ON THIS DAY IN 1845 , the Brooklyn Daily Eagle reported, “The population of the city of Washington in 1840 was 23,363; by the census recently taken it has increased to 30,000.”

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ON THIS DAY IN 1885 , the Eagle reprinted the following item from the London Truth: “How few lawn tennis players know who originated the game and where the first game was played? This excellent pastime has now been in existence for ten years, and it has probably been a greater source of amusement than anything of the kind ever invented. The originator and inventor was Major Walter Wingfield, of her Majesty’s Body Guard, who in 1874 wrote a little book, compiled a set of rules and coined the outlandish name ‘Sphairistike.’ The first game ever played was in 1874, at Colonel Naylor Leyland’s house in Denbighshi

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