Word: lantern
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...evening. Three of them were killing a cat. One of them held a lantern, another held the cat, and a third jammed a pistol into the cat's ear and fired, shooting the man in the hand who held the cat, and the one with the lantern was wounded in the arm. The cat left when it saw how matters stood and that ill feeling was being engendered...
...Class Day Committee ask the students to assist them in protecting lanterns from being stolen Class Day evening. The wanton destruction and heavy loss of lanterns in previous years has become so notorious that the Committee had difficulty in locating the contract for the illumination. To those who desire a lantern as a souvenir, lanterns will be sold at cost if they will leave their names with the Committee. It should be borne in mind that this is a matter upon which the success of future Class Days depends...