Word: district
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...North and South Ends spoke of the great need of the young people in those sections for better bathing and skating facilities such as would be afforded by the proposed water-park. The editor of a leading Italian newspaper in Boston spoke for the Italian residents of the district, saying that these people were very fond of open air life and would keenly enjoy the privileges of a new pleasure ground...
...Lecture Room, under the auspices of the Mining Club, by Mr. John H. Hammond, a mining engineer. Mr. Hammond is a graduate of the Sheffield Scientific School, and of the Mining School at Freiburg, Germany. He has been identified for many years with the development of the Rand gold district of the Transvaal, having acted as consulting engineer for the large English mining companies in that region. He was also a member of the famous "Reform Committee," which was tried after the Jameson raid. He will tell about the South African gold mines, taking for his subject, "The Physical Geography...
...controlling the present traffic have many advantages, they are more rigid and less adapted to local conditions than local corporations. These local corporations, in which the profit is turned over partly to the state and partly to the community, adopted at the option of the voters in any given district, have in Norway and Sweden proved remarkably successful in reducing intemperance. There is every reason to believe that in this country also they would furnish the best possible method of dealing with the liquor problem...
...Geological Conference. Papers: Elevated Beaches and Bars of the Port Kent District of Lake Champlain. Professor J. B. Woodworth.--A New Laccolith in Montana (review). Dr. T. A. Jaggar. Rotch Building...
...Geological Conference, Papers; Elevated Beaches and Bars of the Port Kent District of Lake Champlain. Professor J.B. Woodworth.-A New Laccolith in Montana (review). Dr. T. A. Jaggar. Rotch Building...