In the 1890s the Sears & Roebuck catalogue, which was distributed to millions of Americans homes, offered a syringe and a small amount of cocaine for $ 1. 50.

The Sears Roebuck catalog first offered rouge for lips and cheeks by the late 1890s.

An important figure in the San Francisco Bay Area literary renaissance of the 1890s, particularly through his iconoclastic little magazine, The Lark, he is best known as a writer of nonsense verse.

Half Moon Bay had been setting for yachting since the 1890s, and a branch of the Brighton Yacht Club formed the Black Rock Yacht Club in 1919.

The park's history dates to the 1890s, when entrepreneur Mitchell Nejedlo purchased the land he would turn into Bay View Beach.

From the 1860s through the 1890s, small hard clams ( quahogs ) from Little Neck Bay were served in the best restaurants of New York and several European capitals.

These three bays surround the container port of Glebe Island which has been attached to the shoreline as part of the extensive reclamation of Rozelle Bay and White Bay which had begun in the 1890s.

Bay View Park was developed in the 1890s and includes a Civil War monument.

Prior to that M. C. Davies had a timber railway system that went to both Hamelin Bay and Flinders Bay jetties in the 1890s.

The name of the locality of Flinders Bay is tied to the small settlement that had been a whaling and fishing location, as well as the terminus of the Busselton to Flinders Bay Branch Railway railway line ( 1920s-closed 1957 ), and the earlier Flinders Bay jetty ( 1890s ).

Cumberland House Provincial Park, which provides tours of an 1890s powder house built by the Hudson's Bay Company, is located nearby.

* A song named " Botany Bay " was performed in the 1890s, based on older tunes.

Sherlock Holmes, the ancestor of all private eyes, was born during the 1890s.

In Canada this practice occurred during the 1890s, but was not commonplace until the 1920s.

At the time, in the 1890s, the issue of land ownership in Ireland was politically charged, and after the events at the Valley House in 1894 Lynchehaun was to claim that his actions were motivated by politics.

In the 1890s Australia was affected by a severe economic depression, ending a hectic era of land booms and tumultuous expansionism.

By the 1890s, the company was the largest and most profitable industrial enterprise in the world.

This new banjo was at first tuned dGDF # A, though by the 1890s this had been transposed up to gCGBD.

The word bicycle was coined by the Belgian newspaper La Gaulois in the 1890s.

Rupert had invested in the stock market and by the early 1890s was extremely wealthy.

The Third Pandemic hit China in the 1890s and devastated India, but was confined to limited outbreaks in the west.

By the 1890s, the portion from 23rd Street to 34th Street was so brightly illuminated by electrical advertising signs, that people began calling it " The Great White Way.

Beginning in the 1880s and 1890s through the end of his life in 1926, Monet worked on " series " paintings, in which a subject was depicted in varying light and weather conditions.

There was a revival in the 1890s, but from then onwards, croquet was always a minority sport, with national individual participation amounting to a few thousand players.

Hughes was a professor in the 1890s, a staunch supporter of Britain's New Liberalism, an important leader of the progressive movement of the 20th century, a leading diplomat and New York lawyer in the days of Harding and Coolidge, and was known for being a swing voter when dealing with cases related to the New Deal in the 1930s.

However, by 1913, and more explicitly by 1920, Kraepelin admitted that although there seemed to be a residual cognitive defect in most cases, the prognosis was not as uniformly dire as he had stated in the 1890s.

The Ohio League, which traced its history to the 1890s, was the predecessor of today's NFL.

As a composer, Schmidt was slow to develop, but his reputation, at least in Austria, saw a steady growth from the late 1890s until his death in 1939.

The exaggerated walk, with one hand on the small of his back and his torso bent almost 90 degrees at the waist was a parody of a fad from the 1880s and 1890s.

In the 1890s, English socialist poet Edward Carpenter and Scottish anarchist John Henry Mackay wrote in defense of same-sex love and androgyny ; Carpenter and British homosexual rights advocate John Addington Symonds contributed to the development of Havelock Ellis's groundbreaking book Sexual Inversion, which called for tolerance towards " inverts " and was suppressed when first published in England.

