Word: orangeman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Saturday last, as John the Orangeman was coming through Church street, a horse standing in front of Blake's stable became frightened at the crimson and white cart. Blake, the proprietor of the livery stable, rushed out, put the horse in a place of safety, and then rushed John and his cart across the street, overturning them and injuring John in the leg and chest. John's wrath was up, so he hurried his old legs towards the police station, where he entered a formal complaint of assault and battery against Blake. On Tuesday, Messrs. Merriam and Hobbs...
Photograph lists were sent yesterday from Pach's Studio to all members of senior class. This is a catalogue of all the photographs of class-mates and college personages and views which a senior would be likely to purchase, down to John the orangeman and Ko Kum Hua's children. According to Pach's estimate the present senior class numbers 240. The class has lost 46 members since its entrance...
...grinding out its annual grist of A. B.'s. The clang of the prayer bell, followed by the rush of tardy footsteps over the crunching gravel, reminds us that prayers, like the poor, "we have always with us." The genial face of John, that unique example of Catholic "Orangeman:" the thought-furrowed brow of General Pratt: the "eggs and toast" of the Holly Tree: and the nocturnal journeys to that Paradise whence Adam has not yet been expelled, and at whose gates no flaming sword checks the wanderer, save, it may be, that metaphorical cutlass, the "11 o'clock...