Word: woolen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Question: "Resolved, That the woolen industries of New England can not flourish permanently unless the duties upon raw wool are removed...
LOST.- At Saturday's foot ball game, a dark woolen glove (right hand). The finder will confer a favor by leaving same at Auditor's office Memorial Hall...
...close of the war a great amount of army woolens was foreed upon the market, and a natural depression in the woolen trade followed. Business men could not suddenly comprehend the cause of the situation. They sought help from the government, and a tariff more stringent than any of its predecessors-the tariff of 1868, was enacted. That tariff is now twenty-two years old, and as a wool dealer, Mr. Garrison did not hesitate to affirm that it is a disappointment...
That the tariff does not create is demonstrated by the falling off in the woolen industry since the war. In only one line has it grown, and that is in the worsted trade. That branch has been built up, not by the tariff, but by skill and industry. Indirectly the tariff has assisted, because it does not tax the wool used in this industry so heavily as it does other grades of wool...
...Yale nine were measured Friday for their uniforms which are to be similar to those of last year. The caps, trousers and shirts are to be of light gray woolen cloth; stockings and jerseys of royal blue. The men will have blue and white imported blazers of a unique pattern-wide blue stripes with narrow white ones in the center, alternating with wide whites containing narrow blue stripes...