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...States. Dr. Jackson first described the vast extent of Alaska, stating that it was almost equal in size to all the states east of the Mississippi, and its natural resources. He said that the income to our national treasury from the fur industry alone had more than paid the price of purchase from Russia. Besides the seals and fur-bearing animals, there are vast quantities of fish in the neighboring waters, forests which surpass those of Maine, great coal fields, and petroleum and precious metals in abundance. The climate of the southern coast in winter is as mild as that...
...duty on sugar should be reduced because: (a) it is excessive.- D. A. Wells, Report on Sugar Industries; (b) a reduction would greatly reduce the price of sugar; (c) the duty is more of the nature of a revenue tax than a protective tariff.- Thompson's Protection to Home Industries, p. 105; (d) it retards, rather than advances, the production of domestic cane sugar.- Congressional Record, Jan. 18, 1889. D. 934 (e) a reduction would decrease the present surplus.- Public Opinion, July...
...BULLARD. Pres.EDITORIAL DINNER.- The dinner of the members of all the college papers will be held on Friday evening, March 22, at the Boston Tavern. A blue book for signatures has been left at Leavitt's. Price of dinner $2.50 per plate. Please sign as soon as possible...
EDITORIAL DINNER-The dinner of the members of all the college papers will be held on Friday evening, March 22, at the Boston Tavern. A blue book for signatures has been left at Leavit's. Price of dinner $2.50 per plate. Please sign as soon as possible...
...SALE.- Thoroughbred Irish Setter Pups of the Elcho stock, Full pedigree. Price $15.00. For particulars address, W. S. B., Jamaica Plain...