Greetings to Georgia DAR Regent Extended by State
Sophie Lee Foster state regent outlines DAR aims including patriotism, veneration, education, conservation and celebration. Encourages marking historic spots, collecting family pedigrees, essays in schools, and press reporting. Urges locating revolutionary graves and paying the debt for the Continental Hall with a penny-a-day plan.
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Georgia
D.aur
DAR
Wisney
I. A R
Washington
Sophie Lee Foster
Real Daughters Memorial Fund Moves at National Congress
The National Committee on Real Daughters reported efforts to raise a memorial fund through small chapter offerings across states. Details include state-by-state gifts, a proposed uniform grave marker design in bronze bearing the Real Daughter insignia, and a tally of real daughters since inception with state counts and pensioner numbers.
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Georgia
Ourineagen
Atlanta, Constitution
Exou
American Monthly
National Society
National Committee On Real Daughters
W. le Pee
National Congres
Daughters of the American Revolution
Matthew T. Scott
Alabama
Arizona
Connecticut
Florida
Missouri
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
North Carolina
New York
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
Kentucky
West Virginia
Gibert Montagne Stark
Saginaw
Mich
Irving
California
Tinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Maine
Nebraska
New_ Hampshire
South Carolina
Utah
Ene
Wisconsin
Oglethorpe Chapter Elects Officers At Meeting
The Oglethorpe chapter elected officers by virtue of their offices. A literary program followed with Phillipa as hostess and a social feature that guests enjoyed.
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Phillipa
Joshee
Sareisod
Remembering John B. Gordon The Raccoon Roughs tale
In Augusta May program notes Gordon’s life from birth in Upson County Georgia February 6 1832 to his Civil War leadership as captain of the Raccoon Roughs later joining the Sixth Alabama and rising to major general. It recalls his senatorial terms 1872-80 1891-97 governorship 1886-90 and his Civil War battles Sharpsburg Spotsylvania and Petersburg with poems and tributes to his memory.
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John B. Gordon
Gordon
General Gordon
Georgia
South Corona
Upson County
Praclaw
J. Bleckly
Panny
Hugh A. Maralgon
LaGrange
Tenness Georgia
Alabama
Tennessee
Wis Auiget
Mountain Rifles
Raccoon Roughs
Dsovernor Moore
Vginia
Lee
Sharpsburg
Spottsylvania
Petersburg
United States Senate
North
South
Bisgayne
Fla
Solon Borglum
Capitol Square
Atlanta
Wade Hampton
State Capitol
Reunion at Macon Preserved Confederate Spirit
The Macon reunion brought notable happiness to Confederate veterans despite Shelby’s flood impact on attendance. The Georgia division of the United Daughters of the Confederacy hosted a brilliant reception, with state and local leaders aiding in a joyous, hour long event.
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Macon
Nathaniel Macon
Mary Hammond Ashington
Jefferson Davis
Beauvoir
Mississippi Valley
Georgia
United Daughters of the Confederacy
Helen Plane
Drury Cn Ee
Eneral C
Duncan Brown
Zebulon Wallke
Carteraville
J. A. M. Wortham
Ray Kepuaky
Tench
Fioras
E. Dorg
Blount Lanidr
Georgia Division
Books sent directly to Rabun Gap for library
A letter from Prof. A J Ritchie of Rabun Gap endorses placing the Emily Hendree Park Memorial Library there. He offers to build a case and have a school girl catalogue the books at no cost to the school or the Daughters of the Confederacy, and urges chapters to send contributions promptly for shipment and custody.
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Mrs. Taylor
Emily Hendree Park Memorial Library Committee
A. J. Ritchie
Rabun Gap
Carpenter
Daughters of the Confederacy
Ritchie
Emily “Hendree Park Memorial
Georgia Daughters plan scholarships for Vassar and other schools
Mrs. W. Trox Bankston chair of Education, U D C Georgia Division, requests all applicants notify which exam center they will use for Vassar in June. Centers listed at Atlanta, Arnu newick, Macon, Savannah with supervising staff. Deadline and exam specifics provided to ensure proper processing and avoid multiple letters.
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Georgia
Tlanta
Peachtree Street
Volster. College
Poughkeepale
Fate Knocks at the Door and Other Reviews
Will Levington Comfort’s Fate Knocks at the Door is reviewed amid his career from Routledge Rides Alone to The opening scenes are in the Orient then move to the West Indies and New York with the hero Andrew Bedient. Other works praised include The Chinese Revolution by Arthur Judson Brown and Who's Who in America 1912-13.
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Will Levington Comfort
Routledge
Mr. Comfort
Orient
West Indies
New York
Andrew Bedient
Beethoven
Arthur Judson Brown
Dr. Brown
China
Pring
Border Watch
Greal
Kentucky
Detroit
Henry Ware
George Rogers Clark
Indian League
Braxton Wratt
Timmendiquas
Joseph A. Altsheler
Publishers, D. Appleton & Co
Danderine Promises Hair Growth and Health Benefits
Advertising claim for Danderine hair product asserts long heavy luxuriant growth, scalp relief, and reduced dandruff. It promises immediate scalp benefit and gradual new hair growth with a regimen, urging purchase of a 25 cent bottle and indicating root stimulation and velvety softness.
Cure for child skin sores sparks Cuticura praise
A Baltimore mother recounts her six year old daughter's stubborn skin outbreak. After four years of itching and sleepless nights, she used Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment with rapid relief and eventual total cure. The testimonial highlights purity, fragrance, and affordability, noting worldwide availability and free samples.
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Huntingdon Ave
Baltimore
Meng
Maggie M. Eckard
Cuticura
Dept. T
Boston
1912 nature and poetry books in brief catalog notes
Short catalog notes list several 1912 titles with authors and publishers. Lemberger and various nature and outdoor books appear alongside poetry volumes by Winfield Lionel Scott and others. Priced items include one dollar and seventy cents, with publishers in Philadelphia Boston Chicago and New York.
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Lemberger
William L. Bailey
John
Winston Company
Philadelphia
Winfield Lionel Scott
Clarence Meily
Charles H. Kerr & Co
Chicago
George Lansing Raymond
G. PB. Putman's Sons
New York
Chartville
Arnold Bennett on New York and Chicago
Arnold Bennett compares New York and Chicago in Harper's Magazine May. He notes Chicago’s smoky atmosphere and distinctive skyline, calling the city self conscious and intriguing while observing urban soul and municipal anxieties. He contrasts street sameness with Chicago’s visual smoky mystique and calls Broadway sky signs a poetic suburban.
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Arnold Bennett
New York
Chicago
Harper's Magazine
United States
Broadway
Michigan Avenue
Europe
Smooth as a Rose Leaf Perfume Ad Fragment
Ad fragment promotes a talcum product claiming purity and fragrance. Mentions a boxed item made by a company named Talcum Paff Co with emphasis on freshness and absence of grit. Lacks clear dates or geographic details.
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Talcum Paff Co
al Bi
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