Word: beavers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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However, like all other students he found the paths of knowledge very steep and hard to climb, and we read the sorrowful intelligence in a letter from the young man's tutor to his mother that "not long since your kinsman being in the Colledge Buttry at Beaver at the pmitted hower between 8 and 9 of ye clock at night, the Deane came in, charged him to be gone, he told him he would and was presently deputing. The Deane tells him, unless Sr Gawdy you bad forthwith gone I should have sett you out : upon that your kinsman...
...trustees of Dickinson College at Carlisle, Pa., are anxious to secure an endowment fund for the college of $100,000. They have recently received toward this $30,000 in seven per cent. bonds given them by Mr. Thomas Beaver of Danville, Pa., an uncle of General Beaver, the Republican candidate for governor...
...laying of the corner-stone of the new produce exchange on Broadway, near Beaver street, New York, took place yesterday afternoon with imposing ceremonies, and in the presence of a large throng of people...
Daniel Pratt has appeared in his spring hat. It is similar in form to the conventional beaver, but of a snowy white hue. The general effect is quite unique and we congratulate the new Beau Brummel on his new acquisition...
...hear him in the original, like my friend Salviny; but you've got to excuse me now; I'm goin' to lecture before the Woman Suffrage Society with my friend Ker'nel Higginson - I'm goin' to carry the pitcher of water on the stage" - and, rubbing his ancient beaver on his shiny coat-sleeve, Dan'l bowed the reporter...