Word: potomac
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Dates: during 1882-1882
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...work of reclaiming the Potomac flats has been commenced...
...Senate committee on commerce has added $1,000,000 for the reclamation of the Potomac flats to the river and harbor bill. The Senate bids fair to increase the total appropriation of the river and harbor bill to more than $20,000,000. The House will probably concur. The thirst for the surplus is by no means assuaged...
ORAL DISCUSSIONS.English VI. The question for today will be : "Resolved, That it was expedient to remove General McClellan from the command of the Army of the Potomac...
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...