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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Turkish headsman. When he went out he carried a stout cane like a club, in the end of which was a long sharp spike. This served him as a defensive weapon, for the old man was very much afraid of robbers. On the street he always wore the same cap and red neckerchief which served him in his last years, and in his pockets he carried crumbs with which to feed birds, of which he was very fond. If he had anything to carry, were it a pound of sugar from the grocery, white grapes for his favorite chickens...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMUNICATIONS. | 1/10/1884 | See Source »

Found in U. 5, a stylographic pen. Owner can have it by applying to C. J. Hubbard, there. Found, also, cap to a stylograph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 1/5/1884 | See Source »

Found in U. 5, a stylographic pen. Owner can have it by applying to C. J. Hubbard, there. Found, also, cap to a stylograph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 1/4/1884 | See Source »

Found in U. 5, a stylographic pen. Owner can have it by applying to C. J. Hubbard, there. Found, also, cap to a stylograph...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SPECIAL NOTICES. | 1/3/1884 | See Source »

...master. He remembers his transfer to the world of public school foot-ball the punt about between hours, the compulsory game, the matches for "cock house," the foreign matches, the Old Boys' match, and finally the ecstatic moment when he found himself elected to the dignity of a cap. That cap be still preserves among the curios in his smoking-room and perhaps regards in with greater affection than anything else, inasmuch as it speaks to him of a part of his active life which is irrevocably past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OLD FOOT-BALL PLAYER. | 12/22/1883 | See Source »

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