Word: percent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...week! Ladies or gentlemen desiring pleasant profitable employment write at once. We want you to handle an article of domestic use that recommends itself to every one at sight. Staple as flour. Sells like hot cakes. Profits 300 percent. Families wishing to practice economy should for their own benefit write for particulars. Used every day the year round in every household. Price within reach of all. Circulars free. Agents receive sample free. Address, Domestic Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ohio...
...week! Ladies or gentlemen desiring pleasant profitable employment write at once. We want you to handle an article of domestic use that recommends itself to every one at sight. Staple as flour. Sells like hot cakes. Profits 300 percent. Families wishing to practice economy should for their own benefit write for particulars. Used every day the year round in every household. Price within reach of all. Circulars free. Agents receive sample free. Address, Domestic Manufacturing Company, Marion, Ohio...
...apathy of the students is not alone to blame, however. The memberships and transactions are not so large as they should be, and that is the great cause of failure, but at the same time the superintendent should not have sold things too cheap. If five percent. Profit was needed, five per cent. profit ought to have been made. And it is but a poor consolation that the money which should have gone to the supporting of the society went into the pockets of members buying goods...
...estimating the number of mathematics conditions which have, like a cloud before the sun, obscured the prospect of a degree to many of our fellow students. But all this, be it thankfully said, is changed now we must display a knowledge of analytics sufficient to gain a paltry forty percent. Algebra and trigonometry are things of the past now, and like all other relics of antiquity may be forgotten as speedily as possible. The only dark side to this blissful picture is the remorse which some men will feel who have squandered small fortunes in the unsuccessful attempt to tutor...
...rate of discount given by Geo. F. Bumstead and Co. on paper hangings is raised to 20 percent. uniformly...