Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge Tribune will be published next Friday. It is to be illustrated with pictures of interest to Harvard men. It will contain all information about Class Day needed by visitors, and will be an excellent souvenir of the occasion. The most notable illustration will be the reproduction of a copper-plate engraving of the college buildings in 1775 made by Paul Revere. The plate has been preserved in the Massachusetts State archives. The price of the paper will be five cents. Advance orders for numbers to be mailed out of town may be left at the Tribune office...
...Lawrence River, or "Magnus Fluvius Novi Belgae" as the Atlas calls it, a couple of pelicans stand gazing at each other in mute admiration. The author describes North America as being divided into "New France, New Spain, Virginia, Florida, New Granada and California, which are inhabited by copper-colored barbarians of horrid mien. The work cost 300 marks in Dresden, Germany...
...only paid 12 cents a day for wages. He said further that if he could get his raw materials free, he could send his goods to India and drive the manufacturer there out of business by underselling him. Mr. Brooks once gave the facts of the tax on Chilian copper to some working men, and let them work out the results. They soon came to him and said that the tax had diminished our exports to Chili by four-fifths, and that a number of laborers, who had formerly made the exported articles, were thrown out of employment. Owing...
...programme for the reading of Mr. Irving and Miss Terry at Huntington Hall this afternoon at 2 o'clock is as follows: Gemini at Virgo (Calverly), Miss Terry; Feast of Belshazzar (Arnold). Miss Terry; Hamlet and the Players (Shakspeare), Mr. Irving; Copper field and the Walter (Dickens), Mr. Irving; Merchant of Venice (Shakespeare), Miss Terry; Edmund Kean (English Actors), Mr. Irving...
...stationery department has a new stock of visiting and correspondence cards; a new engraver has been engaged and new arrangements are being made for all printing from engraved copper plates, and for stamping paper from steel dies...