Word: cincinnatis
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...flood at Cincinnati and other Western cities continues unabated. At the former city the destruction of property is immense and there is much suffering among the poorer classes...
Another great flood is inundating the Ohio valley. Lawrenceburg, Ind., is entirely submerged, and the people are cut off from all communication with other places. Ten miles of the water front of Cincinnati is under water; the gas supply has been cut off, and the greatest consternation prevails...
Auxiliary Associations have been established in Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del., Washington, D. C., Cincinnati, Cleveland, Chicago, San Francisco, Baltimore, Utica, and other places, and, if preferred, contributions may be forwarded through the treasurer of any one of these associations. Circulars of information will be sent to any who apply for them...
...invitation from the Harvard Club of Chicago to visit that city and sing at the annual reunion of the club, during the spring recess. It is not known yet whether the club will accept. It is rumored that they will also be invited by the Harvard Club of Cincinnati to visit that city at the same time...
...only way to tell them apart was to send one to Harvard and one to Yale. Then one came back a gentleman and one a Connecticut rough.' For native and ingenuous modesty this has its only parallel in the historic description by the Kentuckian of the guests at a Cincinnati dinner party which he had attended: 'There were present, sir, one Kentucky gentleman, whom you know, sir; one Huguenot from the Old South State; a Virginian - Poindexter stock; one Wolverine, two Buckeyes, and a Yankee son-of-a-peddlar from Massachusetts...