MACON “VARIETY WORKS”1 We copy from the Auburn Gazette the following description of Maj. Howard’s “Variety Works”, in Macon county, of which we have previously spoken.~All such enterprises for the development of the home resources of the State, deserve high commendation: Permit me, through your valuable paper, to bring to notice of your readers and […]
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS The first relief Act by the State of Alabama in aid of former Confederate soldiers who were maimed during the War Between the States By CLYDE E. WILSON1 Immediately after the close of the war to which reference is made above, some idea of financial aid to the soldiers was in the minds […]
The following warning and advisory lines are on the tombstone of a quack doctor: I was a quack and there are men who say That in my time I physick’d lives away; And that at length I by myself was slain By my own drugs ta’en to relieve my pain. The truth is, being troubled […]
PERSONAL REMINISCENCES OF FATHER RYAN1 By Kate Coles Donegan (Taken from an undated collection of papers and essays in the collections of Virginia Clay Clopton Chapter U.D.C., Huntsville, Alabama. Mrs. Donegan at the time was historian of the Chapter.i) It was my good fortune to know Father Ryan personally, as he was a frequent visitor […]
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