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...mile bicycle handicap, 250 yards limit. 1st prize, Eagle bicycle, value $130, given by Eagle Bicycle Co.; 2d prize, Kodak Camera; 3d prize, Winchester repeating rifle; 4th prize, old silver...
...mile safety, handicap (open), 100 yards limit. 1st prize, Kodak Camera; 2d prize, Columbia cup, given by the Pope M'f'g. Co.; 3d prize, Flobert Rifle...
...mile bicycle, handicap, 120 yards limit (open). 1st prize, Meyrowitz Bros. yachting glass, given by the Coventry Machinists Co.; 2d prize, traveling bag; 3d prize, engraved silver...
...Trusts and combinations are an economic evil. (a) They destroy competition, as in the case of the Standard Oil Company. (b) They often limit and suppress production. (c) By control of the market they can raise prices the Copper Syndicate. (d) They tend to build up monopolies and drive small capitalists out of business.- Quarterly Journal of Economics. Jan. 1889. New York State Leg. Report...
...novel and most important feature of the telescope is the mirror. This is polsed or hinged so that it may be set at whatever angle is necessary for reflecting the object of study into the telescope field; but there is this strict limit of the range of observation, that the object must be at or near to meridian. For the contemplated uses of the instrument this limitation is not regarded as a disadvantage, as the meridian position of an object is always best for observation because there the atmospheric obstruction is least. By varying the angle at which the mirror...