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Some 2,800 stockholders in two lately obscure U.S. corporations are about to be inundated with 255,000 bbl. of rye and Kentucky bourbon. That is 12,240,000 gal., or 48,960,000 quarts, or 61,200,000 fifths of Christmas cheer. The cheer...
...save excess-profits taxes, Baltimore's small Tom Moore Distillery last week declared a dividend of 27 gal. of bourbon whiskey for every one of its 17,500 shares...
...farmers invented rye and bourbon whiskey because by the time Midwesterners could get their corn to the Eastern markets the horses that carried it would have had to eat it all up. A Kentucky ironmaster named William Kelly discovered the blast furnace by accident when he let a blast of air pass through his molten iron; even his young wife was so skeptical of the process (he correctly insisted that cold air raises the temperature of molten metal) that she had his head examined...
...infantry had fought across one of Italy's most famous battlegrounds. Here, in the damp autumn of 1860, bearded Giuseppe Garibaldi, poncho-clad and kerchief around his brow, had walked among his ragged redshirts, crying, "Courage! Courage!" Here, on the Capuan plain, he had beaten the Bourbon King of Naples and advanced Italy a long step toward liberation and unity...
Throughout the 19th century New Orleans disputed Manhattan's claim to be operatic capital of the U.S. The plush opera house on Bourbon and Toulouse streets was the focus of Creole society. Debutantes in French muslins hung over the rails of its red and ivory boxes. People in mourning and octoroon courtesans took their opera behind latticed screens. Barbers and hairdressers discussed high Cs with their customers. During one performance of Faust, an expectant mother is said to have turned to her husband, remarking: "Pierre, I do not think I can wait for the ballet." Many a French opera...