Word: america
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Question: "Resolved, That it is for the interest of the United States to subsidize steamship lines to Central and South America...
...speaker said that the railroad systems of America were fast assuming gigantic proportions and it is of the highest importance that they should be conducted on economic principles. Mr. Abbot denied the justice of universal suffrage as applied to voting of stockholders and deprecated the prevailing tactics, thoroughly gambling tactics, of foroing up the price of shares of railroads in order to buy up the votes which represent the control of the railroads. As an example of this scheming, Mr. Abbot instanced the great Oregon Trans-continental fight of last...
...members of the Historical society and a few guests were entertained at the Peabody museum last evening by professor and Mrs. F. W. Putnam. Professor Putnam made a very interesting address on the evidences of the prehistoric inhabitants of America, illustrating his remarks with skulls, pottery and shell etchings of the giacial and immediately subsequent periods. The speaker said that the latest investigations go to show that the Indians are not a prehistoric race, but are the result of a mixture of two or probably three antecedent types...
When Mr. Sumner returned to America he gave the wig to the Law school and at the time asked Judge Storey to have it put in a case and preserved. But for some reason this care does not seem to have been taken. It was then kept for many years in the old Law school building (now the store of the Co-operative Society) but at length its associations seem to have been entirely forgotten. Mr. George S. Hale says he once found it here and used it at some private theatricals in Boston but was ignorant that...
HISTORICAL SOCIETY.- Meeting this evening at the Peabody Museum at 8 o'clock. Professor F. W. Putnam will speak on "The Prehistoric Peoples of America...