Tea as a Global Tale of Taste and Trade
A broad census of tea’s influence from Britain’s shift from coffee to tea after 1776 to American adoption post Boston Tea Party. It traces origins in China and Japan, the Dutch arrival in 1610, spread to Europe by 1650, and modern production in India, Ceylon, and Indonesia. It notes consumption rates in the UK, US, and other regions, and details picking methods and processing at plantations in Sumterville and Ceylon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Britain
Boston
English East India Company
John Company
Stephen Gerard
John Jacob
Amoy
Japan
India
Persia
Russia
Europe
Java
Tee
Sweetings
Royal Exchange
English East India Co
Ceylon
Indonesia
Portable polisher for home use with removable buffers
A portable polisher shines and buffs shoes and furniture and cleans windows. Lambs wool buffers and horsehair brushes detach for washing in warm soap and detergent. Knees after use.
White Cane Is Returned After Restored Sight
William O. Broy 41 returns the white cane that aided his four years of blindness to the Ypsilanti Lions Club. A corneal disease led to retirement from his job as an assistant signal foreman for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. Doctors at the University of Michigan Medical Center replaced his left eye with donor tissue from the Michigan Eye Bank. The operation reportedly restored about 90 percent of his sight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ypsilanti, Mich
William O. Broy
Ypsilanti Lions Club
Broy
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
University of Michigan Medical Center
Bray
Michigan Eye Collection Center
John W. Henderson
Eye Bank
Wart Remedies Pour In To Judge Grayson
Tampa Florida AP reports Criminal Court Judge L A Grayson denied occult powers to banish warts yet received a flood of home remedies. An elementary school teacher asked for help curing her student’s warts and Grayson vowed to study cures rather than judge criminals. He plans to pass the suggestions to the teacher.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tampa
Fla
Criminal ‘Court
L. A. Grayson
Sould
Grayson
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By Carolyn Kinemann
Astor
Thomas H. Perkins
William Cowper
Samuel Pepys
England
Orient
Bodhidharma
Darma
America
London
United Kingdom
Australia
Ireland
French Morocco
Canada
Netherlands
United States
New England
Rocky Mountain
Pacific
Summerville
S. C
Orienta An
Drexel
Slam Fureagtiem
South Main
Superior
Texturon
Glamor Home
Wrenn ST
Mary Carter Paint Store
S. Main St
Susan
W. Broad Street
Washington ST
N. Main St
Mali
Tou UP
Jewelers
Samuel Hyman
AMOND
P.C.S
West High Deck
Inte
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