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However, outside Manila, they possess a small house called Sampaloc, because it has many tamarind trees.
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Fifteen of the victims were taken to the Mary Chiles Hospital in Sampaloc, Manila.
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In the residential environs of the city many acres of ground have been covered with new houses; the once respectable quarter of Sampaloc [233] has lost its good name since it became the favourite haunt of Asiatic and white prostitutes who were not tolerated in Spanish times.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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Governor of San Pablo or Sampaloc in the name of the King of Spain was appointed by the soldier Montoya, and was called Bartolomé Maghayin; the second was Cristóbal Somangalit and the third was Bernabé Pindan, all of whom had adopted Christianity.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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About Sampaloc there is a little colony of Japanese shopkeepers, and another group of Japanese fishermen inhabits Tondo.
The Philippine Islands John Foreman
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They were the first missionaries in the districts of Sampaloc and Santa Ana, Manila, and in the towns of Meycauayan, Bocaue, Morong, Baraa, Pagsanjan, Santa
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913
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[12] The Franciscans now (1893) have charge of Sampaloc.
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Tordesillas was not at the time provincial of the Franciscan province, but was probably minister at Sampaloc, near Manila (Huerta, p. 504).
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The municipal physician of Sampaloc, Señor Xerez, states that he has frequently used this oil in Manila, as a purgative, and he agrees perfectly with Dr. O'Rocke as to its effect.
The Medicinal Plants of the Philippines Jerome Beers Thomas 1891
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(Sampaloc, 1788-1792); Zúñiga, _Historia de las islas Filipinos_
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