Word: bank
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...final utility. The article is interesting, aside from the attractive way in which it is written, as showing the attitude of deep thinkers on economics. Professor Dunbar has an extremely interesting and instructive article upon the economic plans of Alexander Hamilton, the refunding of the Revolutionary debt, the National Bank system, and the sinking fund. Mr. Stuart Wood follows with a new view of the theory of wages. The most interesting paper of the number is Mr. Power's article on Victoria and New South Wales, the one a protectionist and the other a free trade colony. The number...
...case of water, any member of the pack may go round, but must take up the scent on the opposite bank...
...pressure cylinder broke, knocking off the cylinder head and smashing things generally. This necessitated taking the launch to the dry-dock for repairs. In the evening the engineer started with her for the lower basin, but she became unmanageable and went aground on a mud bank off the Crescent Boat Club house. The skid on the keel stuck in the mud and prevented the tide from floating the launch. She soon began to fill and the engineer was compelled to swim ashore. Efforts were made to get the launch afloat yesterday, but were unsuccessful. A lighter of the Boston Towing...
...situated upon the new Charles River embankment. The casino, by the stipulation, was to be amply provided with plain and medicinal baths, and in addition to these were to be a gymnasium, a bowling alley, a tennis court, a reading room, a billiard room and cafe. On the bank of the river there was the be a boat house, and two or three parilions. The grounds were to be laid out in an attractive a way as possible...
...endowment fund of Harvard College will receive a large addition by the will of the late J. Sumner Wheeler of Framingham, Mass. Mr. Wheeler graduated at Harvard in the class of 1826, and at the time of his death was president of the Framingham National Bank. The amount of the bequest will be $25,000 if the entire estate amounts to $250,000, and $50,000 if the whole estate is $300,000. The use of the income is not restricted by the will, but is left to the discretion of the president and fellows, though by a codicil added...