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Diverse 19th Century Inquiries and Oddities From Global Press
A roundup of notes covers cremation renewal in Japan, a hero’s autohistory, annatto butter coloring, liquor consumption by San Francisco versus Chicago, elephant preservation laws in Ceylon, a 11 ft 6 in Yokohama crab, Formosa camphor losses, and an ex-London Times editor who is a knight. It reports pecuniary gains for detectives from Charley Ross, Florida Georgia melon crops, 20 million trees in U.S. orchards, Juban deserters, Gotham cocktails, and theater seasons in October. It notes various political and social curiosities from Brigham Young to Catholic armies, temperance pledges, and new railway/canal ambitions in Russia, with scattered named figures and locations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gadde
Laas
Japan
John Bright
Chicago
Ceylon
Yokohama
Formosa
London Times
Charley Ross
Florida
Georgia
Gotham
Booth’s Theater
St. Paul
Robinson's Circus
Pope
France
M. Tevin
Hamlet
Lyceum
London
Charles Fechter
St. Lawrence Hall
Montreal
Livingston County
Ilinois
Gilmore
Connecticut
Warmoth
Louisiana
Albert Lea
Minn
Boston More Press
Joshua
Daily Sun
Brigham Young
Briggy
Sartoris
Ion
William Cody
Keraronwee
Ottawa
Don Alfonso
Don Carlos
Carleton
N. Y
Boston
Victor Lugo
Frances Et Germains
Uimmond
Thomas Flood
Des Moines
Paris
New Caledonia
Cape
India
Golby
University of Berlin
First Baptist Church of
San Francisco
James Coyle
Cambridge
Mass
Shortwell & Co
Count Uogosprinzenstein
Austria
United States
Baron Schwarz Senborn
Keeley
Titusville
Connecticut State Prison
Solyoke
Black
Caspian
Russia