Word: station
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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RIFLE AND REVOLVER CLUB.- Shoot Saturday. All men be at Union Station at 1.50 p. m. sharp...
...decided effort is being made by a number of prominent Cambridge citizens to induce the West End Railroad to provide better accommodations for its passengers at the Harvard square transfer station. Although more passengers are transferred there daily than at almost any other point in the West End system, only one small room has been provided; and the constant overflow of passengers into the street which necessarily results is alike an inconvenience to passengers and a disturbance to traffic...
...United States Government map of the Thames as a guide. The width of the river from shore to shore is given as follows: Start, 2000 feet; 1-2 mile, 2500 feet; 1 mile, 1250 feet; 1 1-2 mile, 2250 feet; 2 mile (directly opposite United States naval station), 1300 feet; 2 1-2 mile, 2700 feet; 3 mile, 2300 feet; 3 1-2 mile, 2700 feet; 4 mile (finish), 1450 feet...
Harvard in her rebuttals merely reiterated what she had said in her set speeches. Jump, Yale's speaker scored a strong point for Yale. Harvard contended that the Uaited States needs a coaling station in the Pacific; that in the event of a foregin war the United States would have to have such a station in order to sweep the Pacific of her enemies' ships. Yale answered this statement by saying that the annexation of Hawaii would only extend the boundary of the United States 2000 miles further westward, and would necessitate doubling the number of ships in our navy...
...United States. A base of supplies is needed to make our navy efficient in the Pacific. For this purpose, Midway Island, 1200 miles west of Honolulu, was annexed in 1867, but owing to poor harbor facilities was abandoned. The right of the United States to maintain a coaling station in Pearl Harbor is coexistent only with the treaty which may be abrogated by either party on twelve months'notice...