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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... position of the district . The elevation of most of the towns in this part of the kingdom is very considerable . Even Manchester is 120 feet above the sea - level ; Bolton is 200 feet higher than the Cotton Metropolis , and superior ...
... position of the district . The elevation of most of the towns in this part of the kingdom is very considerable . Even Manchester is 120 feet above the sea - level ; Bolton is 200 feet higher than the Cotton Metropolis , and superior ...
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... position compared with that of an idle man in a Lancashire town , where for the most part , master and man , millionnaire and the poorest of his hands , eat to live , and live to work , ten hours a day for five or six days of the week ...
... position compared with that of an idle man in a Lancashire town , where for the most part , master and man , millionnaire and the poorest of his hands , eat to live , and live to work , ten hours a day for five or six days of the week ...
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... position as our own hand - loom weavers , professors of an art which has long since been distanced by invention . Their occupation must go where those of the stage - coachmen and the Great Moguls have gone be- fore . The irresistible ...
... position as our own hand - loom weavers , professors of an art which has long since been distanced by invention . Their occupation must go where those of the stage - coachmen and the Great Moguls have gone be- fore . The irresistible ...
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... position . In Nelson Square , Bolton , near where he was born , a statue has been now raised to the man who gave to the world this machine , which in itself united the elongating and twisting principles with that of the drawing rollers ...
... position . In Nelson Square , Bolton , near where he was born , a statue has been now raised to the man who gave to the world this machine , which in itself united the elongating and twisting principles with that of the drawing rollers ...
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... position ; and this fact , taken to- gether with the peculiar luxuriance of Sea Island cotton , seems to prove that a saline atmosphere is necessary to produce the finest qualities . Certain it is that Sea Island cotton is unequalled in ...
... position ; and this fact , taken to- gether with the peculiar luxuriance of Sea Island cotton , seems to prove that a saline atmosphere is necessary to produce the finest qualities . Certain it is that Sea Island cotton is unequalled in ...
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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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