some people abstained from eating the flesh of mammals and birds on Fridays but eating alligator and rattlesnake would have been acceptable
Coffee with cream and sugar
Tablehopping became a dining room pastime
The Hotel Traymore was a resort in Atlantic City
Swift & Company dates back to 1855
Winthrop House, Boston 1852 Sizes:A3 (297x420mm) Archival Print (Unframed) some people abstained from eatingFrom the Boston Transcript, April 4, 1864: "Last night, about 12 o'clock, fire was discovered in a closet under the second flight of stairs in the Masonic Fraternity's Building on the corner of Tremont and Boylston streets. The building was a mammoth brick structure, composed of six stories, three of which were occupied as the Winthrop House, and the upper three as Freemason Halls. The Winthrop House was first opened as a hotel by Col. SILSBY, in