Word: dam
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sale.- The very handsome thoroughbred Kentucky saddle horse "Craftsman;" sire "Felloweraft," the great four mile runner; dam, "Dixie." Weights about 950 lbs., age 5 years, color dark bay. Is a very fast run and a fine jumper. Also goes very well in harness. Warranted perfectly sound and quiet in every way. Price $600 Can be seen at private stable, corner Walnut avenue and Elmore street, Roxbury...
...Sale-The very handsome thoroughbred Kentucky saddle horse "Craftsman"; sire, "Fellowcraft," the great four-mile runner; dam, "Dixie." Weighs about 950 lbs., age 5 years, color dark bay. Is a very fast runner and a fine jumper. Also goes very well in harness. Warranted perfectly sound and quiet in every way. Can be seen at private stable, corner Walnut Ave. and Elmore street, Roxbury...
...band of music on board, hugging the shore and taking her time. It was very cold, a stiff breeze blowing straight up the course, and making the water lumpy, and for a little while it seemed to grow worse instead of mending. At the starting place the mill-dam was thronged with buggies loaded with spectators, which set off Bostonward the moment the race started. The wait at the bridge was exceedingly tedious, the cold wind dampening the ardor of the most excited...
...this and in the next race which occurred at Springfield in 1855. The following year, after the "Oneida" had done Harvard good service both as a pleasure and a racing boat, the old eight-oared barge was sold to Dartmouth where she was shortly after washed over a dam and lost. A picture of her may be still seen in the Trophy room...
...CRIMSON. - I saw the other day in the CRIMSON a stanza of an old ballad, about which it may interest your readers to know more. It was composed by Jabez Allen of Stoneham. This Allen was a hard character generally, who took a particular delight in pulling down the dam which flowed Spot Pond meadows, owned by one Timothy Sprague. On one occasion while he was at his usual sport, Sprague saw him, and ordered him to desist, whereupon he wounded Sprague with a charge of buckshot. Either for this or for some other escapade, he was sentenced...