Word: powder
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...each. Partridge's tennis rackets at 20 per cent. discount from list. The Soule Photo, stock is ready. The framed pictures now in stock cannot be duplicated at the same prices. A new lot of lower-priced lamps with duplex burners is ready. Sponges, soaps, brushes, combs, tooth powder, shaving brushes, toilet paper, razors, cutlery and other sundries. Record note books. 19c. per quire. Gold fountain pens...
...each. Partridge's tennis rackets at 20 per cent. discount from list. The Soule Photo, stock is ready. The framed pictures now in stock cannot be duplicated at the same prices. A new lot of lower-priced lamps with duplex burners is ready. Sponges, soaps, brushes, combs, tooth powder, shaving brushes, toilet paper, razors, cutlery and other sundries. Record note books, 19c. per quire. Gold fountain pens...
...HARRISON.HARVARD SHOOTING CLUB. To wind up the spring matches, a "merchandise shoot" will be held at the grounds on Friday afternoon, May 28. The prizes will be as follows: 1 gun case, 1 cartridge bag, 1 cleaning rod, 1 set of loading tools, 4 1-4 lb. can of powder, and 200 paper shells. The winners will be determined by the best aggregate scores in these events; 10 straightaway, 10 five angles, 5 pairs (doubles) all clay pigeons. Practice after the regular shoot. Cars leave every half hour...
...August 9th, 1818, Amos Davis, Quarter-Master General, wrote to the Honorable Council as follows: "A stone powder magazine has been built on Captain's Island in Cambridge; a brick wall inclosing the magazine will be finished in about twenty days. The building will then be in complete order for the reception of powder...
...magazine had capacity for fifty tons of powder, and was usually kept pretty well filled. The bulk of the powder belonged to private parties, although the State always stored there to some extent...