Word: trade
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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THERE will be a meeting for workingmen at Trade Association Hall, Central square, tomorrow evening under the auspices of the Wm. E. Russell Democratic Club. Professor Eugene Wambough will speak. Professor Shaler will preside...
Longmans, Green and Co. are about to issue the first volume of a new series of historical works (Harvard Historical Studies), to be published under the direction of the Department of History in Harvard University. The volume, which is entitled "The Suppression of the African Slave Trade to the United States of America, 1638-1870," is by William E. Brughardt DuBois, a Negro, twenty-eight years of age, born at Great Barrington, Mass. He was educated in the public schools of his home, at Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn., at Harvard University (A. B., '90; A. M. '91; Fellow...
Economics 2. Condition of the Workingman, Trade Unions, etc. Instructor...
...island of Gotland in the Baltic, 130 miles southeast of Stockholm, said Dr. Derby, lies the city of Wisby. During the 12th and 13th centuries Wisby was a great distributing centre through which passed the trade from the East. The wealth of the city grew mightily until in the 14th century a rich merchant of the town who had become discontented, fied to the king of Denmark, Waldemar, and excited him to plunder Wisby...
...attacked and after a ransom had been demanded and given, a faithless plunder followed. Thereafter, the importance of the city decreased. In 1525, it was plundered again by a jealous neighboring city and the discovery of the passage round the Cape of Good Hope caused the loss of its trade with the East...