Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Saunders of Chicago, president of the cattle commission, is in Washington for the purpose of consulting with Assistant-Secretary of the Treasury French with reference to some proposed quarantine stations along the seaboard...
...Chicago Harvard Club has over 140 members...
...membership and financial management, is the Harvard Reading Room. The reading room is in lower Massachusetts, and the papers and periodicals taken by the society last year included the following : Dailies - New York Times and Herald (with Sunday edition), the Boston Herald (with Sunday edition), Advertiser and Post, the Chicago Tribune, the Springfield Republican and New York Graphic; weeklies - Harpers', Frank Leslie's, Puck, The Nation, London Graphic, London Illustrated News, Louisville Courier-Journal, Spirit of the Times, Vicksburg Herald, Charleston News and Courier. The management proceeds on a strictly cash basis, no paper being subscribed to until...
Some of the residents of Pullman, the model city founded by the Pullman Car Company near Chicago, have organized an Athletic Club and Rowing Association, and will hold their first field meeting the latter part of the month. An island has been constructed near the town in Lake Calumet and upon it has been built a fine boat-house and an excellent running track, with the usual accommodations. Several shells and barges have been purchased of Waters of Troy, and regattas will be held in the spring...
...article on protoplasm in the August number of the Chicago Scientific Journal was written by L. W. Kendall...