Word: poore
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...draws crowds at the Boston Museum, and will continue there until further notice. As might be expected in a farcical comedy the characters are broadly drawn, though consistent. Miss Sheridan as Fifi Oritanski is the most natural, while Mr. Booth as Victor Smythe hardly makes the best of a poor part. Mr. Wilson is comical as Tom McDow, and excites constant laughter by his acting...
...Keyes coaching. Tuesday they went down to the river: Hartridge being absent, Watriss got in at 2 and Finlay at 4. The day was excessively windy and the water rough, but they rowed down almost to the Harvard bridge. The rowing was far from satisfactory; the time was poor, the oars clumsily handled and the starboard side rowing much more weakly than the port side...
...even by political economists. An indirect tax is in many cases an incorrect tax, for it enhances the value of an article far beyond the original value of the article and the tax. For this very reason, there is a close connection between indirect taxation and pauperism, since the poor are obliged to buy in small quantities commodities upon which indirect taxes have been levied, and the price of which has been raised correspondingly. For a small quantity of a commodity always brings a proportionately higher price than a large quantity of the same commodity...
...conclusion Mr. Wells spoke of the unique system of American taxation, of the different phases of taxation under the Articles of Confederation, of the curious methods of taxation in England during past centuries, and instanced the poll tax as the best of personal taxes, for it impressed upon the poor citizen the fact of his being part of a civil society which needed his support...
...good style, well cut clothes for men, costs only a trifle more than is charged for poor work. Men who can afford it, make a mistake in not buying the best clothes they can get; as the result represents the finest material, the best workmanship, and artistic designing. We make a specialty of producing the finest that can be made, and our prices are moderate, with a discount of 10 per cent for cash. The patronage of gentlemen who appreciate the above facts is solicited. FRANK D. SOMERS, 5 Park St. Boston...