Word: tobacco
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...passes into the adjoining room, specimens illustrating useful plants will be seen, arranged for the most part in definite order. The more important of these are the full illustrations of the chocolate plant, nutmeg, cloves, cotton, flax and tobacco. These occupy separate compartments in the newly constructed cases, and all are now specifically labelled. The next invoice of glass flowers is already on its way, and the specimens will probably be ready for exhibition by the middle of April...
...Black then read a few of Barrie's sketches of the Edinburgh University professors, and extracts from "Shutting a Map," "My Tobacco Pouch," and "A Window in Thrums...
...Flaws in the existing tariff make some changes necessary.- (a) Wool. (b) Reduction to tobacco tax. (c) Flax. (d) Sugar. (e) Minimums: Taussig's Tariff History, pp. 258-9, 277, 289, 275-7, 81-104, 270, and Robert Donald in Contemporary Review. Oct. '92, p. 496. (f) Financial results of the existing tariff: N. Y. Tribune, Sept. 4, Boston Herald, Sept...
...would be interesting to accompany Mr. Bolles and study it for a day or two. Some of the back-wood customs are decidedly novel, for example we are told that a common form of attention for the drivers to show their favorite horses is to feed them on chewing tobacco. Mr. John Fiske has an article in this number on Edward Augustus Freeman giving a sketch of his life and a brief study of his character. The most amusing article of the number is the "Diary of a Nervou Invalid" by E L. Bynner. Other noteworthy articles in this number...
Taylor cottage, the new Andover dormitory, is finished, and ready for occupancy. No one using tobacco will be permitted to occupy the rooms...