Thursday, April 16, 2020

The Can’t Get Away Club in Mobile, Alabama – You’ll never guess its purpose...

 
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The Can't Get Away Club in Mobile, Alabama – You'll never guess its purpose

  (Alabamians have always helped each other in times of crisis – this is one example) The Can’t Get Away Club A local relief society organized at Mobile in 1839, during a yellow fever epidemic called The Can’t Get Away Club. The club took for its model the Red Cross of Geneva. It was chartered by the […]

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PATRON + The Trial of the Judges and other early impeachments in Alabama

Early Alabama Impeachments The first impeachment case in the State was the famous attempt in 1829 to depose three justices of the Supreme Court. This case is popularly known as “The Trial of the Judges.” It was not an impeachment in the strict sense of the term, as it was not instituted as required by […]

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PATRON – Marriage and Death Notices in the April – June 1878 of the Shelby Guide

  Marriage & Death Notices in the April- June 1878 Shelby Guide This was published in THE CAHAWBA JOURNAL Fall 1985 It has been copied as it was written in THE CAHAWBA JOURNAL (*Note- These news articles are copied just as they were written in 1878 – Some of the words used may not be […]

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PATRON + GOOD OLE DAYS – Is this really the way it was for a housewife in Alabama in 1870?

  A BUSY DAY’S WORK (Transcribed from The Times-Argus, Selma, Alabama January 27, 1870 – Originally published in the American Agriculturist) In many families it is not convenient to hire help, and therefore it is necessary for the wife to arrange her work wisely in order to have her afternoons for sewing or calls. In […]

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