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...giving away of a dam at Louisville, Ky., flooded a large part of the city with water, and the people living in the inundated district barely escaped with their lives...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. | 2/14/1883 | See Source »

...Union boat-house, where it took in the referee, Wm. S. Eaton, Jr. It then proceeded directly to the starting line. A new method of starting the the crews was adopted for the first time this year. A rope was stretched from the bank near the Mill-dam road to a point about the middle of the bridge. There were placed at equal distances along this rope boats, each kept in place by guy-ropes, from which the crews were started. This arrangement insured a perfectly fair start...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: '82 WINS. | 5/20/1882 | See Source »

...Dark Horse (by Chance, out of Spite - dam The Odds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

Conkling & Cameron's Third Term (out of Office, by General Consent - dam Rascality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

Maine's Plumed Knight (by Chance or Magnetism, out of Order - dam Extraordinary Boom) . . . 3 The rest distanced...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/18/1880 | See Source »

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