Word: firms
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Alfred Wood has failed to keep his contract with the Co-operative Society, the board of directors has voted to strike off his name from the list of affiliated tradesmen. The grocery firm of S. S. Pierce & Co., of Boston, has agreed to supply the superintendent of the society with all goods dealt in by them at wholesale rates, and to deliver free of charge at the office of the society. Orders can now be left at the office, and the goods will be delivered at rooms, if desired, by Sawin's express, at a charge of ten cents...
...little as possible an apoplectic fit: "We have hitherto confined our attention to college affairs. But within the past ten days an affair has happened which, although small in itself, yet involves a principle which is of no small moment. We allude to the action of a well-known firm in this place in bringing suit against one of the students who refused to take a suit of clothes which did not fit him. That it was a misfit there is not a particle of doubt. But our worthy shop-keepers, strong in the consciousness that they have Ithaca justice...
...decry and abuse the conduct of Minister Lowell in regard to the Irish suspects. Mass meetings to denounce his course are having a great vogue. Opinions may differ as to the perfect wisdom of his policy; but might not the more impartial and unprejudiced classes unite to express their firm belief in his integrity and patriotism, which now appear to be so freely doubted, and to endeavor in some measure to stem the tide of demagogism that is rolling over the land? The Harvard Union might perform this function for this community, and might find this a very interesting question...
Members of the Co-operative Society are requested to change the word "hardware," which appears on the list of articles to be bought at a discount, to "cutlery." The firm, opposite whose name it appears, do not deal in general hardware...
...firm of Vogel & Co., silk merchants of New York, has been carrying on an extensive swindling operation. The bales of silk, delivered to different parties, have been found to contain nothing but shavings, with a small quantity of silk on the outside. One member of the firm has left for Naples, and the detectives are on his track...