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...fair sized audience gathered in Sever 11 last evening to hear Mr. Thomas Pray speak on the "Cotton Industry." The lecturer opened with an account of the early history of this manufacture. In 1787 the first cotton mill was started in Beverly. At that time to separate the lint from the seeds was the hardest work. This difficulty was removed by the invention of the cotton gin in 1793. About 1810 power looms were put into general use. The speaker then continued to briefly trace the history of the industry down to the present time. During...
Harvard Finance Club. The Cotton Industry. Thomas Pray, Jr., Esq. Sever...
...though the pace was something like forty-six when they passed Butchertown, the victim sawed serenely away and the bowman even imageined that he splashed less than any man in the boat. When they finally drew up to the float, and while the crew were panting for wind, spitting cotton and wiping their dripping faces, the "passenger" looked around, with a childlike smile upon his unflushed face, and softly remarked...
...Club. The last three form a series intended to give the present position of the three great manufacturing industries in the United States. March 21, Edward Atkinson, Esw., What makes the Rate of Wages? April 10, Prof. T. Sterry Hunt, The Iron Industry. April 17, Thomas Pray, Jr., The Cotton Industry. April 28, Roland Hazard, The Wooden Industry...
Students on the west side of the college buildings are busy stuffing the cracks in the windows with cotton. [Ex.] Yale seems to be suffering from a cold...