Word: percent
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Carpet dealer (instead of Joel Goldthwaite and Co., John H. Pray Sons and Co., 558 Washington street, Boston, 12 1-3 percent...
Added: Cambridge Picture Framer, Packer and Shipper, Mr. A. Morgan, 434 Harvard street. Discount 15 percent...
...which has a much greater illuminating surface and consumes only one quarter as much power as the filament carbon, and gives four fold the amount of light for the same power, requiring at the same time a very small wire, thereby avoiding all danger from fire. It is fifty percent. cheaper than the gas that is being used in Cambridge at this time. The Incandescent lamp constructed with the carbon tube or cylinder, gained great renown at the world's fair of electricity at Vienna last autumn and is considered to be the best electric light in existence, adapted...
...Fairchild's pens and pencils which are offered at 25 percent. reduction from the retail, will be sold back to the dealers soon, if more are not taken...
Until within the last few years the influx of students to Harvard College has come, to a great extent, from the New England States, Massachusetts in particular, and so large has the percent from Boston and its environs amounted to, that the college has had the name of being a Boston college altogether. Latterly, while the New England element has remained about the same, the increase from the south and west has been noteworthy, and its influence is felt more and more each year upon the classes. Many people believe that the influence and reputation of the college accounts...