Southern dialect charm shapes Miss Clara Wimberly career
Miss Clara Wimberly, a Georgia woman from Inglehurst Twiggs county, builds a reputation interpreting negro dialect on stage and in society. Her roots, family lore, and a Virginia lineage anchor a life of music, storytelling, and dairy work on a plantation with deep ties to old enslaved families and the antebellum era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cafe Chantante
Roof Garden
Joel Chandler Harris
Thomas Nelson Page
Fuh McEnery
Ruth McEnery Stuart
Denny
Li ‘ Eratura
Nelson Page
Been Mani
Virginia
Clara
Wimberly
Inglehurst
Twiggs Counts
Georgia
Miss Wimberly
Frederick Wimberly
Henry Bunn
W. Berlys
Bunns
Twiggs County
Wimberlys
Jack
Clara Wimberly
New York
New
Sweetheart
Cuagis
Dr. Bunn
Aste
Plantation Fe
R. O. Campbell
Atlanta
Daughters of the Confederacy
Robert E. Lee
Diamonds are the best value in jewelry sales
An advertisement extols diamonds as durable, never devaluing, and always marketable. It urges customers to buy diamonds here to ensure they get what they pay for and not pay more than fair price, emphasizing reliable realization of value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joyner
Christmas on a Plantation in a Darkey Christmas Memory
A plantation Christmas memory describes burning the yule log on Christmas Eve and visitors arriving for eggnog. On Christmas morning every dark face in the house offers a merry greeting and Attic remembrance while the children gather around the tree, showing a social scene of festivity.
Success of Miss Julia Toombs Rankin at Carnegie Library
In a Carnegie Library interview librarian Miss Anne O Wellace notes biographical aids abound for students and praises annotated catalogues. Pratt Billings December issue printed a Latin paleography bibliography by Miss Rankin, head cataloguer of the Carnegie Library. Rankin’s New York trip included Lennox Library access and ongoing correspondence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anne O ‘Wellace
Carnegie Library
Ce Pwoiic
Waellece
Pratt In Billuts Monthly
Julia Rankin
Carnegie Nbra
New York
Miss Wimberly Takes Command At Old Home
Grief tightens over the plantation as the Wimberly family returns. Miss Wimberly, in black gown, directs servants and assumes duties, keeping Inglehurst home intact for a year. Her aunt, sister, and Dr. Warren Wimberly remain central. cousin Mrs. Helen Plane ties to Confederacy lineage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beth
Misa Wimberly
Lfe
Inglehurst
Warren Wimberly Curry
Arandson
Miss Wimberly
Jack
Wimberly
the Daughters of the Confederacy
Atlanta
Helen Plane
Misa ‘Wimberly
The
Edwine Behre
Madame Ruppert Beauty Remedies Promoted in Atlanta Ad
An old advertisement touts Mme Ruppert world renowned remedies including face bleach almond soap and a free booklet How To Be Beautiful. It claims long selling history and fresh supplies from New York factory, with Jacs Jacobs Pharmacy Co Atlanta as sole agent dated 12-10-98.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Ruppert
Indoretory
Madame Ruppert
East Fourteenth Street
New York
Aime Ruppert
Mme
Ruppert
Mayoress of Brownsville Fights Saloons with Petition
Lydia Mayer a prominent Brownsville figure led a drive against saloons to protect church and school, prompting a license commission petition that found the saloon too near sacred sites but yielded no immediate action. The large Hebrew settlement, home to about 25,000, backed her effort.
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Lydia Mayer
Brownsville
L. 7
America
Mayer
Baloong
Pels
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Julia Toombs Rankin
Henry ‘Bunn
Canpentens
Bullaera
Kimberly
Asgum
Mrs
Katherine Bloodgood
Europe
Miss Redskin
Miss Rankin
Young Men‘s Library Association
Owne
Yan
Leonora Jackson
Charles W. Crankshaw
Whitehall, Corn
Inglehurst, Twiggs County, GA
Baker’s
Wales Baker
Dorchester
Mass
Bea
Constitution
Atlanta Gas Light Co
Owman
Whitehall, Street
Little Folks’ Store
Sever
Roy
Mission House
Crescent Mission
Piman Street
Lydia
Kimball
Joseph ‘Thompson
Candler
N. P. Black Lewry
Literatura Eectia Council of Women
Concordia Hall
Wesleyen
Sorosls Society
John M. Moore
James Dickey
Dee Murp
Ruth Hallman
Nellie Eris
Louise Todd
Kat Block
Gail Harwood
Philips
Annie
Bes
Harrison
Mildred Brown
Marr Peu ‘Wright
He Burke
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