Word: gold
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Edward Burgess received the gold medal for yacht models at the late Mechanics' Fair. Mr. John L. Frisbee, Mr. George Lawley, Mr. William R. Smith and the Boston yacht agency each received diplomas and bronze medals...
...been decided to give the members of the Yale foot-ball team miniature gold foot-balls as trophies...
...amount of free gold in the treasury has largely increased during the coinage of the present silver dollar.- Report of the Secretary of Treasury, 1886, Table H, p. lxxx...
...continuance will bring the country to a silver basis with all its attendant evils; (b) gold will disappear; (c) the credit of the United States will be impaired; (d) the people, both laborers and capitalists, will suffer; (e) international trade will be carried on with great difficulty.- North American Review, June, 1885, Oct., 1886; Jevon's Currency and Finance, pp. 305 and 306; Nation...
From this stock of standard new books, oddities in stationery, fine opera glasses, umbrellas, the best of pocket knives, extra-heavy gold-plated sleeve buttons, "Ideal" fountain pens (and a hundred other things that may be ordered if not found in stock), one can secure during the coming ten days many a useful and timely present for his friends...