Word: sons
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Charles Dickens gives a reading tonight in Tremont Temple, Boston. This is his last appearance here. He will read from Dombey and Son and Bob Sawyer's Party...
...HOWELLS, Secretary.LOST.- A horn-handled pen-knife having three blades, made by Wostenholm and Son. Finder will confer a favor by leaving the knife at 8 Hollis...
...treated in detail the causes which forced President Grevy to resign. President Grevy is a man who has rendered great service to the French nation, and is consequently highly respected. His resignation was called for only as a measure of last resort to preserve the country from anarchy. His son-in-law, M. Wilson, was discovered to have used his influence to enrich himself by corrupt practices, and this discovery, taken with the recent attempted sales of decorations, made the people clamorous for his punishment as an example. President Grevy refused to abandon his son-in law, and a hostile...
...page was written "I think I must be crazy." These were the only words which could be found having a direct bearing on the cause of his death. The young man's parents, who live in New York, were at once notified of their son's suicide...
...quarrels. If any man doubts that, let him come here and read the story of Harvard's childhood. It took two hundred years to outgrow it. It makes a curious record, this story of the Puritan popes who wanted to be president, or wanted a professorship for self or son, or wanted a certain policy pursued, a course of study introduced, or a certain theology adopted. Affairs now move with an amazing absence of friction. Personal relations are charmingly free from constraint. We can have all courses of study desired, and the thelogies are welcome...