Word: contracts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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tings. Through false representations he has already induced several men to sign their names in "an address book" which later has taken the form of a legal contract binding the signer to the amount of $50.00. The paper is tampered with after it is signed by the would-be purchaser...
...team has been placed in the hands of a committee of the Athletic Association. The school held a meeting last week, raised $260, and authorized the committee to engage a professional coach; the committee have hired "Connie" Mack, who played with the Buffalo team last year. According to the contract Mack is to receive $25 a week, together with living expenses not to exceed $10 per week. In return for this he is to coach the team for three and a half hours a day. The committee have given Mack entire control of the men trying, so that he will...
...Columbia navy has made a contract for a new launch which will make 13 miles an hour...
...committee on the new Yale launch have not been able to secure a suitable launch already built, and have directed Messrs. Reilly and Crowley of Brooklyn to build a new boat. Mr. Samuel Ayers, the Bay Ridge launch builder, has the contract for building the hull, and the boat is to be in readiness for the practice pulls of the crew in the harbor by the middle of May. The contract calls for a 52-foot launch that will steam 14 knots an hour for 90 miles. The new launch will be 52 feet long, about the same length...
...will be many years before the collection will be complete, the artists being now engaged upon it, and being under contract to work upon it without intermission until completed. It is entirely unique, no institution or individual in the world possessing anything like it. Some four hundred specimens have been so far received all of which, with the exception of those in the case mentioned below, are safely stored for the present, awaiting the return of Professor Goodale from abroad...