Word: settlers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...thought best to send it to college to receive those finishing touches that a university course alone can bestow. So now I recline upon it with my back against a cushion, while I smoke a pipe and think of the many personal associations I have had with this old settler. If it had but a tongue as serviceable as its stout old legs, what a tale it could tell. To me, the first recollection that it brings is of my grandfather. How well I remember the tall, spare old gentleman, as he sat in one corner of it reading...
...They further, in response to some who, on a previous occasion, had taken them to task, hung out two gigantic prescriptions, in which a liberal quantity of honey and syrup were suggested as medicine for the Telegraph and Argus, and a wholesale dose of arsenic and strychnine as a settler for the Age. They held their saturnalia between the acts, and observed a respectful silence during the progress of the play. When the curtain was going up, order was called by a rap or two with a gigantic thigh bone welded by the leader of the party...
...fact, "rank with inexact science and unhistoric history." Respecting the law laid down by Carey that poor and high land is universally settled and cultivated first, Gen. Walker said this if true could readily be explained from the fact that the necessities of life demanded that the new settler should reap his crops as soon as possible, and this was most easy on shallow lands on hillsides, demanding no drainage...
...unveiling of the statute of John Bridge, the first settler of Cambridge, will take place on Tuesday next at 3 P. M. on Cambridge common, with exercises as follows: Prayer by Rev. Alexander McKenzie, D. D.; reading of the letter of presentation by George H. Howard, president of the common council; acceptance by Hon. James A. Fox, mayor; address by Col. T. W. Higginson; remarks by President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard College; benediction by Rev. Edward H. Hall of the First Baptist Church. Seats will be provided for a few persons about the statue, and should the weather...