Georgian Rise from Confederation to Statehood Legacy
After the Revolution Georgia and other states seek a stronger union. Leaders Madison Hamilton and Franklin push a new Constitution. Georgia enters as a slave state and later faces Yazoo fraud, Athens Franklin College, and capstone events from Washington to Lafayette, shaping early state and national politics.
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James Madison
Virginia
Alexander Hamilton
New York
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Massachusetts
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Georgia
Morning Hot Water Cure Promoted by Physician Authorship
A health column urges drinking hot water with limestone phosphate before breakfast to cleanse the stomach liver kidneys and bowels and to flush out poisons. It cites a physician and compares skin cleansing to internal detoxification and notes pure blue sky relates to atmospheric color.
Cleaning Hardwood Floors With Gasoline
A historical instruction recommends wiping badly spotted dirty hardwood floors with gasoline. It advises moistening cheesecloth with gasoline and rubbing the surface vigorously, changing the cloth as it becomes soiled.
First Woman Commissioner Appointed by Government
The first woman regularly named as a government commissioner to a world exposition was Madame Octavia Walton LeVert. Georgia born and granddaughter of George Walton, she served as commissioner to the World's Industrial Exposition in Paris in 1855 while living in Mobile. Her reports from Paris, and letters home mentioning Fillmore and Gen. Henry R. Jackson, remain worth reading today.
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George Walton
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Henry R. Jackson
Austria
Primitiveness In Turkish Armenia Described
A village in Turkish Armenia resembles a garden of large ant hills and is nearly buried by snow in winter, illustrating bare, undeveloped rural conditions and harsh seasonal climate.
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