Farewell Message of Governor Brown to Georgia Legislature
Governor Brown urges tax reform and fiscal restraint in a long address to the 10th Georgia General Assembly. He calls for changes to registration laws, highway building with convict labor, double tracking railroads, a state auditor, farm credit, sales tax on inheritances, beer tax reform, bank examiner staffing, and updated vital statistics and medical inspections. He also touches on education funding, public health, and measures to curb crime and improve state governance. The message frames broader economic reforms and governance improvements for Georgia.
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Atlanta
General Assembly
Commonwealth
Railroad Commission
Georgia
Commissioner of Agriculture
State of
Prison Commission
Agricultural and Mechanical Schools
School of Technology
Georgia Normal School
Georgia Normal and Industrial School
France
Joseph M. Brown
Cork trees grown in California experiment by supervisor Charlton
Supervisor Charlton of Angeles national forest has started a large scale cork tree experiment to see if Spanish cork can be grown in southern California. He has just reset 1,000 cork trees about two feet high behind San Bernardino and thousands of cork trees at the same height have been planted in the region.
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Charlton
Angeles National Forest
Spain
California
San Bernardino
Cal
Ailing Women of Middle Age Praise Vegetable Compound
A Fleetwood Pennsylvania reader describes relief from menopause symptoms after using E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The letter claims improved health, absence of doctor visits for years, and recommends publication. The notice extols the product as invigorating and strengthening the female system during the climacteric stage.
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Fleetwood
E. Pinkham
Edward B. En Bert
Lysie E. Pinkham
Empty Tomb at St Helena Described as Neglected
In France a complaint laments that Longwood House and the Valley of Geraniums, sent by Queen Victoria to Napoleon III, are decaying as the Napoleon memorials. The building is ruinous, valley sheep graze nearby, and few visitors return, prompting a view that preservation is unlikely amid inevitable decline.
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France
Republic
Napoleon
St. Helena
Church of St. Louis
Eq Yalides
Longwood House
Geraniums
Queen Victoria
Napoleon III
Alexander
Caesar
Tuileries
Longwood
Scalp disease cured by Cuticura after a year’s struggle
Mrs D W McClellan of Muskogee Oklahoma details a year long scalp ailment with white scales and hair loss. After four weeks using Cuticura Soap and Ointment her scalp healed and hair thickened. Also included are notices about mail boxes on street cars in Des Moines Burlington and Grand Rapids and a general ad style closing line about work and success.
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Muskogee
Okla
D. W. McClellan
Cuticura
Dept. L. Boston
Des Moines
Burlington
Grand Rapids
Mich
Ostracism and recall in ancient Greece
The Christian Herald notes that in ancient Greek republics a powerful figure could be banished by a vote of ostracism. Citizens inscribed names on oyster shells and the senate if the vote was broad enough issued a retirement abroad to protect the state. It was a primitive recall mechanism applicable to both insiders and outsiders.
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Christian Herald
Senate
Nettle Porridge and Early Spring Greens
A London Chronicle note praises nettle porridge as very good after mentions of Evelyn and Pepys. It signals spring uses of nettles and wild hop shoots in Kent, eaten as a delicacy beyond town diets. It warns that stealing cultivated hops is a felony.
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Pepys
Evelyn
Kent
London Chronicle
Height of Americans and Racial Comparisons
Measurements of hundreds of thousands of native born Americans show the average height around 6 feet 7 inches. The study compares this mean with other races, noting the Scotch as taller, while Swede, north German, Welsh, Greek, Turk, Italian, Russian, Swiss, Pole, Russian Jew, Spaniard, and Hun are progressively shorter by up to five inches or more.
Hermits valued in history and modern Italy stats
The article traces hermits from English country houses to modern Italy where 990 are recorded. It cites Samuel Rogers about Archibald Hamilton seeking a beard shaved hermit, Mark Powyss offering 250 dollars yearly for seven years, and a hermit who stayed four years before quitting. Other items include humor panels about sales, gifts, proof, and a remark on Chinese adopting European shirts.
