Word: seaboard
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There is plenty of room for immigrants.- Compendium of Tenth Census, Vol. I, p. 7. (b) Immigration should be diverted from the seaboard to the west and south.- Proceedings of the Immigration Convention of Texas, December...
...time to meet it, if we are to keep up the character of our colleges in the view of parents and the community generally, and to make them places of high education where cultivated tastes and refined manners are acquired. I think the colleges on the Eastern seaboard should come to an understanding with each other. It is their duty at present not to cast reflections on each other, but to unite to correct the abuses which have sprung up in connection with these public games on holidays, where we are in danger of having all the evils...
...watercraft ; so that now the purchaser of one must, with so wide a choice, exercise great discretion. The character of the water in which he proposes to cruise and his own physical strength are to be taken into consideration. Should the canoe be desired for use along the seaboard or on large lakes, a sailing canoe of the Nautilus or Rob Roy types, a good sea-boat and one easy to manage, will not aurally be selected. These canoes are somewhat heavy and are not easy to transport on land as it is not supposed that there will be much...
...Saunders of Chicago, president of the cattle commission, is in Washington for the purpose of consulting with Assistant-Secretary of the Treasury French with reference to some proposed quarantine stations along the seaboard...