>>EXCERPT ONE | FOGGY BOTTOM AKA “THE SWAMP | One of D.C.’s oldest neighborhoods is firmly branded with the curious nickname, which was spawned from smoke and fog that hovered over the industries once housed on the area’s low, swampy land. The name “Foggy Bottom” was used before 1877, which is when the Washington Post was founded and its archives begin. Foggy Bottom was occasionally grouped with other neighborhoods with vivid names, known as “hiding places of lawbreakers,” including Bloodfield, Murder Bay and The Slashes. >>EXCERPT 2. | HAWAII DECLARES NEUTRALITY IN THE CIVIL WAR | Be it known to all whom it may concern, that we, Kamehameha IV, King of the Hawaiian Islands, having been officially notified that hostilities are now unhappily pending between the government of the United States and certain States thereof styling themselves “The Confederate States of America,” hereby proclaim our neutrality between said contending parties.
