This letter is from Gaston (and Magdelaine) Bert to John Brinkley’s wife, Minnie Telitha Jones Brinkley. In the letter, Bert tells Brinkley that he will be visiting from his home country of Italy alone because his wife is sick,...
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Language and languages--Study and teaching and Tutors and tutoring
In this document, NC Governor Thomas Bragg is responding to a letter from Jacob Siler about a debt owed by Mr. Stephen Munday. Bragg approves of Siler’s motion to take it to court but suggests that Siler get an assignment of...
This transcription is from a letter written from Henry M. Misemer (signed as H. M. Misemer) to his wife, Martha J. Misemer, dated March 20th, 1864, and sent from Nashville, Tennessee. This transcription and its attendant...
This transcription is from a letter written from Henry M. Misemer (signed as H. M. Misemer) to his wife, Martha J. Misemer, dated March 21st, 1864, and sent from Nashville, Tennessee. This transcription and its attendant...
When Hannah Hall wrote this letter, prohibition was still officially in effect; the 18th amendment would not be repealed until December 1933. However, on March 20th, Congress passed the Cullen-Harrison Act, which legalized the...
This document is a letter from Henry Gay (Possibly Enrico “Henry” Gay) to John Brinkley, a famed “quack” doctor from the United States. John Brinkley II practiced medicine throughout the 1920s and 1930s. Most well-known known...
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Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942, Exports, and Textile industry
Horace Kephart published an advertisement in “Shooting and Fishing” and other news outlets (Askins) for sharpshooters who would form a company ready to join the Spanish American War when a second request came for volunteers....
The manuscript is a letter from Jacob Siler to NC Governor Thomas Bragg dated March 16th, 1858. Siler is writing to Governor Bragg to inform him of outstanding debts from a man named Mr. Munday though the amount of the debt is...
John R. Brinkley II, a self-proclaimed doctor, was born July 8, 1885. While he is best known for his practice of xenotransplantation of goat testicles in an attempt to cure issues he claimed were in relation to the prostate or...
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Brinkley, John Richard, 1885-1942 and Radio stations
This letter, dated April 21, 1937, was written by Dr. John R. Brinkley to Amanda Wike Jackson. Dr. Brinkley was both a highly controversial and very successful medical figure in early 20th century, as well as an early adopter...
