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...recently, when James Hargraves used the first cylinder cards and the spinning jenny. Now a couple of boys at the end of a spinning mule can do the work of five or six hundred women with the old-fashioned wheel. The speaker reviewed the introduction and increase of the woolen industry in this country, and said that the woolen industry of the country may be said to have begun with this century. Mr. Hazard described very minutely the process of woolen manufacturing, and illustrated his remarks by various objects used in woolen making. There are three kinds of woolen cloths...
Although the number of woolen workers in this country is relatively quite small, the woolen industry supplies a want that is second only to that of food. The lecturer referred to the present tariff regulations and asserted that he did not consider them necessary to the welfare of the woolen industry. He argued at some length against the protection tariff, and claimed that the general competition of the world will find where a staple can be manufactured cheapest before mere local competition and experience show that the tariff is prejudicial to the woolen industry. The speaker glanced at the labor...
Lost - In Fresh Pond, a woolen glove. The finder will greatly oblige the owner by returning to 16 Hilton...
Lost-In Fresh Pond, a woolen glove. The finder will greatly oblige the owner by returning to 16 Hilton...