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Word: cars (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Union Railway Company has restored the night car to Boston. It will leave Harvard Square on the even hours, and the fare on the 1, 2, 3, and 4 o'clock trips will be ten cents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 2/7/1879 | See Source »

...SCENE: Car on N. Y. Central R. R., crowded with students from Union College, who are making a great deal of noise...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...brightly varnished Cane), disembarked at Dana Street. The conductor, however, pointing at him the Finger of Scorn, exclaimed: "That Man was probably ignorant that by the new Rule his Ticket would convey him to The Square, Ha! Ha!" The Freshman, overhearing the low-minded Fellow, determined to overtake the Car, but slipped on the Ice and, falling, broke his Cane. "Alas!" cried he, blushing at his Discomfiture, "had I but formerly bought White Tickets, this Calamity would never have occurred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CARMAN AND THE FRESHMAN. | 1/10/1879 | See Source »

...coming out from Boston. When you spend the night with your uncle on Commonwealth Avenue, do not come out before ten. Grinder takes the half-past-eight car every morning; he lives at his home in East Chelsea, and has a nine-o'clock recitation - which he never cuts - every day in the week, as he takes twenty-eight hours of electives this year. An exception may be made of Monday morning, when Mr Beck, of Beacon Street, refreshed by his devotions at Trinity, takes the nine-o'clock car, to the great delight of his parents, - and then plays...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HORSE-CARS. | 11/8/1878 | See Source »

...afternoon cars are not at all desirable; but, if you are forced to come out to dinner, take the 5.45 car, as that shows you 're not at Memorial...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HORSE-CARS. | 11/8/1878 | See Source »

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