Bargain-Rate Pioneers Funded Early Oceanic Voyages
A Chicago report cites Northwestern University figures from Professor Ruge showing Columbus earned under 4 dollars a day with aides on 320 dollars yearly. Total discovery cost was 1 140 000 maravedi about 15 798 dollars, with Isabella and Paris funding rough sums for ventures that predated Byrd and Amundsen expeditions. Many early attempts failed, highlighting the disparity between then wages and later polar flight costs.
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Juan
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Woman wires husband and takes poison in New Orleans
Mrs. C. E. Davis of Donna Texas sent a telegram to her husband on Wednesday and died two hours later of poison at a New Orleans hotel. Mr. Davis called the hotel to intervene after receiving the telegram and officers found her in the room saying she did not want to talk and was sick and wanting to die.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
C. E. Davis
Donna
Texas
Ponce de Leon and Florida real estate notes
A historical record notes that Ponce de Leon’s discovery of the Spring of Youth in Florida is framed as somewhat forward in time from a business perspective. It records that neither he nor his descendants sold any of the real estate created from that discovery.
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Ponce de Leon
Florida
de Soto
Balboa
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