1795-1895. One Hundred Years of American Commerce ...: A History of American Commerce by One Hundred Americans, with a Chronological Table of the Important Events of American Commerce and Invention Within the Past One Hundred Years, Volume 2Chauncey Mitchell Depew |
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Ameri American amount annual apparatus became began boots and shoes Boston branch brought building capital carpets census cent century Chain-stitch chemical Chicago Cincinnati cities clothing Company compound locomotive construction cost cotton cotton-seed D. M. Thomas demand Diamond Match Company dry-goods early electric employed England established Europe export extensive factories facture fifty firm fish foreign heat houses important improved increased industry introduced invention iron jobbers John known labor later leather Lock-stitch locomotives machine machinery makers manu manufac manufacture matches material mechanical ment methods mills operation output packing patent Philadelphia pianos pounds present quantity rubber salt sewing sewing-machine soap sold square pianos starch steam Steinway & Sons stove success supply textile thread tion to-day tons trade type-writer United white lead William William Steinway wine woolen York York City
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Page 483 - ... to which the nature of the articles suggests no objection, and which may, at the same time, furnish a motive the more to the fabrication of them at home, towards which some beginnings have been made.
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