Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English writer states that Washington's "oak," Cambridge, is so called because "the father of his country signed the Declaration of Independence under...
...Fitz John Porter will be in Washington this week to present his claims for re-instatement to the army...
Henry James, who is now one of the lions of Washington society, has a number of stories told at his expense. Here is the latest: He asked a clever young lady if there was not a river near Washington called the Potomac. "Oh, yes," said she, "and I should think you would know all about it, because there is a place on it called Mount Vernon, where a man named Washington lived. You are sure to have heard of him, you know, because his father was an Englishman...
...Soteldo, former editor of the Washington Republican, entered the office of that paper, and during a scuffle with Clarence Barton, the news editor, four pistol shots were exchanged. Barton was shot twice, not fatally, while Soteldo will live but a few hours...
...organization of the alumni of Bowdoin College living in Washington has been effected, with Commodore Horatio Bridge, U. S. N., of Bowdoin's famous class of 1825, as president. The association will have its first banquet on Feb. 16, at which President J. L. Chamberlain has promised to be present...