The History of the Cotton Famine: From the Fall of Sumter to the Passing of the Public Works ActSaunders, Otley, and Company, 1865 - Всего страниц: 350 |
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... continued to supply the district with pure water , so soft , that as compared with that of London , it is estimated to require one - half less soap , and one - third less tea , to produce equal results in the washing - tub , or in the ...
... continued to supply the district with pure water , so soft , that as compared with that of London , it is estimated to require one - half less soap , and one - third less tea , to produce equal results in the washing - tub , or in the ...
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... continued during its submer- sion , the coal - fields might have shared the same fate as the red sandstone which once covered it ; the hills between Lancashire and Yorkshire , between the cotton and the woollen trades , between the coal ...
... continued during its submer- sion , the coal - fields might have shared the same fate as the red sandstone which once covered it ; the hills between Lancashire and Yorkshire , between the cotton and the woollen trades , between the coal ...
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... continued at nearly the same rate as it had done in 1860. The exports of yarn and goods for the first nine months of the year 1861 amounted to 537,969,000 lb. , less only by 16,250,000 lb. than the ex- ports for the same period of the ...
... continued at nearly the same rate as it had done in 1860. The exports of yarn and goods for the first nine months of the year 1861 amounted to 537,969,000 lb. , less only by 16,250,000 lb. than the ex- ports for the same period of the ...
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... continued contact with hundreds of others , in a dis- cipline necessarily so severe and regular as that of a cotton factory . The bodily system becomes feverishly quickened by thus working in a high and moist temperature . Even the ...
... continued contact with hundreds of others , in a dis- cipline necessarily so severe and regular as that of a cotton factory . The bodily system becomes feverishly quickened by thus working in a high and moist temperature . Even the ...
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... continued to the same extent in the middle or the rising generation . Still much improve- ment is needed here . In many , too many cases , the parents , knowing that their children must attend school from the moment they enter the ...
... continued to the same extent in the middle or the rising generation . Still much improve- ment is needed here . In many , too many cases , the parents , knowing that their children must attend school from the moment they enter the ...
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American amount Ashton Ashton-under-Lyne assistance authority bales Blackburn boards of guardians capital cent Central Executive Committee Central Relief Committee charitable clothing condition considerable cotton districts Cotton Famine cotton manufacture cotton supply cotton trade demand difficulty distress duty emigration employment England English equal estimated expenditure extent fact factory facturers Farnall Glossop Government hands Haslingden honour improvement increase India interest labour Lancashire land large number less Liverpool loans Lord Lord Derby machinery Manchester Mansion House Committee manufac manufacturing districts ment mills months Oldham operatives outdoor outdoor relief parish persons Poor Law Board poor-rates population possessed post 8vo pound Preston production profits rate of relief rate-in-aid rateable value ratepayers raw material Ready received relief funds Rochdale shillings spindles Staleybridge Stockport subscriptions suffering sufficient Surat tion towns township unemployed Union Relief Aid Villiers wages week Wigan yarn
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