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id: 29152
author: Unknown
title: Fifty Glimpses of Washington and Its Neighborhood
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  Northwest corner Connecticut Avenue and N Street, N. W.] [Illustration: THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT--Fifteenth Street, N. W., from Pennsylvania Avenue to G Street.]


id: 36082
author: Klapthor, Margaret Brown
title: White House China of the Lincoln Administration in the Museum of History and Technology
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summary:
  In the collections of the Smithsonian's Museum of History and Technology are the following pieces of the royal-purple set of Lincoln china: Plate and 2-handled custard cup. Indeed several different pieces of White House china have been brought to our attention with family legends that they were purchased at the World's Fair.


id: 13986
author: Cushing, Caleb
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title:
  Speech of Mr. Cushing, of Massachusetts, on the Right of Petition, as Connected with Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia. In The House Of Representatives, January 25, 1836.

summary:
  Within less than one year after the adoption of the Constitution, there came to Congress petitions, chiefly from New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, and Virginia, and especially from the Society of Friends, praying Congress to suppress the slave trade, and to interpose, in various ways, within the limits of the several States, in the melioration of the condition of the colored population of the South. At a very early period of the session, a gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. HAMMOND) met such petitions with the motion that they be not received.


id: 5820
author: Warner, Charles Dudley
title: The Gilded Age, Part 3.
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summary:
  Mr. Harry Brierly drew his pay as an engineer while he was living at the City Hotel in Hawkeye. When the young gentlemen were on their way back to the hotel, Mr. Philip, who was not in very good humor, broke out, What the deuce, Harry, did you go on in that style to the Montagues for? Go on? cried Harry.


id: 5823
author: Warner, Charles Dudley
title: The Gilded Age, Part 6.
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flesch: 79
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summary:
  She needn't be looking down, he thought, for she was ever so much shorter than tall Philip. Philip left the capitol and walked up Pennsylvania Avenue in company with Senator Dilworthy.


id: 5822
author: Warner, Charles Dudley
title: The Gilded Age, Part 5.
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flesch: 82
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summary:
  Mr. Trollop's Great Speech--which speech was written and composed by Miss Laura Hawkins under a secret understanding for one hundred dollars--and the money has not been paid.' But Mr. Washington Hawkins (one of the heirs) objected.


id: 5824
author: Twain, Mark
title: The Gilded Age, Part 7.
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flesch: 79
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summary:
  The University was on file for its third reading this day, and to-morrow Washington would be a millionaire and Sellers no longer, impecunious but this day, also, or at farthest the next, the jury in Laura's Case would come to a decision of some kind or other--they would find her guilty, Washington secretly feared, and then the care and the trouble would all come back again, and these would be wearing months of besieging judges for new trials; on this day, also, the re-election of Mr. Dilworthy to the Senate would take place. The next telegram was from Mr. Dilworthy: I have not only brought over the Great Invincible, but through him a dozen more of the opposition.


id: 5819
author: Twain, Mark
title: The Gilded Age, Part 2.
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  If he were good enough he would attach himself to that company of young men in the Theological Seminary, who were seeing New York life in preparation for the ministry. We'll buy the lands, explained he, on long time, backed by the notes of good men; and then mortgage them for money enough to get the road well on.


id: 5821
author: Warner, Charles Dudley
title: The Gilded Age, Part 4.
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flesch: 79
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summary:
  Said he: Have you ever read this, ma'm? There's your official salaries--you can't get good men for nothing.


id: 28197
author: Unknown
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title:
  The Trial of Reuben Crandall, M.D. Charged with Publishing and Circulating Seditious and Incendiary Papers, &c. in the District of Columbia, with the Intent of Exciting Servile Insurrection. Carefully Reported, and Compiled from the Written Statements of the Court and the Counsel.

summary:
  Why does not this _persecuted_ man bring his action for false imprisonment? He may then give evidence that a certain number of papers or pamphlets were found in the possession of the defendant, together with the copies of the libels charged, and of the publication of which in this District, he shall have given evidence; but he will not be permitted to give in evidence to the jury the contents of any of the papers other than those charged as libels in this indictment, unless such other papers have relation to the libels charged in the indictment, and would not in themselves be substantive ground of prosecution.


