Word: homeless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Christian morality protests against such a distribution of land as is permitted in England, where millions of acres are shut up in parks, while hundreds of her poor are hungry and homeless...
...Franciscans found out. The fire of May 4, 1851, destroyed $7,000,000 worth of property, and was called the great fire. For lack of water the engines stood by as silent evidence of the city's official disapproval of fires. Thousands of people were left homeless. In 1851 and 1856 were formed the two famous vigilance committees. The committee of 1856 was highly organized. The committee of '51 had something of the form of an outburst of popular feeling. In closing, the lecturer said he could not help drawing a lesson from this early history of California, a lesson...
...crisis in the foreign floods has not yet been reached, and the distress is hourly increasing. Thousands of people are homeless, and reports of fresh inundations are being received. More dikes and embankments have broken at various points, the inhabitants seeking places of safety as best they...
Twenty frame dwellings on Brown and Ravine streets, Cincinnati, were burned yesterday forenoon. One child was burned to death. Twenty-five families are homeless, and all their effects are ashes. Loss...
...Vienna special says: Further intelligence from Balta gives the details of the anti-Jewish riots there on the 11th inst. The town was destroyed and 6000 families are homeless, and children and adults are dying from starvation...