The Adventures of a Forty-niner: An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days.
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Link Singerman ID: supp2634
Year: 1894
Entry: Knower, Daniel. The Adventures of a Forty-niner: An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days. Albany: Weed-Parsons Printing Co., Printers, 1894. 200 p.
Author/Editor: Knower, Daniel
Location: Albany, NY
Holdings: In most academic libraries
Title: The Adventures of a Forty-niner: An Historic Description of California, with Events and Ideas of San Francisco and Its People in Those Early Days.
Printer/Publisher: Weed-Parsons Printing Co., Printers
Language: English
Notes: See p. 60 for remarks about a Jewish speculator in potatoes, then a scarcity; pp. 162-63, the owner of an unfinished brewery in San Francisco borrows money from a Jew at a monthly interest rate of twenty per-cent. On p. 46, a nephew of the Rothschilds is relocating to San Francisco from Valparaiso, Chile, to establish a new branch of the family’s banking empire.