“A runaway’s den was discovered on Sunday, near the Washington Spring, in a little patch of woods, where it had been for several months so artfully concealed under ground, that it was detected only by accident, though in sight of two or three houses, and near the road and fields wh...
“I won’t leave the room,” said he, coming forward with the heated iron in his hand, and smoothing it on the brown paper with all the dexterity of a professor (for the fact is, Mr. W. every morning curled his own immense whiskers with the greatest skill and care)–“I won’t ...
…during Prohibition distillers were allowed to keep stocks of whiskies produced before the 18th Amendment went into force…some of these were distributed through pharmacies during Prohibition for “medicinal purposes”…what was left over was sold after repeal, a stock of “pre-prohibition casks” t...
The conditions that they offered were highly favorable; the garrison was allowed to march away with all their possessions and with the honors of war, while the brethren were to be paid for the lands and houses that were left behind, which latter were mere cabins and amounted to scarcely anyt...
And with the brown and verdant leaves of vine, We have filled your hair divine; From the cupped hollow of your delicious bosom We have drunk wine, Bacehante, purple wine. About us now the night Grows mystical with gleams and shadows cast ...
Brown (who was a Statler) tell of being in the fort when twelve years old and who said that this was the spot where it stood. It was but a short distance below Brown’s mills.” It would thus appear that it is properly located in Monongalia county, West Virginia. William served as ...
According to the doctor who examined him he had brown eyes, dark hair, a dark complexion, five foot two inches tall with a 32-inch expanded girth. He was considered to be too small to be a soldier and the medical officer wrote "passed as bugler" on his papers. Stephenson received ...
Then also the grass, the green grass that you see when you look at Central Park now was pretty much brown because there had been so many large gatherings in Central Park, it stamped out the grass almost completely. So that it was really not what it had set out to be and for I don...
I learned that Howard had graduated from Brown University and was exercised by left-wing activity there, by the faculty, the administration and students. This made him especially interested in what I had to say about my alma mater. My book, "God and Man at Yale," was published in mid-...
Ramsey, James A. Brown, William Bell, and A. B. Rock. The Sabbath school has about one hundred scholars, with James A. Brown superintendent. THE FAIR HAVEN CHURCH. As soon as that portion of the Hopewell congregati0n living in the vicinity of Fair Haven had been stricken off, the pet...