Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...department of ready-made clothing, which was started this year, has proved a great success. The shoe repairing department is also doing a large business. Last month alone 175 pairs of shoes were heeled and soled, and outside of that number there were many smaller jobs. This year the society keeps a larger stock of miscellaneous books and many new publications have been put on sale...
LOST. - On Holyoke street, near Mt. Auburn, Saturday night, one patent leather shoe. Finder return to Leavitt & Pierce and receive reward...
Considerable improvement has been made during the year in the tailoring department and it now constitutes one of the most important departments of the society. The shoe repairing department which was started last winter has been successful beyond all expectations...
...found it necessary to enlarge its quarters again and again until it occupies a large part of Dane Hall and has also taken rooms elsewhere; and it has widened its scope of business so as to include not only books but furniture, men's furnishings, tailoring, and, lately, shoe-repairing. It is today one of the leading cooperative stores of any description in this country, and is, beyond question, the foremost among college cooperative societies. Its nearest rival is the society at Yale and there, so far as can be learned, hardly more than one-third the total annual business...
...indoor handicap games of the B. A. A. last year occurred the first races between any of the larger colleges. Amherst won from Dartmouth in an intensely exciting finish which was decided by the casting of a shoe by a Dartmouth runner on the last lap. Harvard met Yale at the same meeting, but the race was hardly interesting after the first two laps. The feature of the race was the remarkably strong running of Brewer, who ran first for Harvard. With twelve sharp corners to take, he covered his 390 yards in the good time...