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CLEANING, PRESSING AND REPAIRING done at McDonnell's old stand, 8 Boylston street, near Post-Office. Spring suits cleaned; and pressed; full dress shirts pressed; pants creased. Agents for the French Dye House. General repairing of all kinds. J. B. BRINE, 8 Boylston street, near Post-Office...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Special Notices. | 3/3/1888 | See Source »

...being made for proper legislation. In America, however, public opinion needs further education. It is popularly supposed that all green papers are dangerous, and that all others are safe. In consequence, arsenical green papers have become unsaleable, and great care is taken to have them safe. A brilliant red dye has, however, been discovered, which is made from coal tar by the use of arsenic, and this enters into the composition of Pompeian red and various browns, where its use would be least suspected. Arsenic is also used to brighten other colors, and as an antiseptic in the size. Since...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Arsenic in Wall Papers. | 1/18/1888 | See Source »

...Yale will probably have to look elsewhere for athletic honors. Hence, with a raw university crew, an untried and discouraged nine, and the recollection of the last Yale-Princeton foot-ball game, Yale's colors are rapidly changing from navy blue to indigo of the deepest and most sombre dye...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale's Candidates for the Inter-Collegiate Contest. | 4/1/1886 | See Source »

Harvard College is not a dye tank into which the youth of the country are plunged and then emerge all of one color. No; the influence a college course will have on a young man depends, in a great measure, on the man himself...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: False and True Impressions of Harvard. | 1/25/1886 | See Source »

...right). Now, mother says I am looking quite badly, and father says I smell like a barkeeper, and my cousin Mary says I am horrid, so that she has to use her smelling-bottle. And . . ." [Here we cut out some affecting lamentations.] "Help us ere we dye. Very sincerely yours...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REJECTED COMMUNICATIONS. | 3/6/1882 | See Source »

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