Word: shell
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...alarm was rung in from box 61 night before last for a fire in a large three-story wooden buiding on Mill street, just off Holyoke st. The building is occupied by five shops-the ground floor by a shell-builder and a rod-maker, the second floor by a carpenter, and the third by another carpenter and a slater. The building was valued at about $2,500 and was an utter loss. All except one lost a large part of their stock, in fact little was saved except a few shells and a large part of the slater...
Harvard has been rowing a series of annual eight-oar shell races with Yale since 1876. The record won is a tie-each college having row six races. Prior to the eight-oar contests the record was 17 to 4 in favor of Harvard. Beginning with the annual series, Yale won in 1876 by eight lengths. The following three years Harvard's crew, with Bancroft as stroke and captain in '77 and '78, and with Trimble as captain in '79, won all the races. In 1880, Yale won, and also in 1881 by six seconds. Capt. Hammond...
...first boat of the season appeared on the river yesterday afternoon. The new pair-oared shell, which Mr. Frank Peabody ordered in England, was tried for the first time by Mr. Peabody, Mr. H. W. Keyes and Mr. R. C. Watson. The shell is a beauty, made so as to set low in the water and with two pairs of sliding seats so that stroke and bow may row either on the port or starboard side. The coxswain's seat is finely upholstered. The boat was made by the well-known Cambridge boat-builders, Swaddle...
...ladies of New York interested in the Homeopathic College and Hospital of that city are to hold a fair during the week beginning April 2nd. At this fair is to be a "'varsity booth," and an eight-oared shell is to be voted to the most popular college. The shell has been ordered from Waters, the boat-builder, who agrees to furnish "a first-class eight-oared shell, latest model, for a crew averaging 150-165 lbs." The boat is to be "thoroughly seasoned, filled with latest improvements, hull to be commenced at once, the rigging to be subsequently fitted...
...Ladies' Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in New York is soon to have a fair, in which an eight-oared shell will be voted to the most popular college. Waters of Troy is now building the shell...