Atlanta Seeks Regional Bank Ties To Cotton Wealth
The piece argues Atlanta as the logical site for a federal regional bank due to cotton’s central role in the South’s economy. It notes bankers nationwide favor Atlanta, stressing regional benefits for Atlanta and southern cotton centers during the cotton season and broader money flows.
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Georgia
South
Atlanta
Florida
South Carolina
Alabama
North Carolina
Tennessee
National Banka
Wesley Memorial hospital drive in Atlanta gains Candler match
A Georgia campaign to enlarge Wesley Memorial hospital in Atlanta is led by the women's auxiliary. Asa G. Candler pledges to match three dollars for every one raised up to 75000 dollars, making the target 100000 dollars with early contributions already surpassing 3000 dollars. The drive continues through November with broad-state support.
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Greater Wesley Hospital
Georgia
Wesley Memorial Hospital
Atlanta
Asa G. Candler
Friends of the Hospital
Woman’s Auxiliary
Wesley Memorial Hospital Ushers Georgia Benefit Appeal
The Wesley Memorial operates under denominational auspices but remains nondenominational in its activities. It welcomes patients from all religious backgrounds and has treated cases across Georgia and the southern states. The hospital emphasizes charity work, nurse training, and a broad state-wide appeal, promising broad dividends from investments by Atlanta and Georgia to expand services and aid patients unable to pay.
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Wesley Memorial
Georgia
South
All Georgia
Atlanta
The Unwise Sparrow and a Chilly Spring Sermon
A fragmentary verse scene features Brother Williams debating debt and hell with a wary congregation. The sparrow dialogue and weather imagery drift through the text as old dialect and moral warning mingle in a rustic, rhythmic exchange.
Disturbing Dialect and Dance Norse in a Rural Meeting
A scrambled fragment captures a rural meeting with a church sermon that targets strangers, a dance scene about trouble town and jig tunes, and a preacher’s blunt warning. It includes remarks about fooling the old man and a poetical call to endure hard times and seek daily bread.
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Trouble
Bert Walker
Besida
Fiddler Henry Fields Wins Washington Pa Fiddling Match
Real old time fiddler Henry Fields aged ninety six won first honors at a fiddling match during his birthday party in Washington Pennsylvania. Six octogenarians competed as he returned to the violin after a thirty year lapse.
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Henry Fields
Washington
A Story of the Moment On Farming Farce by WASP MASON
A satirical tale follows a barber turned aspiring farmer who buys ill suited auction horses and secondhand gear. The narrator parodies town farmers who fail in the country, recounting misadventures with broken wheels, faulty gear, and a mock warning to seek real horses and new implements.
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Singer
Michigan
Lundy's Lane
Saskatoon
Favorite Recipes of Distinguished Women
Ms R M Macurinnan presents a wartime era home cook’s note on dust dumplings. The recipe uses suet dough with flour salt baking powder and sea water, filled with apple or cherry fruit and sugar. The dumplings are boiled for two hours in a cloth tied bundle, served hot with cream sugar or maple sauce.
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MHS
Russell M. Macurnnan
Society For the Protection of the Dignity and Honor of the Uniform
United States
Democracy Defined by George Matthew Adams
A compact essay arguing that democracy is a feeling shared by hearts in tune rather than a formal government or set of laws. It links democracy to consideration for others, universal appeal, and active personal responsibility in daily life and voting.
Great trials of Caroline of Brunswick in Britain
The article recounts the life of Caroline of Brunswick, wife of George IV, detailing her marriage, separations, and controversial conduct. It covers rumors of an illegitimate child, inquiries by a royal commission, and the eventual estrangement that led to her brief bid for a countermove before her death in 1821 at age fifty three.
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England
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Carayline
Brunswick
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George IV
George
Prince of Wales
Charlotte
Kengington
Blackheath
John Douglas
Marines
Douglases
Sidney Smith
Mamby
Lawrance
Samuel Romilly
Lady Douglas
Douglas
Captain Manby
Thia
King George TV
Lile
House of Lords
Revival of the Minuet Promised in London Chronicle
The London Chronicle notes a revival of the stately minuet with caution. It cites Austen Leigh’s view on eighteenth century dance, the ritual of wearing lapnets, and the need for immaculate gloves. A separate humorous fragment from The St Louis Mirror recalls a ticket booth prank about counting boys.
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The
London Chronicle
Austen Leigh
St.Louis
New Hampshire
A Heart Shaped Valentine Party Guide with Tips
A playful guide details heart themed invitations heart shaped or red ink notes, paper hearts and poetry quotations as party tokens. It suggests heart box prizes and light refreshments with pink frosting cakes orangeade and a cupid punch recipe, plus simple hot chicken sandwiches and heart shaped custard pies.
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Marty
Valun
Paas
The Strand Br George Pitch Author of At Good Old Stwanah
A compact portrait of London's Strand as it morphs through names from Cannon Street to Fleet Street and beyond. The piece notes its 18 hour bustle of buses and taxis, housing major legal and theater landmarks, and hints at its centuries of history from knights to modern traffic.
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the Strand
George Pitch
Good Old Stwanah
Strand
London
Cannon Street
St. Paul's Cathedral
Ludwate Fill
Ludwate Circus
Fleet Street
Picadily
Kensington Road
Stow
Law County
Gaiety Theater
A vacant Strand lot foreshadows an American building boom
The passage compares the Strand unfavorably to Fifth Avenue noting its lack of skyscrapers and bathes in irony as an enormous empty lot covered with sign boards draws American homesick gaze. It predicts a future five and ten cent store will spark a Strand building boom despite current hesitance.
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Strand
Fifth Avenue
Podunk
No Patron of the Shoe Trust in Chelsea Barefoot Man
A Chelsea man has walked barefoot for three winters, saying he enjoys it and feels no discomfort. Reportedly his feet remain warm even after strolling in zero weather.
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The
Shoe Trust
Chelsea
Mass
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