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Forty years ago there was not a flour - mill in Michigan , and the wheat - fields could be counted upon the fingers . Last year the receipts in the city of Detroit alone were nearly a million barrels of flour , and a million and a half ...
Forty years ago there was not a flour - mill in Michigan , and the wheat - fields could be counted upon the fingers . Last year the receipts in the city of Detroit alone were nearly a million barrels of flour , and a million and a half ...
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Michigan is already the fourth , perhaps the third , wool - growing State in the Union , and has along her streams a fair proportion of woollen- factories . There are other industries of which we might speak , -the great mining ...
Michigan is already the fourth , perhaps the third , wool - growing State in the Union , and has along her streams a fair proportion of woollen- factories . There are other industries of which we might speak , -the great mining ...
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enough to show what marvellous wealth Michigan has in her forests , and to account for the fact that her supply is now the main reliance of all the Northern States , exceeding all that Maine and Canada have to give .
enough to show what marvellous wealth Michigan has in her forests , and to account for the fact that her supply is now the main reliance of all the Northern States , exceeding all that Maine and Canada have to give .
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LAURENCE Sterne | 1 |
METEORIC SHOWERS | 38 |
THE RELIGIOUS REFORM MOVEMENT IN ITALY | 51 |
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