The railway age · Railway · Village life
Boomtown Myloi: holidays, wine and brawls
30 July 1889 (18 July 1889 old style) Proven
'It is a fine sight,' wrote the Nafplio paper: from Myloi to Tripoli crowds of workers of every nationality and language, and carts bringing rails and sleepers. But on holidays and days off this whole crowd gathered in Myloi to drink and amuse itself, often ending in fights. The paper asked for more police against 'the often quarrelling Italians, Montenegrins and others'.
- Where
- Myloi (the village), Tripoli
- Threads
- Railway, Village life
- Certainty
- Proven confirmed by primary sources
Sources
- Ἀργολίς (Nafplio), 18-7-1889 (o.s.), nr. 433 Open (opens in a new tab)
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