Word: street drug
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Dates: during 1881-1881
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Malaria.Fitz Clarence arrived at Princeton with a light heart and thirteen trunks. Not even the sight of several dozen coffins piled up at the station awaiting shipment could dampen his enthusiasm. He walked briskly up the principal street, and scanned with wonder the long lines of undertakers' shops and brilliant drug-stores that met his eye on every side. A forest of doctors' signs shaded the street and kept off the heat of the sun, while the air was redolent with the pungent odors of the billowy canal...
...figures steal stealthily along the west side of Acropolis Avenue and turn into Marathon Street. On returning from the other end of his beat and reaching Marathon Street, corner of Omicron, he perceived, to his surprise, that nearly all the lamps in the street were extinguished, and on his stopping for a moment to view the scene he heard a crash close behind him, and saw the only remaining lamp on Marathon Street - the one in front of Miltiades and Son's drug-store - broken and extinguished. Mr. O'Phlynn hastened at once in the opposite direction to ascertain...