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Odds and Ends Highlights From a Bustling Era
A collage of brief items from Boston and beyond touching wealth, fashion, theater, and public figures. Notable notes include Boston’s millionaire count, a $12,500 Patti purchase, Verdi and Wagner praise, Lippincott’s land office role, and satire on clergy and journalism amid 1870s social currents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Sullivan
Johnson
Olive Logan
Wyoming
Pere Hyacinthe
Boston
Mme
Essipoff
Paris
General Custer
Galaccy
Richards Gibbs
New York
Peru
Tom Murphy
Ristari
Stoltz
Rossi
Dr. &. KK. Lippincott
C.D. Warner
Wagner
Munich
New Orleans
Collyer
Bremerhaven
Chicago
Satan
Pekin
Sezhuen
Moody
Sankey
Philadelphia
Pield Marshal von Wrangel
Rothschilds
Astors
Great Britain
Mulliner
Michigan
Florida
Atlanta
Georgia