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January 1882
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February 1882
John L. Sullivan establishes himself as bare knuckle boxing champion on February 7, 1882. Although New Orleans is used as a training camp, the fight itself must be fought at a secret location, which for this fight turns out to be Mississippi City, Mississippi. Sullivan, 23 at the time challenged 29-year old Paddy Ryan and Irishman from Troy, N. Y. |
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June 1882
In June 1882 Oscar O’Flaherty Wills Wilde, still in his 20s, visits New Orleans on a nationwide lecture tour promoting Gilbert and Sullivan s Patience. Wilde had created the term Aesthetic Movement to describe the rush of artistic energy that was sweeping away Victorian severity in London. He gave lectures at the French Opera House and at the Spanish Fort Pavilion. He visits with George Washington Cable, attended a voodoo rite, and was driven around town by General Beauregard. |
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December 1882
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| Dr. Rudolph Matas translates Dr. Findlay’s theory on Yellow Fever and publishes it in the New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal. | The O’Brien brothers live at 704 Esplanade. Patrick Burke O’Brien arrives from St. Louis in 1844 at age 20 and Richard Michael O’Brien followed in 1955 at age 22. They owned the Columbus Cotton Press on Tchoupitoulas Street The old Jackson press and R. M. was president of the New Orleans City Railroad Company for years. | In 1882, 100 pounds of moss, cured and dried, costs $3 to $4. Spanish moss is neither Spanish or moss, it is an epiphyte, a rootless fragment of a plant. The French called it Spanish beard, the Spanish called it French hair in retaliation. The Indians called it itla okla. Tillandsia usneoides is used for upholstering furniture, replacing horse hair. In the 1920s over $2.5 million worth was shipped from Louisiana. | Louis Winterhalder works for the Daily Picayune in New Orleans from 1882 until 1931 will create the weather frog and the first political cartoon in a New Orleans newspaper. | Touro Infirmary moves to 1401 Foucher St., its present site, from Coliseum Square. | |||||||
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