Word: instead
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Wolfe's excursion in N. H. 8 will go to Brighton at 8 o'clock, instead of 9, as heretofore announced, on Saturday next. The men will meet at the corner of Bartlett and Boylston street...
...THOMPSON, Sec'y.In order to give the members of the Historical Society an opportunity to attend the meeting of the Co-operative Society or Professor Cooke's lecture the meeting of the Society will be held 8.30 instead of the usual time...
...directors of the Co-operative Society propose, in the recommendations printed in another column, a scheme, which, if adopted, will make a considerable change in the Society's methods of doing business. The change would be practically to a plan very similar to that of the famous Rochdale Pioneers. Instead of selling goods at the lowest possible price, they are to be sold not much below ordinary retail prices, though still somewhat below them. On that method, the Society will naturally make profits; and these profits are to be divided at the end of each year among all members. That...
Many men about college will rejoice at the news that Adam will not close up his paradise on the first of May. Instead of spirituous liquors, he will keep sozodont and non-alcoholic champagne on draft...
...very nearly the same as a Grecian trial of strength, which appears to have been arranged in two ways, in one of which the only difference between it and the present "tug-of-war" is that fewer persons took part in it, and that they stood up instead of partly sitting as they do now. In the other the rope was passed over an upper branch of a tree, or through a hole in a high post, and the competitors took hold of the rope, with their backs to the tree, and tried to pull up the opposite side...