Word: silver
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Beacon St., Boston.LOST. - On Holmes Field, Saturday afternoon, briar pipe, bull dog pattern, silver band marked, Broomall and Wogan, W. D. C. Finder can get reward by returning it to 49 Grays...
FOUND, in the college yard on Saturday, a silver watch. Owner may have the same by applying at 58 Thayer Hall and paying for this advertisement...
...athletic interest of Princeton, the university authorities have put the collection in charge of the Athletic Association. The prizes will be placed on exhibition in the trophy room of the Osborn clubhouse. The collection consists of twenty-five heavy gold medals, most of which are first prizes, and eight silver cups, with a large number of smaller prizes of various kinds. They were won in the many games in which Mr. Dohm participated, usually running the quarter or the half mile, throughout the United States and Canada, as well as across the Atlantic...
Question: "Resolved, That any further coinage of silver by the United States is undesirable...
...Such coinage of silver by the U. S. would be highly beneficial. - (a) Would prevent evils of single gold standard: See I above. - (b) Would lead to establishing our whole currency system on a sound basis. - (1) Silver money would be honest: See III (c) above. - (2) Greenbacks, which drain Treasury of gold, might be withdrawn: Harpers Weekly, Dec. 22, 1894. - (3) Silver might replace National Bank circulation, which is decreasing and must soon end: U. S. Statistical abstract, 1893, p. 42. - (c) Would likely lead to an international bimetallic agreement...