id: 5818
author: Twain, Mark
title: The Gilded Age, Part 1.
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flesch: 81
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summary:
  There can't be two! We gone dis time--we done gone dis time, sho'! Uncle Dan'l(colored,) aged 40; his wife, aunt Jinny, aged 30, Young Miss Emily Hawkins, Young Mars Washington Hawkins and Young Mars Clay, the new member of the family, ranged themselves on a log, after supper, and contemplated the marvelous river and discussed it.


id: 55719
author: Phillips, David Graham
title: The Social Secretary
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sentence: 1785
flesch: 87
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summary:
  Mrs. Burke had thirty-one invitations to-day, eleven of them for her and Mr. Burke. You know Mrs. Burke is very common and ignorant.


id: 10401
author: Drayton, Daniel
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title:
  Personal Memoir of Daniel Drayton, for Four Years and Four Months a Prisoner (for Charity's Sake) in Washington Jail Including a Narrative of the Voyage and Capture of the Schooner Pearl

summary:
  It was desired to make us out guilty of a penitentiary offence at the least; and for that purpose recourse was had to an old, forgotten act of Maryland, passed in the year 1737, the fourth section of which provided That any person or persons who, after the said tenth day of September [1737], shall steal any ship, sloop, or other vessel whatsoever, out of any place within the body of any county within this province, of seventeen feet or upwards by the keel, and shall carry the same ten miles or upwards from the place whence it shall be stolen, _or who shall steal any negro or other slave_, or who shall counsel, hire, aid, abet, or command any person or persons to commit the said offences, or who shall be accessories to the said offences, and shall be thereof legally convicted as aforesaid, or outlawed, or who shall obstinately or of malice stand mute, or peremptorily challenge above twenty, shall suffer death as a felon, or felons, and be excluded the benefit of the clergy. It provided That any person or persons who shall hereafter be convicted of giving a pass to any slave, or person held to service, or shall be found to assist, by advice, donation or loan, or otherwise, the transporting of any slave or any person held to service, from this state, or by any other unlawful means depriving a master or owner of the service of his slave or person held to service, for every such offence the party aggrieved shall recover damages in an action on the case, against such offender or offenders, and such offender or offenders shall also be liable, upon indictment, and conviction upon verdict, confession or otherwise, in this state, in any county court where such offence shall happen, to be fined a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, at the discretion of the court, one-half to the use of the master or owner of such slave, the other half to the county school, if there be any; if there be no such school, to the use of the county.


id: 5617
author: Hope, Laura Lee
title: The Bobbsey Twins in Washington
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summary:
  This isn't like Blueberry Island, sitting still on a porch! You haven't sat still more than three minutes, Bert Bobbsey! Don't be so scared, Bert Bobbsey, answered his sister.


id: 3812
author: Gilbert, Clinton W. (Clinton Wallace)
title: The Mirrors of Washington
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summary:
  Mr. Wilson could never get Mr. Lodge wholly out of his mind in the last two years of his Presidency, a disability which prevented him from looking quite calmly and sanely at public questions. If Mr. Wilson would ask for the reelection of those who had been loyal, of whatever party, listing the offenders, of both parties, including Mr. Lodge if he must, Mr. McCormick believed that the impression on the country would be favorable and thus a Democratic Congress might be elected.


id: 6853
author: Emerson, Alice B.
title: Betty Gordon in Washington; Or, Strange Adventures in a Great City
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  Betty saw Bob spring to his aid, saw Esther sink in a miserable little white heap to the floor, Bobby put her hands up to her eyes as if to shut out the light, and Louise mechanically try to defend herself from the strangle hold of the woman who stood next to her. One thing, Betty girl, brushing up against the Peabodys has given you a practical fund of self-reliance.


