Word: limitations
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Articles I-VIII settles by compromise the three mile limit and headland question.- (a) A compromise is the best way of settling the different claims:- Dr. Snow in Forum for Dec. 1887, p. 347.- (b) Area yielded is to our advantage; Senate Minority Report. p. 89.- (c) We yielded inshore fisheries and they are of little value; Edmunds in Senate Report in Message on Fishery Treaty 1888, p. 584; Concessions yielded by Great Britain in Speech of Saulsbury, Congressional Record...
...treaty is disgraceful to our diplomacy, because: (a) the "three-mile limit" in the case of bays is made to be five miles; (b) we are forbidden to enter eleven bays each more than ten miles in width; (c) the municipal dominion of Canada over these great bays is thus increased; (d) our fishermen are prevented from entering bays where the channel is less than three miles from shore...
...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...