Word: streamers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...heights for the purpose of making a demonstration, and upon Miss Ward's appearance they unrolled their banners of homage, in the shape of the black velvet flag with skull and crossbones of the "meds.," the crimson and gold ensign of the embryo "surveyors and engineers" and a long streamer with "Au Revoir" inscribed upon it. 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...