The family eventually settled in Goshen and by the 1890s was one of the wealthiest families in the Mid-West, due mostly to the highly profitable Goshen Milling Company.

By the mid 1890s, the Golden Dawn was well established in Great Britain, with membership rising to over a hundred and including every class of Victorian society.

By the 1890s Greece was virtually bankrupt, and public insolvency was declared in 1893.

Government Center was developed in the late 1890s as the southern terminus of Henry Flagler's Florida East Coast Railway ( FEC ) from 1896 through 1905 ( see Overseas Highway ).

The town is one terminus of the isolated Normanton-Croydon Railway, which was built during gold rush days in the 1890s.

The terminus beside Portrush Railway Station, 1890s The Giant's Causeway Tramway, operated by the Giant's Causeway, Portrush and Bush Valley Railway & Tramway Company Ltd, was a pioneering gauge electric narrow gauge railway operating between Portrush and the Giant's Causeway on the coast of County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Between the 1880s and the 1890s, Karl Pearson proposed the existence of " squirts " ( sources ) and sinks of the flow of aether.

Throughout the 1890s Deakin was a participant in conferences of representatives of the Australian colonies that were established to draft a constitution for the proposed federation.

With the military defeats in the 1890s and pressure to develop a national school system, reformers such as Kang Yuwei and Liang Qichao called for abolition and the Hundred Days ' Reform of 1898 proposed a set of modernizations.

These experiments convinced Chanute that the best way to achieve extra lift without a prohibitive increase in weight was to stack several wings one above the other, an idea proposed by British engineer Francis Wenham in 1866 and realized in flight by Lilienthal in the 1890s.

Tychism ( " chance ") is a thesis proposed by the American philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce in the 1890s.

A few years later Emile Bachelet proposed the idea of a metal carriage levitated in air above the rails in a modern railway, which he showcased in the early 1890s.

Nicholas Johannsen also proposed a theory of effective demand in the 1890s.

Throughout the 1890s, Chant was concerned about how little the University did for astronomy, and in 1904 he proposed adding several undergraduate courses for fourth-year students, and six such courses were added to the 1905 calendar.

* The construction of a branch line was proposed between Flemington Bridge Station and Pascoe Vale Station in the early 1890s as a means of reducing Melbourne's rising unemployment rate.

In the 1890s W. M. Davis proposed a cycle of ' wearing down ' in which so called ' young ' landscapes had high gradients and elevations, and waning, low elevation topography through middle age to old age.

In the 1890s, Frederick Van Voorhies Holman, a Portland lawyer and a president of the Oregon Historical Society, proposed a gift of of nearby land that was added to the city's holdings in 1939 when his siblings, George F. and Mary Holman, completed the donation.

In the 1890s, Edward E. Barnard was the first to observe variations in Io's brightness between its equatorial and polar regions, correctly determining that this was due to differences in color and albedo between the two regions and not due to Io being egg-shaped, as proposed at the time by fellow astronomer William Pickering, or two separate objects, as initially proposed by Barnard.

Genetic determinism, which identifies the gene as the biological source of morphology and instinct, can be traced back to Austrian theorist August Weismann, who proposed in the 1890s that the key actors in the struggle for survival are not organisms but their genes, which he called determinants.

Vittorio Bottego, who explored the area in the later 1890s, proposed naming the river after Admiral Simone Arturo Saint-Bon.

In the 1890s, following a scheme proposed by Sir John Jackson, it was decided to expand the naval dockyard at Keyham, near Plymouth, and dredging began offshore from Hallsands to provide sand and gravel for its construction.

In the 1890s, Joseph Charles François de Rey-Pailhade, president of the Toulouse Geographical Society, proposed dividing the day into 100 parts, called cés, equal to 14. 4 standard minutes, and divided into 10 decicés, 100 centicés, etc.