Salt, Shoes, and Medicine in Civil War South
The Civil War era details salt shortages and price surges due to Union blockade. Florida and coastal caves became salt works while families boiled sea water on beaches. Diaries from Susan Bradford and Mary Boykin Chesnut recount improvised shoes and home remedies using wild plants and opium from poppies for laudanum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Confederacy
Florida
Susan Bradford
Tallahassee
Mary Boykin Chesnut
Alabama
Armistead
Parthenia Antoinette Hague
Fire safety lessons from 1962 fire losses urge drills
Assistant Fire Chief R H Ellison presents preliminary 1962 fire loss data from the National Fire Protection Assn. showing 11 800 deaths, over half in dwelling fires, with children and women forming large shares. Most deaths occur at night. many victims could have escaped with a preplanned plan or drill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. H. Ellison
National Fire Protection Assn
Brezhnev's Son Reported Living Quietly in Sweden
A private source says Jurg Brezhnev, 30, son of Leonid Brezhnev, has lived in a Stockholm suburb for the last 114 years and is employed at the permanent Soviet Trade Mission. The disclosure surprised a Soviet press attache.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stockholm
Jurg Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
New Additions At C R Library Long‑Play Records
The C R Library expands its growing collection with folk music classics and sound recordings now available for three week loan. New items include Yeats and Hardy poetry anthologies, Shakespeare works, Waiting for Godot, and modern anthropology titles among others. The folk and classical sections feature Woody Guthrie collections, True Religion and Blues, and works by Josh White and Handel among others. The Mouseketeers experiment with sound effects on The Sheriff Steve and Mickey Mouse Show at 5 0 PM Mon TV 9.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Butler Yeats
Walter Goldschmidt
Thomas Hardy
Emlyn ‘Williams
Charles Dick
Leedbelly
Woody Guthrie
Cisco Houston
Sonny Terry
Brownie McGhee
New Lost City Ramblers
Erik Darling
Josh White
Mouseketeers
TV 9
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Merton T. Akers
United Press International
Cedar Rapids
Sun
Europe
West Indies
North
Diary
Susan
Rob
Richard
ISON
Miss Hague
Swedish Foreign Office
Sweden
The
C.R. Library
Ens
Peter Marshall
David L. Jennings
Waiting For Godot
Samuel Beckett
Robert Sanders
Sinfonia
John
Boda
Gilbert Trythall
Hall Overton
Handel
Ernest Bloch
Bartok
Legend
Andrew Imbir
Crystal Sugar
AME
SWEET
Crystal Sweet
Westinghouse
Minneapolis
Minn
American Crystal Sugar Company
Mimm
N. Dek
Iowa
Wis
Nebr
NEW Westinghouse
HCL
Minnesota
Ist Prize
Bo Schaar
Pene Ay Srier
Grecer
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!