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Italy
Samuel Rogers
Archibald Hamilton
Duke of Hamilton
Mark Powyss
New Phenomenon Lone Magnetic Rotation Reported
Professor Righi reports a phenomenon named lone magnetic rotation. A large condenser spark through gas with a cross of mica vanes suspended mid discharge fails to rotate the cross unless a vertical magnetic field exists. In air the cross rotates markedly, in other gases less, due to ion path bending and mutual vane protection. Positive ion effects appear generally stronger than negative.
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Professor Righi
Righi
No. SIX-SIXTY-SIX Malaria cure tale in old ad voice
A fragmentary historical item presents an old patent cure advertisement for malaria or chills and fever as a 25 cent tonic. It then shifts to a Mattapan organ grinder scene with a horse and a pun about a wife seeking help and a gardener named Briggins who supposedly knows plants but supposedly raises nothing.
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Tony
Mattapan
Briggins
Elixir Babek touted as malaria tonic in parish use
Rev Szymanowski of St Stephen's Church Perth Amboy endorses Elixir Babek as a magical remedy that drives malaria from the system. The elixir costs 50 cents and is sold by Kloczewski & Co and through parcels post. A separate ad notes Tyree's Antiseptic Powder for skin ailments and a cartoon joke about a drink called a ball.
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Szymanowski
St. Stephen's Church
Perth Amboy
N. J
Kloczewski & Co
Washington, D.C
Capucine and Groves Tonic Promoted for Summer Ailments
An old advertisement bundle touts Hicks capucine as a best remedy for heat and draft caused headaches. It markets Groves Tasteless Tonic for blood enrichment and summer resilience, Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething, and Dr Porter’s Antiseptic Healing Oil for wounds and skin conditions, with prices and multi-use claims across livestock and canine care.
Bismarck’s Paris Visit Noted In Memoir Anecdote
The 1862 Paris ascent of Otto von Bismarck as Prussian ambassador is recounted in Intimate Memories of Napoleon II. Baron d'Ambes notes the witty exchange with Napoleon I I, highlighting the sharp retorts between the two rulers and the emperor’s noticeable German-accented French.
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Bismarck
Napoleon II
Baron d'Ambes
Paris
On the Lawns They Say She's Neat Neat
A brief note describes a person praised as neat with cuspidora placed about the grounds, reflecting a casual item from the page. The fragment mentions admiration and a decorative or garden-related reference. No further context is provided to identify names, dates, or locations.
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Governor Brown
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eGorgia
Lawmakers
Macon
Byron
Fort Valley
Marshallville
Dublin
D. S. Brandon
Sologieff
Madrid
Mr. Brandon
Douglas
Gillis
Coffee County
Kirkland
Randall Solomon
Andrew Solomon
Jesse Carver
Athens
John Low Young
Canton
China
University of Georgia
New York
Ducktown
United States Supreme Court
Tennessee
Fannin
Tennessee Copper Company
State Board of Education
Book Trust
C. R. McCrory
Schley County
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
South
Northernn Press
Commissioner of Labor
Henry M. Stanley
Eatonton
Griffin
H. C. Hutchens
Mrs. Hilbert
Greece
Puck
Wooster
Biffels
Libby, McNeill & Libby
Chicago
Philadelphia
Penn
Gotham
Tyree
J. S. Tyree
Washington, D. C
Crimsonbeak
Pennsylvania
Porter
Bee Des
Bee Dee Stock & Poultry Medicine
J. Stowe
F Peel
Tutt
Indocetor
Hunt
Ne Druggist
A. B. Richards Medicine CO
Sherman
Texas
Abe Primsown
Haverstock
Daily Fly
DeKalb Ave
Brooklyn
Glenn Phot Photo Stock Co
Ganlu
Bea
Grove
E. W. Grove
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