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also by expanding the circulation of Italy's new currency, the lira." The coupon system spread rapidly and was well accepted throughout
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Rutland. A son, John Mason Cook, was born on 13 January 1834. A daughter, Annie Elizabeth, born on 21 June 1845, died in a bath aged 35 after inhaling poisonous fumes from a faulty water heater.
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in London. Four years later, he planned his first excursion abroad, when he took two groups on a 'grand circular tour' of
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each for the return train journey, on his first excursion. This is sometimes reported as the world's first railway excursion; however this is incorrect as
Grosmont church (
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lodging and meals at designated accommodations. Last, he introduced the circular notes which could be changed at designated hotels, banks, and tickets agents for
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