Word: linens
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...which served him in his last years, and in his pockets he carried crumbs with which to feed birds, of which he was very fond. If he had anything to carry, were it a pound of sugar from the grocery, white grapes for his favorite chickens, or his clean linen, it was always wrapped in a blue and white checked handkerchief of huge dimensions...
...following the fortune of other clergymen, came to Massachusetts in the early period, he was probably a Puritan of their stamp, that is. not a dissenter. Puritan ministers of that day are represented in pictures as wearing a somewhat closely fitting cloak, covering a cassock, with a broad linen collar and a skull cap. No mistake could be made in regard to the garments covering the lower part of body...
...cloacae. The house is heated by means of a furnace, and there are also fireplaces in each large room. These fires are always kept ready to be lighted, so that at a moment's warning the house can be warmed and made ready for occupants. Special beds and linen are kept for use here, and, when the hospital is used, are never carried from the house, so that all danger from spread of the disease by this means is avoided. When a student is taken sick with contagious disease he is immediately taken to this hospital. To convey him there...
...Yale seniors have voted to send the Glee Club to give a concert at the Williamantic Linen Mills in recognition of the attention shown them at their visit last week...
...Yale faculty are going to be given "a chance to prove it." Prof. Sumner having made certain statements in regard to the low wages paid by the Willimantic Linen Company, the president of that company has placed a special train at the disposal of the Yale faculty to visit the mills and investigate the question...