Fibre & Fabric: A Record of American Textile Industries in the Cotton and Woolen Trade, Volume 51887 - Textile fabrics |
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Address advertiser Agent American annum boiler boss Boston Boston Herald Burr Pickers CARD carder cassimeres cent cloth cold chisel colors Company Conn COTTON AND WOOLEN cotton factory cotton mill cylinder designer DOUBLE STEAM dyeing dyer Elizabethport engine England FACTS WHITTLED Fall River fancy cassimeres Fibre and Fabric filling finisher first-class GEORGE DRAPER give hand harness Improved inches John kinds Knights of Labor knitting labor Lemaire Feeder looms Lowell machine machinery manufacturers Mass mule once each month overseer paper PATENT Phila picks pieces references revolutions per minute Saturday scour Send shaft shuttle soap spindles spinner spinning spool steam Street superintendent Supt textile threads tion trade twist ventilating Wade's Fibre wages warp weave weaver week weight wool Woolen Mills Woonsocket XX XX XX yards yarn
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