Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...fire alarm from box 71 last evening was caused by a slight fire in a barn on Tannery street, North Cambridge...
...opera house at New York is to have a capital of one million fifty thousand dollars, divided among seventy-five shareholders. Each shareholder has a box but will have to pay the regular price of admission. The interior will resemble the European opera houses. There will be three tiers of boxes. The seating capacity will be three thousand, and there will be room for five hundred more admissions. The stage will be the largest in New York, allowing seven hundred performers to assemble at one time...
...miles from Harper's Ferry, on the main road to Winchester, where the belligerents were continually ousting one another's forces. Lest any mishap should befall the medal, it was placed, with its original case of green sealskin lined with velvet, in a wrapping of cotton, deposited in a box, and buried in the dry cellar of the venerable mansion where Washington was wont to pass many pleasant holidays. The losses sustained by the last individual owner during the war, the fear of losing the medal by theft, fire, or accident, and the sense of relief expected to follow...
Wanted - A Harvard student familiar with college preparatory work to hear four recitations a day in advanced classics in a high school. Graduate of Exeter preferred. Salary, sixty dollars a month. Address Box 997, Westfield, Mass...
...receipts of the box office show that there were nearly 30,000 persons present, and an equal number of slaves and women...