Word: cars
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...brass band (?) holding forth from the roof of a horse car which was covered with advertisements setting forth the merits of the "New Grand Opera House" performances in Boston, aroused the inhabitants of Little's Block and Holyoke yesterday afternoon by its dulcet bugle-notes. In response to the cries of "More! more!" the band had just started out anew with great vigor when a pail of water from one of the windows above so disconcerted them that they retreated in confusion, and the quavering note of the horns died away in the distance, much to the relief of every...
...celebration of the birth day of Ithaca as a city was the occasion of a scene resembling a Parisian affray between the students and townsmen. A number of Cornell men decided to blockade the street until a horse car driver should apologize for insulting a student. Accordingly, they stretched a rope across the street and piled boxes on the track faster than they could be removed. The mayor and several alderman appeared on the scene and tried unsuccessfully to quell the disturbance. Finally the "townies" obtained some hose, and fastening it to a fire plug, turned the water...
FRESHMAN LACROSSE.- The following men will be at the car station in Harvard Square at 4.20: Amory, Tudor, Huntress, Washburn, Davis, Everett, Lowell, Hall, Bigelow, Jones, Morton...
...freshmen play Andover this afternoon and the Freshman Glee Club give a concert there in the evening. A special car leaves after the entertainment and a general good time is expected. Return trip 70 cents...
HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB.- The team competition will be held at Watertown today. Competitors will come prepared to shoot at 50 birds. Scores made in this competition will count towards the aggregate for the general excellence cup. Car leaves...