Word: fared
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...excursion tickets to Springfield last year were good only on the special trains so that anyone who wished to avoid the crowd, or to go up before hand, was compelled to pay full fare both ways. Now fully enough fellows take the regular trains to warrant some effort at securing better rates for them. There is little doubt but that the railroad can be induced to issue a round trip ticket, to be good perhaps from Friday until Tuesday, at much less than the regular fares. All that is needed is for someone to lay the matter before the railroad...
...variety is said to be greater than the regular bill of fare list at Memorial. The average price of board during the year has been less than $3.00 per week. During the past year the price of board has been reduced five times, or in all about 9 per cent...
...centre of the house was used as the dining room. As there were no chimneys, the roof was smoky and black. The chairs, which were very massive and heavy, were arranged around the walls of the room, and the table was set before them. Their bill of fare was also very simple, consisting mostly of cheese, bread, meat and wine. They were hearty eaters, but through the restraint of their out-door life and exercise they seldom drank to excess...
...Century bill-of-fare for March is varied enough to suit the most captious magazine reader. Unusually entertaining is the third installment of the famous Talleyrand Memoirs, containing, as it does, comments on the luxury and vice of Napoleon's court, which derive a peculiar flavor, coming, as they do, from the pen of Talley-rand...
...Monthly for February offers to the intellectually hungry an appetizing bill of fare and the different articles savor more of originality than did the contents of the January number...