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1874 and hoax
In The Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874, as it became known, the speaker would encourage the listener to act foolishly by reacting to patent nonsense that the hoaxer deliberately presents as reality.
Similar to The New York Zoo hoax of 1874, several newspapers propagated the very successful practical joke by printing stories containing false sightings of Tom Collins.
Since New York based Thomas would have known about the wide spread hoax and the contents of the 1876 published book were developed during or right after The Great Tom Collins hoax of 1874, the hoax event is the most plausible source of the name for the Tom Collins cocktail.
The New York Zoo hoax is also known as The Central Park Zoo Escape and the Central Park Menagerie Scare of 1874.
It was a hoax perpetrated by the New York Herald about a supposed breakout of animals from the Central Park Zoo on November 9, 1874.

1874 and quickly
Even more significant in terms of effect were private militias, paramilitary organizations that formed starting in 1874, including the White League in Louisiana, which quickly formed chapters in other states ; the Red Shirts in Mississippi in 1875, and with force in South Carolina and North Carolina ; as well as other " White Line " militias and rifle clubs.
Grace's team landed in England on 18 May 1874 and he was quickly back into domestic cricket.
The first of their exhibitions, which were quickly dubbed Impressionist Exhibitions, was in 1874.
In 1874, the town's post office reopened and Henrietta quickly became the economic hub of north central Texas.
Campbell-Bannerman rose quickly through the ministerial ranks, being appointed as Financial Secretary to the War Office in Gladstone's first government in November 1871, serving in this position until 1874.
During the summer of 1874, Smetana began to lose his hearing, and total deafness quite quickly followed ; he woke on the morning of 20 October to find himself completely unable to hear anything.
It quickly outgrew its first building and moved into a new facility in 1874.
He received the patent for barbed wire in 1874 and was quickly embroiled in a legal battle over whether he actually invented it.
When the survey work was definitively ended in 1874, Whitney returned to Harvard and opened the school of mines, which was quickly merged a year later into the Lawrence Scientific School.
* Founded in 1874 as The Morning Herald, it quickly became one of Halifax's main newspapers.
Cox and Box quickly became a Victorian staple, with additional productions in Manchester in 1869 and on tour in 1871 ( conducted by Richard D ' Oyly Carte, with the composer's brother Fred playing Cox ), at London's Alhambra Theatre in 1871, with Fred as Cox, and at the Gaiety Theatre in 1872, 1873, and 1874 ( the last of these again starring Fred as Cox and Cecil as Box ), and Manchester again in 1874 ( paired with The Contrabandista ).
It quickly outgrew its first building and moved into a new one in 1874.
After his death in Wiesbaden in 1874, the idea of putting up Litfaßsäulen ( Litfaß columns or Litfaß pillars ) quickly spread to other German cities.

1874 and gained
At the Bangor Eisteddfod of 1874 Hen Wlad fy Nhadau gained further popularity when it was sung by Robert Rees (" Eos Morlais "), one of the leading Welsh soloists of his day.
In 1874, the area of Jerusalem gained a special status of the Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem.
The white minority bitterly resented federal authority and the Republican party county government that continued even after the Democratic party gained control of the state government in 1874.
Most of Baol was conquered by the French in 1874, however complete control of the former kingdom was not gained by France until 1895.
The town's violent crime rate was substantial during the 1870s, Grant County Sheriff Harvey Whitehill was elected in 1874, and gained a sizable reputation for his abilities at controlling trouble.
While Hardy wrote poetry throughout his life, and regarded himself primarily as a poet, his first collection was not published until 1898, so that initially he gained fame as the author of such novels as, Far from the Madding Crowd ( 1874 ), The Mayor of Casterbridge ( 1886 ), Tess of the d ' Urbervilles ( 1891 ), and Jude the Obscure ( 1895 ).
Educated at University College School, he entered Trinity College, Cambridge in 1870, became a scholar and first Smith's Prizeman, and gained his BA in 1874 as second Wrangler.
A native Ohioan who first acquired an interest in the Tribune in 1855, Medill gained full control of the newspaper in 1874 and ran it until his death in 1899.
Schichau gained an associate when his daughter married around 1873 Carl H. Ziese ( 1848-1917 ) the constructor in 1874 of the first Compound engine to be integrated in a German gunship.
* Major Anthony George Hamilton ( 1874 – 1936 ), who fought in the First World War and gained the rank of Major in the service of the East Kent Regiment.
It gained prominence during an incident in 1874, when a posse from Caldwell burned down the building, after erroneously believing that the objects of their search were inside.
He gained a third class degree in natural science in 1874 and was awarded his Master of Arts degree in 1875.
In 1874, Union Pacific investor Jay Gould gained effective control of the Kansas Pacific.
The station gained a-long ridge furrow patterened glass roof likened at the time to The Crystal Palace ( in London ) which spanning the main line platforms in 1867 and was further enlarged in 1874, the well-known railway contractors Logan and Hemingway being awarded the contract.
He gained the courtesy title of Lord Ramsay in 1874 when his father succeeded in the earldom of Dalhousie on the death of his first cousin, Fox Maule-Ramsay, 11th Earl of Dalhousie.
Born in Paris, son of Charles Picot ( Orléans, August 4, 1795-Paris, January 31, 1870 ) and wife Henriette Bidois ( Paris, 1799-Paris, November 19, 1862 ), his main work is Histoire des États généraux for which he twice gained the prize of the French Academy in 1873 and 1874.
During this time he gained considerable influence amongst metropolitan Congregationalists and secured the funds required for an ambitious rebuilding programme at the Union Chapel, between 1874 and 1890, from designs by James Cubitt.

