Word: junction
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Nine left by the Fall River boat on Thursday evening for Princeton, and reached Princeton Junction on Friday at 10 A. M., where they were most cordially received by the Princeton Nine and a large delegation from the college. The day was exceedingly unpropitious for base-ball, a high wind prevailing which blew directly in the face of the batsmen. Owing to afternoon recitations at Princeton, game was called at 12 o'clock, with Harvard at the bat. The game opened well for an exciting contest, as neither side scored in the first inning, notwithstanding Furman's base...
...gloves, Harvard will have to look out for her laurels on June 7th and 8th, The applause was very impartially given to both sides, and a single slight attempt to applaud one of Harvard's errors was drowned in a storm of hisses. The Nine were accompanied to Princeton Junction by a number of their Princeton friends, and were started on their homeward journey with an ovation of cheers and well wishes for the coming Yale game...
WHEN I got to Mulligan's Junction, Ga., on my trip South, I wanted to go on to Pelican Swamp, and I asked the old Yankee conductor of the Lightning Express when it would leave for that point. "Wal," he replied, chimerically, "if Bill gets the wood sawed and split for the ingine, and - let's see - to-morrow's the 1st of the month, that's washin' day, if Nancy, that 'ere old niggeress don't use up all the water, and if there should happen to be another feller or missis going your way, and if there...