Word: pullman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Haskell, of Norwich. The clubs have severed their connection with the university glee club, and next year will start out on an independent basis. They have already made arrangements for a Christmas trip, when they will visit several southern cities. The trip will be made in a special Pullman car, now in progress of construction for them. The car will be named the "Apollo" and will be fitted up in Yale blue. The clubs have already received letters from several of the cities they intend to visit assuring them of a warm reception...
Though the men were thoroughly exhausted they were around before day-light Thursday and were carried to the station of the Ohio and Mississippi railroad to take the train for St. Louis. One of the most magnificent of Pullman cars was provided for the party. As the train glided over the states of Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, the majority of the men endeavored to make up for lost time by taking prolonged naps. The only rival sleep found was whist...
...members of the Glee and Banjo Clubs went to Fall River yesterday afternoon by special horse car on the West End Railway and by Pullman car on the Old Colony road. A concert was given in Music Hall before a large audience in which were many old Harvard men. After the concert, the clubs became the guests of the Harvard Club of Fall River and were tendered a reception. The men will return to Cambridge this morning...
...efforts. Several of them are ready to go back into the field and swing the scythe or take care of horses and cattle. One is prepared by past experience to act as fireman on a locomotive, or conductor on a horse car. Another has been a conductor on a Pullman car and would like to be again, and a third wishes to be a clerk on a steamboat. At least a dozen are ready to be hotel clerks, or even waiters if no better opening offers. Among the many is one skilled in wood carving and quick in using...
PARK THEATRE. - Mestayer's Tourists in "The Pullman Palace Car." Performance...