Word: woolens
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. Andrew Adie, 61, native of Scotland, President of the Earnshaw Knitting Co., director of many New England woolen mills and knitting companies; in Chestnut Hill, Mass...
Firms which have not sliced wages are notably the makers of fine draperies, bedspreads, laces, frills, etc., in New Bedford and North Adams, Mass., the vast Naumkeaz Steam Cotton Co. in Salem, Mass., and others in Rhode Island, Connecticut and middle Massachusetts. The woolen and silk mills, although in no booming condition, have not yet pared pay envelopes...
...electricity scheme is proceeding at enormous expense. When completed the Free State will have a large, cheap source of power and there will then, so say observers, be no reason why the industrialists should not meet competition scientifically by modernizing their machinery, much needed in the cotton, poplin and woolen industries. Moves are afoot to exploit scientifically coal and other minerals, and recently a Belgian syndicate received a $5.000,000 subsidy to grow beets for the sugar industry...
This unfortunate woman who sits in the sideshow of Ringling Brothers "between Fat Lady and Armless Wonder" and "affects white lace hats, woolen mittens and high laced shoes" has a story which is far from mirth-provoking. Could it have been written up for you by O. Henry, it would have provoked tears rather than laughter. The facts are as follows...
...many a "quid" (pound Sterling) in British ugly matches; traveled thousands of miles with the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey circus, in whose sideshow she sat between Carrie Holt, "fat, fair and frivolous," and the Armless Wonder. Four times a mother, Mrs. Bevan used to affect white lace hats, woolen mittens, high laced shoes...