Word: railroads
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...going to the U. of P.- Harvard game sign book at Leavitt and Peirce's to get reduction in railroad fares...
...going to the U. of P. Harvard game sign book at Leavitt and Perice's to get reduction in railroad fares...
Arrangements were then discussed for securing railroad tickets and seats for the Exeter-Andover game on Saturday, November...
...PONT, JR.ANDOVER AND EXETER MEN!-The Boston and Maine Railroad will give a round trip fare of seventy-five cents and a special car each way for the game of the 14th, if fifty men can be guaranteed. All men who propose going to the game send me their names and seventy-five cents. If enough men do not signify their intention to go, I will refund the money. Probably some arrangement will be made later for the Andover men to sit together at the game...
...almost all the governors in the annual states in recent years have served three terms; but few in biennial states. Tribune Almanac, 1884-1896. (2) Executives will appoint weak commissions. (a) Appointments will be on party lines. (x) The governors have been elected purely on party issues: Example, Capable railroad commissioners in Mass., and poor ones in N. Y. (c) Biennial elections will make the State legislature less effective. (1) It will produce "green" legislatures. (a) Few members re-elected (Vermont legislatures-vide Bridgman, p. 25). (b) Owing to "district" system in Mass., the representatives of other towns must have...