Word: expressman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...payment to his widow. Mr. Fredriksen trusted to the honor of the students and kept no accounts, and consequently it is impossible to ascertain what is due him. We sincerely hope that there will be no delay in settling on the part of those men who employed the late expressman...
Under the head of "Affiliated Tradesmen," attention is called to the statement regarding paying expressage on first presentation of bill, i. e., when the goods are delivered and charges named by the expressman, it being impossible for Messrs. Sawin & Co. to present a written bill at that time. Written bills, presented after the charge has been entered upon their books, are not subject to a discount. Those who have not received a copy of the regulations are requested to get one at the office...
...life as the Miscellany editors were. They wanted to lock the doors and stay a day, a week, a month, if necessary, until the guilty wretch should confess the crime; and they would have stayed, too, if some one hadn't come and said that the expressman had just brought a box of Whitman's candy to one of them; and then they thought they could discover the culprit by asking all the innocent ones to go to the board and tell them that it was not they; and then the Miscellany got mad because only the older girls went...