain
Hill-Orr Drug Co
Supreme Judicial Court of Maine
Bangor
D. P. Davis
Goshen
Also Mentioned on This Page
Rey
Sam Jones
Gelist
B.C. Evans & CO. Clothiers and Furnishers
Ladies’ Store
Lizzie Williams
Anderson
O. C. Brown & Bro
GENTS
Busset
Oxblood
BAIS
the Yates Shoe Co
Masi
H. Poore & CO
Defot Street
FIRST
Archer & Osborne
Colton
Sullivan Hardware CO
TCH
Ks! Watches
Upper Carolina
Will. R. Hubbard
2 Ees Fy Et
Wrest
D. PP. Sloan
Sarge Plunkett
Tion
Cheney
Lyrmer & Tiss x
Toledo
Kinnan & Manvix
Spottsylvania
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