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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...settled. A large number of shoe factories are situated in Brockton, and the population is almost entirely composed of workingmen. Mr. Brooks is making vigorous efforts to educate the laborers so that they may be less blind to the labor problems of the day. With this end in view, he has rented a hall near the place where the workingmen live, and holds free discussions there every Thursday evening on such subjects as the tariff, trade-unions, convict and Chinese labor, the eight hour system, and strikes. These meetings are well attended, the men show considerable intelligence, and after...
LOST.- A gold pencil, marked "M. B. K." at the end, Saturday afternoon in the gymnasium. Finder will please return the same to No. 12 Read Building...
LOST.- In the south end of the gymnasium, Saturday afternoon, part, of a link sleeve button. Will finder please return it to the director of the gymnasium...
Last Monday the Boston aldermen gave the West End Street Railway Company a hearing concerning the cable system that they propose to introduce in Boston and vicinity. Many strong arguments were presented in favor of the system, and but little opposition encountered. The various advantages of the cable over the electric and elevated systems were shown. The cable system can be operated at all seasons of the year, while the electric will not work in winter; the elevated system, by darkening the streets and stores in addition to making it disagreeable for second story dwellers, decreased the value of real...
...judges had to announce a draw. The final light-weight wrestling went to Cabot, who won the only fall in the second bout; Paine did not appear for the third. The floor was now cleared for the tug-of-war. The sophomores, with the following team, had the north end of the building: A. Amory, (anchor), L. A. Piper, E. S. Jones and R. Jones, while '91 was represented by J. J. Higgins, (anchor), W. A. McClellan, 3; J. White, 2; and P. Y. DeNormandie, 1. The pull was a very exciting one. The freshmen won the drop...