Word: junk
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Three tons of old Lampoons were sold yesterday to a junk dealer at three-quarters of a cent a pound...
...management of the society, indeed, the students, and not the superintendent and directors, are to blame, but we do feel that the best of judgment has not always been exercised in making purchases. For instance, there is in stock about $35 worth of calendars, worth now at the nearest junk-shop about a cent and a half a pound. It speaks well for our habits of cleanliness that the superintendent felt justified in laying in such a large stock of soap, but we think that nearly $250 worth is just a little too much. But these matters can be corrected...
...told how in the old junk-shop...