Word: barrel
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There was a slight blaze in College House late Saturday night, which probably originated in a barrel of rubbish in the basement. It soon filled the halls with smoke, but was extinguished by a member of '84. Another warning...
...expected that the Western brewers will soon demand an advance of one dollar per barrel on beer...
...Green," and so when the Heraldic Bureau were asked to "find" his family escutcheon they suggested that he take the name of Verdantique. The coat-of-arms, by the way, is quite peculiar and characteristic - uncomfortably so, Miss Winnie thinks. There is a light-green barrel of petroleum surmounted by a bull which knowingly winks his right eye; one hoof is raised to the side of the nose for some unaccountable reason - probably wants to scratch it. The petition has evidently been carefully sealed in an envelope that seems to have been opened by some skeleton hand. The paper...
...large barrel factory owned by C. B. Brock & Co., in Jersey City, N. J., burned yesterday morning. Other buildings in the vicinity were burned and damaged, so that the loss amounts...
...barrel factory of Jaynes & Co., Cambridgeport, was entirely burned last night. Loss about $100,000. Fire destroyed the building once before...