Word: coasts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...educated in the Boston schools, and, after a course in the Lawrence Scientific School, received a practical working training in railway machine shops at Dover, N. H. He then went south, and, after some railroad work in Georgia, surveyed the line from Talahassee, Fla., to the east coast during the Seminole war. He was later called to Boston and given charge of building the Cochituate water works. His later years were passed in travel through Egypt with Ralph Waldo Emerson and he finally settled in Boston. A month before his death Mr. Whitwell visited Quebee and Cape Breton, and returned...
...Warren Ethnological Gallery of the Peabody Museum was opened to the public on Thursday. It contains a very valuable collection of clothing, ornaments, spears, models of boats and similar objects collected in Australia, Polynesia, Hawaii, Samoa, the Fiji Islands, and the Northwest coast of America. The collection is now being labelled...
...following Harvard men are members of Battery A, Light Artillery, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia, which has been ordered to do coast defense duty at Galloupe Point, near Swampscot, one section will leave this morning, and the other next week: T. W. Peirce 1900, J. H. Sherburne, Jr., '99, D. Farrington 1900, H. G. Brooks '98, E. L. Sanborn '98, D. H. Bradlee '98, C. Jackson '98, P. Dove '98, E. L. Oliver '99, C. S. Stevens '99, R. B. Baker '99, E. B. Stanwood '99, E. B. Barstow '99, M. Stearns '99, J. H. Cunningham 1 Med., 0. Ames...
...enlisted in the Massachusett's Volunteer Naval Reserves, though only about half that number have actually volunteered in the regular U. S. Navy. Of the latter, the following men have been sent to the U. S. converted cruiser Prairie, the deep sea patrol boat for the New England coast: W. S. Burgess 1901, C. N. King '98, F. Woodbridge 1L., G. H. Dorr 1L, J. B. Moulton '98, F. M. Newton. The two latter men have enlisted as boat swain's mate and coxswain, respectively. B. F. Bell 1900, is on the Catskill at Gloucester, though he is not enlisted...
...discussion of the evidences of change of level of sea or land along the Atlantic coast of North America since the beginning of the cretaceous period...