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...their Christmas shopping early, the city's mustachioed new Police Commissioner Thomas F. Murphy last week warned against an old coppers' custom. He would fine, suspend, fire or prosecute any policeman caught, as three captains were last year, soliciting gratuities, handing out lists of expected presents from saloon and store owners on the beat or for that matter, even accepting gifts...
...Wooster street taproom of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Moriarty was dependent upon the same source for its income, but shone out above all other New Haven alehouses in disdaining the common American saloon trapping in favor of a quiet European charm and hospitality. A Yaleman of this era wrote, "Frank's offered a hospitality and possessed a dignity never acquired by any one of the various saloons in the district...
...bustling week for Britain's royal family, Princess Margaret paid her first official visit to Oxford, planted a tree and declared the Imperial Forestry Institute a going concern. A new car for Princess Elizabeth arrived, a dark green Daimler "consort" saloon model (price: ?1,690) complete with radio, air conditioning unit and make-up compartment. Up from Malta came father Philip to join the family in the white-and-gold music room of Buckingham Palace for another christening. Queen Elizabeth, Princess Margarita of Hohenlohe-Langenburg, Princess Andrew of Greece (by proxy), Earl Mountbatten and the Hon. Andrew Elphinstone, first...
...Emperor, renders the power of Russia imminently dangerous to the peace of Europe." At home Harper's kept its editorial finger on the pulse of a lively, swiftly changing nation. It reported that in San Francisco in 1855, "the places of universal resort were the Drinking Saloon and Gambling House." Harper's interiewed "Wild Bill" Hickok, who was said to have killed at least 20 men in gunfights, and recorded his feelings on such matters...
...Malamute saloon; The kid that handles the music...