Word: foreman
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...interesting plants, especially those of economic importance, such as the species which furnish coffee, tea, pepper, Peruvian bark, guava, and so on. It seems to be a pity that so many plants are crowded into so small a space, with no chance of properly displaying them, but the new foreman, Mr. Cameron, has shown a great deal of skill in arranging them. He, as well as his first assistant, Mr. Barker. was trained at the royal gardens at Kew, near London. They have given prominence in the arrangement of the plants to those which are likely to be of special...
Burning all his stores there he abandoned it and Sherman at once marched in. The first object of Sherman was attained. In four months with a loss of only 30,000 men he had captured Atlanta, fought a crafty foreman and overcome many natured difficulties. Johnston and Hood had lost 35,000 men. Sherman refitted his army and rested for a month. Mean while Hood began to attack his communications toward Chattanooga. Sherman moved back after him and repaired the railways destroyed. In this manner, one chasing the other, the two armies had almost reached the starting point again. After...
Judge Wylie informed the foreman of the star-route jury yesterday that the trial was nearer an end than he might suppose...
...John H. Moreland, foreman of the University Press, who has "made up" the Advocate ever since it was founded in '66, was presented Thursday with a silver water pitcher and salver by the board of editors of that paper. The presentation marks the close of Mr. Moreland's long connection with the Advocate, which is hereafter to be printed in Boston...
John C. Ralston of Milwaukee, foreman of a soap factory, has received notice that he has fallen heir to a fortune of $3,000,000, left by his great-grandfather in Scotland...