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id: 42999
author: Drake, Samuel Adams
title: Old Boston Taverns and Tavern Clubs
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  1709-10 the heirs of Neale deed to John Borland house by the name of the Star, now occupied by Stephen North and Charles Salter. Hudson sold off parts of his estate and in 1674 he conveyed to John Wing house, buildings, etc., commonly called Castle Tavern.


id: 38152
author: Galt, Katherine Keene
title: The Girl Scouts Rally; or, Rosanna Wins
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  Once upon a time that gate had been kept locked and little Rosanna had been almost a prisoner among the flowers and trees that made the garden so lovely. I name and nominate Miss Rosanna Horton, and as her aids and assistants I name and nominate Miss Helen Culver and Miss Elise Hargrave.


id: 29203
author: Emerson, Alice B.
title: Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall; or, Solving the Campus Mystery
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  I hope you have had a joyful day, Miss Ruth, she said. How much was to happen to her before she saw the Red Mill again! CHAPTER II THE MAN WHO PLAYED THE HARP In the first volume of this series, entitled, Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill; Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret, is related how Ruth and Helen and Tom came to be such close friends.


id: 38030
author: Garis, Lilian
title: The Girl Scouts at Camp Comalong; Or, Peg of Tamarack Hills
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  Little girls they were, indeed; although each of them had earned a grammar grade certificate that opened to her the doors of High, yet the spirit of care-free little-girlishness was still happily theirs, and it was a matter of complete congeniality that bound them together, year after year, from Primary to Grammar, and now from Grammar to High. But you see, they are not little girls, and cannot always see the fun in good team work.


id: 40897
author: Hering, Henry Augustus
title: The Burglars' Club: A Romance in Twelve Chronicles
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  A spiral staircase at the east end of the house led to the observatory containing the powerful equatorial telescope through which, as opportunity offered, Mr. Meyer was wont to gaze thoughtfully at the satellites of Jupiter, the canals on Mars, and other eccentricities of the heavens. At the landing-stage he informed the man in charge that he had business with Mr. Meyer.


id: 28915
author: Butterworth, Hezekiah
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  Zigzag Journeys in Northern Lands; The Rhine to the Arctic; A Summer Trip of the Zigzag Club Through Holland, Germany, Denmark, Norway, and Sweden

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  While this has been in a great measure due to the presence of a group of great men around him,--notably of Bismarck and Von Moltke,--the emperor himself has had no small share in promoting the power and towering fortunes of Germany. The custom in old times, when a person died, was for some one to sit in the room and watch with the dead body in the night, as long as it remained in the house.


id: 41516
author: Timbs, John
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  Club Life of London, Vol. 2 (of 2) With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropolis During the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries

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  Some will have it, says Hatton, 1708, that it is called from being a _woody_ place before there were buildings here; but its being called Fullwood's Rents (as it is in deeds and leases), shows it to be the rents of one called Fullwood, the owner or builder thereof. After comparing it to other houses, the Pope's Head, the King's Arms, the Black Swan, and the Fountain, and declaring the Cock the best, it ends: 'Tis time to be gone, for the 'Change has struck one:


id: 41146
author: Timbs, John
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  Club Life of London, Vol. 1 (of 2) With Anecdotes of the Clubs, Coffee-Houses and Taverns of the Metropolis During the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries

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  Royal Society Club. the pleasure he took in frequenting the meetings of those social parties of his time, termed confraternities, where, according to a good old custom, a president was appointed; and he adds that the principal satisfaction he received from such entertainments, arose much less from the pleasures of the palate than from the opportunity thereby afforded him of enjoying excellent company and conversation.[1] The cognomen Club claims descent from the Anglo-Saxon; for Skinner derives it from _clifian, cleofian_ (our cleave), from the division of the reckoning among the guests around the table.