1874 and such
His calendar for 1874 details the names of girls who appealed to him, and the list of such girls in all his diaries was very long.
From 1874, the leaders of several indigenous peoples such as Kamaherero, anticipating invasion by a European power and already suffering Portuguese encroachment from the north and Afrikaner encroachment from the south, approached the Cape Colony government to discuss the possibility of accession and the political representation it would entail.
The two lived in several Los Angeles neighborhoods, such as Echo Park, and at 1874 Hillhurst Avenue, Los Feliz district ( which was later converted into a local public library ), while his mother worked several jobs to support them.
Beginning in 1874, however, there was a rise in white paramilitary organizations, such as the White League and Red Shirts in the Deep South, whose political aim was to drive out the Republicans.
The period also marked the rise of a thriving red light district, populated by well-known local madams such as Josephine " Chicago Joe " Airey, who built a thriving business empire between 1874 and 1893, becoming one of the largest and most influential landowners in Helena.
In 1874, such militias organized as the White League in Grant Parish, and other chapters were soon founded across the state.
The central treasury proved unable to support such generosity, so in 1874, the ex-daimyo stipend was transformed into government bonds with a face value equivalent to five years ' worth of stipends, and paying five percent interest per year.
However, the separation of the groups enforced after the 1874 escapes prevented any more such relationships from forming.
Spork-like utensils, such as the terrapin fork or ice cream fork, have been manufactured since the late 19th century ; patents for spork-like designs date back to at least 1874, and the word " spork " was registered as a trademark in the US and the UK decades later.
In 1874, Albert Benjamin Simpson read Boardman ’ s Higher Christian Life and felt the need for such a life himself.
To the amusement of the other guests, Dahlmark claimed that he in 1874 had shot such an animal during a hunt north of Sundsvall.
Grant nominated Caleb Cushing for Chief Justice on January 9, 1874, but despite Cushing's great learning and eminence at the bar, his anti-war record and the feeling of distrust experienced by many members of the U. S. Senate on account of his inconsistency, aroused such vigorous opposition that his nomination was withdrawn on January 13, 1874.
Mallet patented such a system in 1874 and in 1876 the first locomotive on his principle was built, an 0-4-2T for the Bayonne and Biarritz Railway, and several others followed for railways in mainland Europe
Also beginning in 1867, he was simultaneously the federal Member of Parliament for the riding of Quebec County ( such " double mandates " were abolished in 1874 ).
Chitty entered Lincoln's Inn in 1851, was called to the bar in 1856, and made a Queen's Counsel in 1874, electing to practise as such in the court of Sir George Jessel, Master of the Rolls.
Upon learning of the plot of Leoncavallo's libretto in an 1894 French translation, the French author Catulle Mendès saw resemblances in its story to his 1874 play La Femme de Tabarin, such as the play-within-the-play and the clown murdering his wife.
Projects such as the restoration of the 1872 Moorish Revival gazebo, upgrades to the 1874 High Victorian Gothic gatehouse, repair and uprighting of stones, monuments and obelisks, and the rebuilding of the cobblestone road ( Ravine Avenue ) have been completed.
Neoclassical architecture is also present in buildings such as the Theatro da Paz, built in 1874.
The development of these idioms, as well as more conservative reactions against them, can be traced through the works of poets such as Edwin Arlington Robinson ( 1869 – 1935 ), Stephen Crane ( 1871 – 1900 ), Robert Frost ( 1874 – 1963 ) and Carl Sandburg ( 1878 – 1967 ).
It is frequently stated the referee's whistle was first used in a game between Nottingham Forest and Sheffield Norfolk in 1878 ; however the last such fixture known to have taken place between the two clubs was in 1874.
Thus, the federal government could no longer use the Enforcement Act of 1870 to prosecute actions by paramilitary groups such as the White League, which had chapters forming across Louisiana beginning in 1874.

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