Divorce, Insanity, and Celery Tonic

Sometimes a story is a story.

The New York papers had a scandalous and salacious story in the October 22, 1889 papers. The whole story reads like something out of a Victorian melodrama. A perfumer enters a hotel room where his wife is with another man! The young man flees, and the perfumer drives his wife in a carriage to her father’s home. He wakes the old man, leaving him with the woman, saying, “There is your daughter, keep her.”

If this were an 1889 play, there would be no hope of reviving it in 2014. But this story really happened. Well, it sort of happened. During this time, there were morning and evening papers, so before New Yorkers went to bed on October 22, 1889, they had heard both sides of the story. Or at least the beginning of the story.

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Pricey Stuff

Could I get enough to make a ring?

Radium was discovered in 1898 by Pierre and Marie Curie, and in 1905 it was still very valuable. Incredibly valuable.

On June 24, 1905, the *St. Tammany Farmer* of Covington, Louisiana reported that

The latest London quotation of radium was $890,000 an ounce.

Unfortunately, this price was not sufficiently high to prevent people from using dangerous amounts of radium in cosmetics, watch dials, and other products.

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