Word: meerschaum
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Leavitt and Peirce's store was broken into Sunday night and seventy-five dollars' worth of meerschaum pipes were stolen. The thief has been arrested...
...trains to New York-so we learn from the New York Times-was a crowd of girls from some college or boarding school near Boston. They had two cars exclusively to themselves. Some of them were smoking. Dainty cigarette holders, says our informant, abounded. Two of the holders were meerschaum, and of a light brown color that showed they had seen use. The girls, furthermore, wore society pins, and had the peculiar appearance that characterizes college boys, all except, of course, the Br-.Shades of Dr. Dix defend us! Certainly this is going too far. The sanctity of our most...
...series of thefts that had been endured through a long period of time at Yale without attracting any particular attention was capped recently by the sleasing of two meerschaum pipes, whereupon the students aroused themselves, and the thief was at once caught. There are many wrongs which a college community patiently endures, but the abstraction of its meershaum pipes is not one of these. -[Cornell...
...LOST-A meerschaum pipe; curved stem; partly colored; black leather case with common plush lining. The finder will confer a favor by leaving the same with Leavitt and Pierce...
...LOST-A meerschaum pipe; curved stem; partly colored; black leather case with common plush lining. The finder will confer a favor by leaving the same with Leavitt and Pierce...