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An Olfactory Follow-Up
On Thursday, I stirred up a big stink in Atlanta from July 1864. That wasn’t the only one: COMPLAINTS.–Some of the inmates of the Gate City Hospital complain that an old building near the hospital is filled with hides, which omit an intolerable … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Medical, Newspapers
Tagged Atlanta, Atlanta Intelligencer, Medical, sanitation
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You Could Feel Atlanta in Your Olfactory
“You can feel it in your olfactory,” as Loudoun Wainwright famously phrased it. …which is the subject of this editorial in the Atlanta Intelligencer of July 2, 1864. Under title of “The City,” the paper’s editors commented on a big rainstorm that suddenly … Continue reading
Posted in Civilian, Medical, Newspapers
Tagged Atlanta, Atlanta Intelligencer, Dead Skunk, Loudoun Wainwright, sanitation, weather
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