Word: 1850s
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Dates: during 1937-1937
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...1840s and 1850s the U. S. was periodically swept by Asiatic cholera. In 1849, polluted drinking water brought it to Pittsburgh where in two or three weeks it killed some 5,000 of the city's 45,000 inhabitants. Business activities ceased, citizens barred themselves indoors, while carts rumbled off with the dead, and hydrants gushed to rid the town of its foulness. Among the devout who tolled their church bells and prayed for deliverance were the Catholics of St. Michael's parish on the South Side, who addressed their supplications to St. Roch and the Blessed Virgin...
...State of Oregon and biggest single business in the State is Portland's famed Meier & Frank department store. Last week Meier & Frank's show windows were filled with homely relics loaned by the Oregon Historical Society, while its elevator girls put on the balloon skirts of the 1850s to celebrate the store's eightieth anniversary. Meanwhile, for the first time in its history, Meier & Frank proposed to let its employes and the public in on ownership of the business, filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission a prospectus for sale by the stockholders of 183,928 (one fifth...
...with white marble to match the Senate and House wings. The main section of the building between the two wings, although it has been altered, is virtually all that remains of the Capitol as it was planned in 1793. Since the great cast-iron dome was built in the 1850s to replace the smaller original one, architects, including Thomas Walter, designer of the dome and Congressional wings, have argued that the east fagade should be extended so that the dome would rise from the centre of the building instead of the east portico. Some sentimentalists noted the fact that...