Word: washington
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...lecturer spoke as follows: Roughly speaking, the arid region extends from the 100th meridian to the Pacific ocean, between the 100th and the 105th lies the so called "debatable ground." an enormous piece of territory upon which agriculture is in some years profitable, in others, not. Washington Oregon, and the northern part of California are excluded from this rough outline. The total area is about 1.300,000 square miles, or 40 per cent. of the United States. The question is how to make this region profitable for agriculture...
...after Christmas the Princeton Glee and Banjo clubs will leave Philadelphia on their southern trip. They will give their first concer at Baltimore the same evening. They will give a concert at Washington Friday evening, after spending the day in the city. On Saturday evening their entertainment will be at Richmond, where they will remain over Sunday. On Monday night they will give a concert at Wilmington, N. C., and on Tuesday at Charleston. Still traveling southward, they will reach Augustain time for a concert on Wednesday, and Savannah, Thursday. On Friday, January 3, they will sail from Savannah...
...preparatory school discipline. The permission granted to give a concert in New York goes very little towards establishing the committee's wisdom in refusing the remainder of the petition, since it is difficult to see, how, on the arguments laid down, the line should be drawn against Baltimore and Washington, for example, and not against New York...
...these Williams won one championship and tied one and won five exhibition games. She has made three hundred and four points to her opponents' two hundred and thirteen. A notice is posted in University stating that an examination will shortly be held by the civil service commission in Washington, or in any other large city where the board has an office, to select two clerks for the geological survey, at a salary of $900 each. Some knowledge of geology is required...
...sale of tickets to Springfield on Saturday's special train was closed at Leavit and Pierce's at 12 o'clock yesterday. Tickets may be obtained at the B and A. R. R. station, or 232 Washington street today. After today only a limited number of tickets will be for sale so that those who have not obtained tickets by that time may be unable to buy them...