California’s First Clearing House Ball in 1864 San Francisco
A Los Angeles Times account recalls the 1864 Russian Ball in San Francisco. Gov and state officers attended with foreign consuls and military officers while a spike in wardrobe mix ups led to a public recovery effort. The piece frames it as California’s inaugural clearing house not in finance but in item returns.
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Bank‘ae
San Francisco
Iusga
California
Army
Cal Ifornia
Bankers’ Clearing House
Los Angeles Times
Women Lie About Age To Ease Marriage Proof
In a discussion cited by the New York Press a marriage license clerk notes that women frequently falsify their ages on certificates to influence engagements. A reader asks about illegitimacy risks, while Australia recently granted a divorce on a lie about age, with a husband believing his wife to be younger.
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Australia
New York Press
The Earliest Money and Barter Mediums
The article traces early money from shells and bark to animal skins and cattle. It notes barter and exchange as primitive systems and explains agricultural surplus influenced the use of farm products as value measures.
Currency Evolution From Tobacco to Metal Money
A fragment notes how tobacco served as currency in colonial Virginia and traces the shift to iron, silver, and gold as the widely accepted money of civilized and semi civilized peoples, with iron becoming obsolete last.
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Virginia
New York American
Thumb Bells and Tiny Ear Bones
The text explains the thumb bell origin of the thimble from English usage with Dutch invention origins and early materials. It notes carved pearl thimbles reaching England by 1695 and lists materials from iron to gold and even glass. It then briefly describes the stapes as the smallest human bone in the ear, its stirrup like shape, pea sized dimensions, and also called the lenticular bone.
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Bina
England
Brave Irishman Rescues Woman From Ferry Crossing
Report from Philadelphia Ledger recalls a daring rescue as a poor Irishman leaped from a ferry to save a woman attempting to cross to Camden. The husband, named as cabman, rewarded the rescuer with a quarter, while bystanders voiced indignation. The rescuer quips that gratitude might have been a dollar if he hadn’t saved her.
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Camden
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