Showing posts with label commerce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label commerce. Show all posts
Thursday, November 16, 2023

The Prospect of Constantinople

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‘The Prospect of Constantinople, when ye behold it from the top of the Channel, at the distance of two Miles, is beyond compare, as being to...
Sunday, October 15, 2023

Sunday school demonstration

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‘Great demonstration of the Church of England Sunday Schools. About 15,000 walked in procession. Hugh Birley, Esq., addressed them in the Pa...
Thursday, November 3, 2022

Longest Latin America diary

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Heinrich Witt, a Danish merchant and financier who lived in Peru, died 130 years ago today. He is remembered for a diary he kept for much of...
Sunday, October 25, 2020

A jewel beyond price

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‘I availed myself of a regular rainy day to stay at home and prepare books for binding and file my letters. Such a day once in a while is a ...
Saturday, January 11, 2020

Breaking one ship against another

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‘And that day in the evening, being the 11th January, being Saturday, at night there began to blow and arise a very violent storm. It began ...
Wednesday, December 25, 2019

Plenty of ladies at the ball

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150 years ago today, Alfred Doten, a journalist in Nevada, was celebrating Christmas with Charley Ockel’s eggnog, a supper of fried egg and ...
Sunday, December 1, 2019

A hell of a night

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Charles Graves, brother to the famous poet and novelist Robert, was born 120 years ago today. He was a Fleet Street reporter and columnist w...
Wednesday, November 6, 2019

Hogsheads and puncheons

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‘Yesterday arrived, the Continental Schooner Wasp, Captain Baldwin; brought with her a large Guinea ship bound from Jamaica for Liverpool, h...
Tuesday, May 14, 2019

Caught in the mustard mill

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‘George McNally was caught in the belts of the mustard mill at 6 p.m. and all his clothes were ripped from his back, and yet not much hurt. ...