The year without a summer, The Times, London, England, July 5, 1816
A Hamburgh paper contains the following extract of a private letter from Bordeaux, dated June 15: - “We really do not know here where we are.
We sit with our doors and windows closed, and with fire burning on the hearth, as in the middle of winter. It is as cold as in October, and the sky is dark and rainy. Violent winds, accompanied with heavy rain and hail, rage round our country houses; the low grounds are under water; if we have one tolerably warm day, several cold and rainy ones are sure to follow. The oldest people in the country do not recollect such a summer.”
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The year 1816 is known as the Year Without a Summer (also the Poverty Year, the Summer that Never Was, Year There Was No Summer, and Eighteen Hundred and Froze to Death), because of severe climate abnormalities that caused average global temperatures to decrease by 0.4–0.7 °C (0.7–1.3 °F). This resulted in major food shortages across the Northern Hemisphere. Evidence suggests the anomaly was predominantly a volcanic winter event caused by the massive 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), the largest eruption in at least 1,300 years after the extreme weather events of 535–536. The Earth had already been in a centuries-long period of global cooling that started in the 14th century. Known today as the Little Ice Age, it had already caused considerable agricultural distress in Europe. The Little Ice Age’s existing cooling was aggravated by the eruption of Tambora which occurred during its concluding decades.
The Times, London, England, July 6, 1816
Paris - A French Gentleman, who will shortly repair to Paris, is desirous of meeting with a Nobleman or Gentleman who would wish for the society of a person well acquainted with the above capital. The advertiser would simply expect to be exonerated from the expenses of the journey, and would in return be found a useful companion in Paris: he would have no objection to take charge of one or more young gentlemen going as above, either to conduct them there, or return with them.
Brooklyn, New York, June 9, 1845
LOST CHILDREN!
ANDREW OAKES, ESQ., CORONER, having kindly offered to receive into his family and take care of Children who may have strayed from their homes, so as to enable Parents and Guardians more readily to recover them -
THIS IS TO GIVE NOTICE
to all persons into whose hands LOST CHILDREN may come, that the offer has been accepted, with thanks, and it is earnestly requested that such may be taken to the store of ANDREW OAKES, No. 163 Fulton Street, that they may by taken care of.
By order of Common Counsel.
Brooklyn, New York, September 23, 1844
PROCLAMATION
Whereas, the Public Lamps of this city are often wantonly injured by evil disposed persons; now therefore, I, J. Sprague, Mayor of the city of Brooklyn, by virtue of authority vested in me, do hereby offer a reward of TEN DOLLARS for the detection and conviction of any person breaking the glass of the city lamps, or otherwise violating the 11th section of title 2d of “A Law to prevent evil practices in the city of Brooklyn.”
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Mayoralty of the city of Brooklyn, this 14th day of September, 1843.
J. Sprague, Mayor.
Brooklyn, New York, September 23, 1844
REWARD
By virtue of a resolution of the Common Council passed May 27th, 1844, I hereby offer a reward of FIFTY CENTS for every dog that is not muzzled so as to prevent him from biting that may be killed while running at large in the city of Brooklyn, and afterwards buried, upon satisfactory evidence thereof being given to me, from this date
J. SPRAUGE, Mayor.
Brooklyn, New York, September 23, 1844
May 3, 1833
The above Negro now says his name is Lewis - and that he belongs to George Lee of Orangeburg District, S. C.
B.F. (Benjamin Franklin) Keith was a highly influential vaudeville and early motion picture theater owner. Born in 1846, at 17 Keith moved from New Hampshire to New York and began working at Bunnell’s museum and then in various circuses, including P.T. Barnum’s. In 1883, with
Colonel William Austin, he opened his own museum which they named the Gaiety. A 123 seat lecture hall was soon added above the curio museum where vaudeville shows began to appear.
In 1886 he co-purchased the Bijou Theatre in Boston with Edward Franklin Albee II. Eight years later Keith opened a $600,000 self-named theatre next door to the Bijou, “B.F. Keith’s Theatre” which became their flagship location. Keith had strong belief in physical and moral cleanliness, partly in thanks to his pious Roman Catholic wife, and helped changed the way vaudeville was seen. The theatres he and his partner opened were morally clean, physically opulent and his stars were treated very well.
He and Albee went on to purchase the exclusive American rights to the Lumière patented cinematograph equipment (effectively the first motion pictures, which, unlike Edison’s single view viewer, allowed multiple people to watch the same film at once) in 1896, opening theatres in Boston, New York, Pennsylvania, and then across America, buying up smaller locations.
By 1909 when he withdrew from business he had over 400 theatres with his name on them. He died in Florida in 1914.
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