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【That was Central Standard Time. The qualification is significant. A century earlier, on April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln had died in the Tenth Street Washington house of William Peterson, a tailor, at 7:20 A.M., and though Eastern Standard Time as it is now understood was nearly four years old, no one observed the distinction. It would have been irrelevant. Men elsewhere lived in separate worlds then. Time and space had genuine meaning. By the time distant communities learned of the assassination and grasped its implications, local conditions and individual circumstances had altered, and they viewed the President's death with perspectives quite different from those of Washingtonians.】

didn't Lincoln died in Ford's Theatre? who is the Tenth Street Washington house of William Peterson, a tailor?!

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I don't understand this
【That was Central Standard Time. The qualification is significant. A century earlier, on April 15, 1865, Abraham Lincoln had died in the Tenth Street Washington house of William Peterson, a tailor, at 7:20 A.M., and though Eastern Standard Time as it is now understood was nearly four years old, no one observed the distinction. It would have been irrelevant. Men elsewhere lived in separate worlds then. Time and space had genuine meaning. By the time distant communities learned of the assassination and grasped its implications, local conditions and individual circumstances had altered, and they viewed the President's death with perspectives quite different from those of Washingtonians.】

didn't Lincoln died in  Ford's Theatre? who is the Tenth Street Washington house of William Peterson, a tailor?!

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After Lincoln was mortally wounded at Ford's Theatre, the doctors attending him had him carried out into the street, where boarder Henry Safford, standing in the open doorway of his rooming house, gestured for them to bring the president inside. So Lincoln died in the home of William Petersen, a German-born tailor. Since the house had more rooms than the family required, he rented his extra rooms. The bedroom to which Lincoln was taken and eventually died was occupied by William T. Clark, a clerk at the Quartermaster General's Office and formerly a soldier of Co. D, 13th Mass. Infantry.

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"Tenth Street Washington house of William Peterson, a tailor"

This is using an older form of English. It means that in Washington (D.C.), on Tenth Street, the house of William Peterson who was a tailor. Think of it as "William Peterson, who has a house on Tenth Street in Washington"

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Lincoln was shot in Ford's Theatre, but he didn't die immediately. He was taken to William Peterson's house, where he died.

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