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1866 The Morning Chronicle Statistics recently published show that thirty million bottles of champagne are annually produced in France and are thus apportioned: Africa 1,000,000; Spain and Portugal 200,000; Italy …
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1866 The Morning Chronicle We have to record an attempt, on a rather large scale, to intimidate a number of men who were working on board a vessel at Levis …
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1866 The Morning Chronicle Private subscriptions are taking place for Portland sufferers. Culled from the Web: The Great Fire of Portland, Maine, occurred on July 4, 1866, on the first Independence …
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1866 The Morning Chronicle About five o’clock yesterday afternoon a fire broke out in the back of a watchmaker and jeweler shop on St. John street. There was a dearth …
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1866 The Morning Chronicle The celebration of the festival of St. John the Baptist was decidedly the most brilliant we have seen for many years. Our French Canadian fellow-citizens had …
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1866 The Morning Chronicle Fenianism, after rising for a brief space of time to dignity of an excitement, has once more turned out a complete fizzle. The grand projected campaign …
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1866 The Morning Chronicle The formal inauguration of the new and extensive premises added in the course of last winter to the St. Louis Hotel, St. Lewis street, took place …
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1866 The Morning Chronicle A small schooner, name unknown, has been found adrift of L’Islet with the body of an unknown man lashed to the rigging. An inquest has been held, …
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1866 The Morning Chronicle Temperatures at Quebec – “An Observer” sends the following: on 16th May, at 6 o’clock of the following years the temperature was as follows: 1863–76 [degrees …
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1866 The Morning Chronicle The French Cathedral had a narrow escape from total destruction or extensive damage by fire on Saturday. About half-past ten o’clock, it was discovered that the …