Corsica Sours Tourists Praise Vendetta and Strife
The Globe-Democrat describes Corsica as seldom visited and hard to civilize, noting a long vendetta tradition governing justice. It details rugged terrain, sparse cultivation, forests, and a population shaped by many conquerors, with frequent armed feuds and deadly cycles of revenge that haunt families across generations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dor
Eshe
Corsica
Rea
Globe-Democrat
Ware
Rhode Island
Corsina
France
Corsican Society and Napoleon’s Island Legacy
Corsica blends feudal manners with fierce vendetta culture and scarce property crimes. Napoleon’s ties soften with roads, edicts, and reforms under Napoleon III, yet murder and vengeance persist in the island’s social fabric.
Ladies in a Baddle See Equestrian Lesson by Prof De Gispert
In a Cincinnati Enquirer report, Prof IlG Gispert, a famed riding tutor, demonstrates correct female saddle ettiquette and riding posture. He shows the three wrong ways and the one right way, with precise leg position, stirrup use, and balance. Several riders applaud as he leads a demonstration for a class of young women with a lively crowd responding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. de Gispert
Saddlas
Il. de Gliapert
Academy
Ridora
Cincinnati Enquirer
A Nickel Shave at a 5 Cent Barber Shop
A Chronicle report describes a busy second day at a nickel barber shop on Toheame street near Fourth, where barber Richards offers quick shaves for five cents. The cramped, worn shop features a battered chair, a small mirror, and a lamp warming the dim room as customers line up daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toheame Street
Fourth
Montgomery Street
Chronicle
The Sense of Smell and Urban Districts
Readable fragments describe how urban odors reveal districts from dry goods areas to wholesale liquor blocks and horse and carriage zones. It notes distinctive scents from restaurants bakeries confectioneries tailors liquor stores printers and bookbinders in Shoemakerville Pa and nearby areas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tailor’s
Also Mentioned on This Page
Pderings
India
Island
We Island
Italy
Gens-D’armes
Napoleon
Ajaccio
Bonaparte
Brance
Napoleon III
the Canary
Ajacceo
Orsican Country Road
Razor
Richards
San Francisco Chronicle
Siam
Shoemakerville
Chicago
Bologna
Pisa
Tower
Lot
Victoria
Grasse
England
Ponsonby
Monhegan, Me
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