Word: postman
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...play throughout has considerable local color, great enthusiasm being aroused by the appearance on the stage of "Billy" the Harvard postman...
...Thoughts Suggested by Lowell's 'Cambridge Thirty Years Ago' " quotes some of Lowell's thoughts on old Cambridge and answers his complaint "that the picturesque old characters have disappeared" by asking if Old John, Billy the postman, Mrs. Belcher, and Mr. Foster are not filling the same niches of fame today that Lewis, and other beloved old worthies did in Lowell's days...
...effort is being made to elect Billy the Postman the winner of one of the large prizes offered by the Boston Globe. Boxes are to be placed at Memorial and Leavitt and Pierce's, where Harvard men can deposit the ballots to be found in every issue of the Globe...