A young man from Carrollton, GA, comes to the big city hoping to pursue a career in medicine. He walks the streets of Atlanta, knocking on the door of every drug store in town. As the sun is setting, he is hired on the spot by one of the best-known druggists in Georgia and his […]
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The birth of a legend
There has been much conversation of late about “fake news” and it seemed like a good time to revisit a story we did about a very “real” news event that happened in Atlanta in 1883.
