Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sales of the Co-operative Society for the month ending November 30 show an increase of $4500 over the receipts for the corresponding month last year. A comparison of the different articles sold shows an increase of $1273.76 on furniture, $952.59 on men's furnishings, $993.46 on books, $565.02 on stationery, $310.70 on tailoring, $566.11 on coal and wood, and $39 on fees. In preparation for the Christmas trade the society has laid in a stock of books, photographs, furniture, etc., to the amount...
...grant to the Uitlanders. Regarding the first of these, that the condition of affairs in the Transvaal demanded a remedy, he cited cases to prove that there was no representation in equality before the law, grievous economic burdens and insecurity of life and property. He then went on to show that grievances in South Africa are wide spread and deep rooted...
...upon the general principles of international law. Dealing with the relations of the parties he pointed out that in 1877 England's sovereignty over the Transvaal was complete beyond question. Not until the conventions of 1881 and 1884 was home rule given to the Transvaal. He went on to show that these conventions were given upon certain specific conditions and that the Transvaal had repeatedly broken these conditions. From these facts there can be but one conclusion, that by its own act, by the failure to keep the conditions of the grants, the Transvaal has sacrificed the protection of these...
...actions of the present war, but did claim that England's interference was not justifiable. The policy of England in South Africa is tending to tear the races asunder, to destroy all relations that ever existed between England and the Boers. Furthermore, the few instances cited by the affirmative show no more proof of a state of mob law in the Transvaal than our 127 lynchings last year prove that the United States is in a state of riot...
Mayor Quincy of Boston, will speak in the Fogg Lecture Room tonight at 8 o'clock on the public baths and gymnasium of Boston. The stereopticon views, which will be used, were bought by the city especially for this lecture and show all the facilities of Boston for out-door recreation...