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Thomas Dowse was proprietor of a "wool-puller's" or leather dresser's shop in Cambridgeport, where he lived and worked until his death at the age of eighty-four...
Engaged. Henrietta Case Puller, granddaughter of Jerome I. Case (thrashing machines); to one Nicholas Danforth...
...announcement by the Trustees of the Dowse Institute of a course of five lectures, by Professor Kittredge at Sanders Theatre on "Five Tragedies of Shakspere", recalls attention to the interesting and fruitful endowment which these lectures represent. Thomas Dowse was a wool-puller and leather-dresser in Cambridge port. He began life with scarcely any schooling; was apprenticed to his trade as a boy, and continued in it until his death at the age of 84; living, unmarried, in rooms above his shop, over whose door a carved lamb was set, not to suggest his inclination to fleece...
...Kinnicutt '98, P. Perkins '98, H. Prescott '98. The make-up of the Princeton team is Canning, Brower, Paine, Chidester and Young. The Yale make-up is not yet known. The officials for the match are as follows: Referee, W. Byrd '97; scorer, H. F. Lunt '98; trap-puller, P. Dove...
...jest questhin the boss when he comes 'long. But gosh! look at that picter of a hoss up there: he's a fine-looking critter, ain't he? Speaking of hosses, you know that old un I had last year: he was a good puller, but unsound from the end of his nose to the tip of his tail. He was spavined and hed the heaves, but I'll be blamed if I did n't sell him for a clean hunded and a watch ter boot to a city fellah who thought he was powerful cute...