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[US] Fireman’s Journal 16 Aug. 131/2: Mr. Tarbell [...] was, in his younger days, one of the ‘b’hoys’ you read about [...] He was a member of Frank Whitney’s famous crowd that made notorious old ‘Hero No. 6’ the terror of ‘Nigger Hill’.
at b’hoy, n.
[US] Fireman’s Journal 16 Aug. 131/2: Mr. Tarbell [...] was, in his younger days, one of the ‘b’hoys’ you read about [...] He was a member of Frank Whitney’s famous crowd that made notorious old ‘Hero No. 6’ the terror of ‘Nigger Hill.’.
at niggertown, n.
[US] Fireman’s Journal 25 Oct. 337/1: In the afternoon a game of baseball was played by a nine from the Easton Fire Department and the New York Fire Department nine [...] The game resulted in victory for the New York ‘smoke chewers’ by a score of twenty to five.
at smoke-eater (n.) under smoke, n.
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