Word: merchant
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...ultimate chances of success. The student will also hear with mingled feelings of joy and sorrow of the man who has made his mark in the world, and of the man who has been forced to abandon the profession and step down into the lower rank of a merchant. All these statements cannot fail to impress themselves upon the student's mind; he will carry the thoughts of the speaker home with him and will endeavor, as far as he sees fit, to heed his advice. And so it is in all the other lectures the student attends. They...
...both Harvard and Yale peanuts and sandwiches but afterwards only one kind remains in stock, and that kind is sure to be well patronized by the supporters of the victorious crew. Of a truth the New London trader is a happy man, for, while the Cambridge or New Haven merchant must suffer in turn the distress of unpaid bills, he has shekels unnumbered thrust into his very face...
BOSTON MUSEUM, - Edwin Booth in "The Merchant of Venice" and "Katharine and Petruchio...
...again at her post as Pitti Sing at the Hollis St. Theatre; Miss Louise Montague, Forepaugh's $10.000 beauty, is playing Yum Yum. The Mikado still attracts crowded audiences. Mr. Booth at the Museum will appear as Richelieu on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday evenings, and Saturday afternoon, in the "Merchant of Venice" and "Katharine and Petruchio on Thursday, "The Fool's Revenge" on Friday and "A New Way to Pay Old Debts" on Saturday evening...
Will contain serial stories by Charles Egbert Craddock, author of "The Prophet of the Great Smoky Mountains," "In the Tennessee Mountains," etc. Henry James, "The Princess Casomassina" will continue until August, 1886. William H. Bishop, author of "The House of a Merchant Prince." James Russell Lowell will write for the Atlantic Monthly for 1886. John Fiske will contribute papers on United States History. Philip Gilbert Hamerton will furnish a series of articles comparing French and English people, character, opinions, customs, etc. Thomas Bailey Aldrich will contribute some short stories...