id: 12559
author: Crane, Laura Dent
title: The Automobile Girls at Washington; Or, Checkmating the Plots of Foreign Spies
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sentence: 3832
flesch: 87
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summary:
  He told me Harriet Hamlin was not at home and that I had better not come here this afternoon. Harriet Hamlin is dreadfully proud, and she is not a bit sympathetic.


id: 32556
author: Raymond, Evelyn
title: Dorothy's Tour
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summary:
  This, remarked Mr. Ludlow, turning to Dorothy, is Miss Dorothy Calvert, and Dorothy, this is my ward, Miss Ruth Boothington. This is Miss Dorothy Calvert, of whom you have often heard me speak, and her friend, Miss Babcock.


id: 63223
author: Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
title: The Man Inside
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summary:
  Then how does it happen that I saw Miss Eleanor Thornton descending in one of the elevators when the Secretary and I were on our way to this office to see you? Oh, Miss Eleanor told me that she was going to the library to look up the records of some of her ancestors, as she wishes to join the Colonial Dames. He was drowsily conscious of the clock striking; then his last thought was of Eleanor Thornton--beautiful Eleanor Thornton--strange that they should meet again; why, he had actually run away from her in Paris--a few minutes more and he was sound asleep.


id: 22113
author: Jackson, Gabrielle E. (Gabrielle Emilie)
title: Peggy Stewart at School
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  See 22113-h.htm or 22113-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/1/1/22113/22113-h/22113-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/2/2/1/1/22113/22113-h.zip) PEGGY STEWART AT SCHOOL by GABRIELLE E. JACKSON Author of Peggy Stewart at Home, Silver Heels, Three Graces Series, Capt. Polly Series, etc. But yonder comin' our yo'ng mistiss, he concluded as a clear, sweet voice was heard singing just beyond the windows, and quick decisive footsteps came across the broad piazza, and Peggy Stewart, only daughter and heiress of beautiful Severndale, entered the room.


id: 36188
author: DeWitt, David Miller
title: The Judicial Murder of Mary E. Surratt
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flesch: 54
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summary:
  Thereupon two proclamations were issued by President Johnson. John A. Bingham, of Ohio--long a Representative in Congress, then for a short interval a Military Judge-Advocate, now a Representative in Congress again, and to become in the strange vicissitudes of the near future, one of the managers of the impeachment of President Johnson, whom he now cannot praise too highly.


id: 9812
author: Lincoln, Natalie Sumner
title: I Spy
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flesch: 81
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summary:
  What possessed Kathleen Whitney? As he threw the burnt match to the pavement he was attracted by a large photograph of Kathleen Whitney in the window.


id: 32678
author: Otis, James
title: Commodore Barney's Young Spies A Boy's Story of the Burning of the City of Washington
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  Besides being an expert fisherman, old Darius was an artist at story-telling, and there was hardly an evening during the first two months he was with us, when we did not sit in the cuddy long after we should have been asleep, listening to the old man's yarns. It seems certain we can't meet the enemy here, unless more men are sent, an', as I take it, we shall march hither an' yon till we come to the fight fit for nothin' but to turn in.


id: 6091
author: Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn
title: Senator North
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summary:
  _Part II_ _Senator North, Miss Betty Madison, and several other Characters in this History go in search of a Mountain Lake and find an Ocean. Betty felt happy and elated, and blew a kiss to the beauty about her.


id: 28384
author: Gouverneur, Marian
title: As I Remember Recollections of American Society during the Nineteenth Century
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  Mrs. John William, 78. Julia, 78. Schomberg, Emily, 286. Schroeder, Francis, 275. Mrs. Francis, 275. Seaton, 275. Mrs. John, 214, 282. John Quincy, 31, 32, 148, 149, 199, 200, 206, 214, 279, 280, 282.


id: 20290
author: Poore, Benjamin Perley
title: Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis
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  I mean Mr. President of the Senate and would-be President of the United States, which God in His infinite mercy avert_, and then went on in his usual strain of calumny and abuse. Going to the White House the next morning, he said to General Jackson, Do you know who is the Collector of Customs at Salem, Mr. President, whom you are about to remove?


