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Dates: during 1890-1899
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ORANGE, N. J., May 15. - One thousand persons witnessed the game of ball which was played on Orange Oval this afternoon between the Princeton and Brown nines. The Princetons had everything their own way from the start and rolled up six runs in the second inning, a lead which their opponents could not overcome. Lang, Brown's catcher, injured one of his fingers while catching a foul tip and had to retire from the game...
...business management, for the salary of a competent managing editor, and for payment for the reviews and for a part of the articles, a sum is necessary which no publisher can be expected to risk at the outset. The conference therefore voted to raise a guarantee fund of two thousand dollars a year for three years; after which time it is reasonably hoped the Review may be self-sustaining. To this sum must be added an amount sufficient to pay preliminary expenses, and to allow for guarantors' copies...
...particular way and is exempt. Second, between insurance companies. Of two insurance companies, one is a regular stock company and is taxed two per cent on net income; the other, a mutual company, goes free-Third, between kinds of income. This bill exempts general incomes of four thousand dollars, while corporations are taxed two per cent on net incomes without exemption. All corporate stock is widely distributed among persons whose income is less than $4,000. Thus a man with an income of $4,000 derived from partnership is exempt, while a man with the same income derived from...
There would be no reason for the discussion of this question, said Professor James, if life were always enjoyable, and if the temperament of pessimism did not exist. When we think that there are annually about three thousand suicides in the United States, we may well ask ourselves, what can we do to make life worth living for those mortals who are brooding on their...
...Free Art Exhibition given in the South End two years ago with so great success is to be repeated, beginning about the middle of April. The Exhibition of 1893 lasted thirty days, and during that time the attendance numbered over forty thousand. The Boston Advertiser said at its conclusion: "It may be doubted whether there has ever been in Boston, or anywhere else, a more successful enterprise of a kindred nature than this Free Art Exhibition...