Pellagra found its mark in the thousands of underpaid mill workers who spun the cotton into yarn and fabric, all the while subsisting on a diet of cheap corn products: cornbread, grits, syrup, brown gravy, fatback, and coffee were the staples. The workers’ meager pay came as credit ...
Shapiro, T Rees
He is usually distinct in her mind as to his physical.qualities, such as dark or light hair, or brown or blue eyes. He is always a certain physical type and often re- mains an ideal to her through life. At the forming period of the type she will be attracted toward many men who ...
My Dear Nelly: The Selected Civil War Letters of General Orlando M. Poe to His Wife EleanorBrown, Russell K.Journal of America's Military Past