Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Germany and $1.50 here, without a tariff we should be undersold by pauper labor. But time wages are of no importance. The question is, which labor is cheapest for the manufacturer? Statistics show that the highest wages are the cheapest, and that low wages are the most expensive. A shoe which costs the employer 38 cents here costs the German manufacturer 80 cents, owing to the difference in the skill of the laborer. A maker of gunny-bags here found that he could compete with the maker in India who only paid 12 cents a day for wages. He said...
LOST.- Will the gentleman who, on Thursday afternoon, took a leather shoe (No. 8, F. E. Mosely and Co.) Iying near locker 743, please return the same and oblige OWNER...
Exeter has an active snow-shoe club...
...club will be received by a committee, at 8 a.m., at the Boston & Lowell station, and be escorted to Harvard University, where the forenoon will be passed. After dinner at the Quincy House, the club will be escorted to the Boston Base-ball grounds, where an exhibition of snow-shoe racing will be given. In the evening a concert will be given in Music Hall, at 8 o'clock, consisting of tableaux representing Canadian winter sports, and songs by a chorus of 300 voices. Le Trappeur Club will be dressed in uniform and be accompanied by the Victoria Rifle Band...
...tickets for the "Les Trappeurs" entertainment. We shall receive them February 14 at 8 a.m. and immediately come out to the college at the invitation of Col. T. W. Higginson, As there will be between three hundred and four hundred of "Les Trappeurs" in toboggan and snow shoe costumes, would it not be well to agitate the matter of having some of the students meet them and show them the points of interest. I wish you would call attention in your paper to the matter. As you have doubtless noticed, all the toboggan clubs are uniting to make this...