Word: getting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...here costs the German manufacturer 80 cents, owing to the difference in the skill of the laborer. A maker of gunny-bags here found that he could compete with the maker in India who only paid 12 cents a day for wages. He said further that if he could get his raw materials free, he could send his goods to India and drive the manufacturer there out of business by underselling him. Mr. Brooks once gave the facts of the tax on Chilian copper to some working men, and let them work out the results. They soon came...
...object, it seems, to having the delivery boy enter at such an early hour, and consequently the doors are locked and the boy is given the alternative of leaving the papers on the steps outside, or of not leaving them at all. In either case the subscribers do not get their papers. If they will investigate the matter themselves, they will find that it is not our fault, but that of the people with whom they lodge...
...GET your Furniture repaired at POWERS'S, 30 Boylston street, near post office...
Owing to the protracted periods of low temperature this winter, the ice has formed more thickly than usual on the river this year, and the crews will probably not get on the water as soon as they did last spring. The basin below the Brookline street bridge is free from all fixed ice, but there is still a good deal of loofe floating ice which the tide carries from one bridge to the other. Above the Brookline street bridge, however, there is still a good deal of fixed ice, which it will take some time to break up. In places...
...GET your Furniture repaired at POWERS'S, 30 Boylston street, near post office...