Word: coaling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...more than enough money was raised among members of the association to support a general secretary, who could give more time to the work than a regular student. Possibly the newest feature is the work among the sailors in Boston and Charlestown. On Sunday several men go aboard the coal and timber vessels lying near by and talk plainly and frankly with the sailors who are, as a rule, unprejudiced and willing listeners and talkers. The effect of this work is twofold. Besides its effect on the sailors, there is a reflex influence on the men themselves. They find...
...crews, four in number, rowed in barges. The course was in front of the boat house, from the bend just below the coal wharf down to the bridge. It was a very short course but it seemed to use up the men pretty well...
...botany at the Botanic Garden was attended by seventeen last year, and is to be repeated this year. The courses in geology were three, and were first, the work that corresponds to N. H. 4; second, a course like N. H. 4a, given in the Genessee Valley, in the coal fields of northeastern Pennsylvania, in the vicinity of Catskill, N. Y., near Meriden, Conn., and at Gay Head; the third was in advanced special work in various localities...
...reciprocity treaty with Canada will furnish us with the trade that we need. (a) It will give us a Iarge and convenient market for our surplus manufactures-American Magazine, XII; Commercial Relations, 1885 6, yol. 1. (b) It will open to us very accessible stores of coal, iron, timber and metals-Stat, Record of Canada, 1887; Forum, VI., p. 241: V. 7, p. 1; North American Review, CXXXIX., p. 44; Harpers, LXXVIII...
...department I can certainly add my voice to the general complaint of poor service. There was no attempt to make extra provision for the holiday season just past. The Society will no longer take orders for wood of good enough quality to be worth burning. The old discount on coal, and on the laundry also, is gone. The work done by the latter is disgraceful. For each one of these back slidings there is probably an excuse but there can be none for all of them taken together, coupled with the lack of improvement anywhere. Your correspondent of yesterday objected...