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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...vote referred to, there were twenty-one free traders, or six more than the total of Republicans. At Yale the protectionists fall 20 per cent below the Republicans, and the freetraders outnumber the Democrats in the proportion of forty-two to thirteen. This too, without counting eleven who shrink from the name of free traders, but avow themselves revenue reformers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 6/16/1888 | See Source »

...think this strange. It is necessarily connected with our growth. Probably nowhere on this planet can a thousand young men be found between the ages of eighteen and twenty-four who will not show examples of the heedless, the temptable, and the depraved. Let us not, then, shrink from acknowledging the ugly fact, extravagance is here-shameless, coarse extravagance...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Expenses at Harvard. | 10/20/1887 | See Source »

...flannel (stripped) blaizers, tennis flannel and English serge pants, long and short, and a large assortment of tennis and gymnasium shoes. French fancy flannel shirts, different styles of cheviot shirts, etc I make a specialty of white twill tennis flannel and white English serge which is warranted not to shrink. I have great facility for manufacturing the above goods and I guarantee to give perfect satisfaction and to make cheaper and better than any other store in the city. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard street, Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/23/1887 | See Source »

...flannel (stripped) blaizers, tennis flannel and English serge pants, long and short, and a large assortment of tennis and gymnasium shoes. French fancy flannel shirts, different styles of cheviot shirts, etc I make a specialty of white twill tennis flannel and white English serge which is warranted not to shrink. I have great facility for manufacturing the above goods and I guarantee to give perfect satisfaction and to make cheaper and better than any other store in the city. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard street, Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/21/1887 | See Source »

...flannel (stripped) blaizers, tennis flannel and English serge pants, long and short, and a large assortment of tennis and gymnasium shoes. French fancy flannel shirts, different styles of cheviot shirts, etc. I make a specialty of white twill tennis flannel and white English serge which is warranted not to shrink. I have great facility for manufacturing the above goods and I guarantee to give perfect satisfaction and to make cheaper and better than any other store in the city. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard street, Cambridge...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 5/20/1887 | See Source »

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