The Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review, Volume 47William B. Dana F. Hunt, 1862 |
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... sold to princes at a great price , but it is now considered to have been a simple compound of bitumen , pitch and sulphur . There is another place as famous for its profuse supplies of Petroleum and Naptha , as Zante or Bakoo . Like ...
... sold to princes at a great price , but it is now considered to have been a simple compound of bitumen , pitch and sulphur . There is another place as famous for its profuse supplies of Petroleum and Naptha , as Zante or Bakoo . Like ...
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... sold the Petroleum to the new settlers as a specific for rheumatism and various other affections . The white people called it Seneca oil , after the tribe who chiefly used it as an article of barter , and considered it a rare and very ...
... sold the Petroleum to the new settlers as a specific for rheumatism and various other affections . The white people called it Seneca oil , after the tribe who chiefly used it as an article of barter , and considered it a rare and very ...
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... sold in ounce bottles at a high price . It is a strange fact that attention was first directed to the commercial value of Petroleum by the progress f science in another direction . The distillation of bituminous coal and shales had been ...
... sold in ounce bottles at a high price . It is a strange fact that attention was first directed to the commercial value of Petroleum by the progress f science in another direction . The distillation of bituminous coal and shales had been ...
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... sold in the market , at a time when capital has ceased to accumulate in the country , and is becoming constantly deteriorated . There is another delusion which has yet to be dispelled . It is that which seems to be common to many ...
... sold in the market , at a time when capital has ceased to accumulate in the country , and is becoming constantly deteriorated . There is another delusion which has yet to be dispelled . It is that which seems to be common to many ...
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... sold abroad , & c . The general result is , therefore , that more than 60 per cent of the goods imported in the last 40 years , were paid for by that black labor which is jeopardized by the present war , and , as a consequence , more ...
... sold abroad , & c . The general result is , therefore , that more than 60 per cent of the goods imported in the last 40 years , were paid for by that black labor which is jeopardized by the present war , and , as a consequence , more ...
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aforesaid amount assessor average bales banks bill bonds bushels canals capital cents per pound centum ad valorem circulation coal collector commerce cotton debt demand demand notes deposits distillation district duty East Saginaw England Erie Canal exceeding exports feet fifty cents five per centum foreign further enacted gold hundred dollars HUNGARIAN WINES imports inches increase India interest Internal Revenue iron issue July June Lake Ontario lakes legal tender less license Loans Majesty's government manufacture ment merchandise miles Missouri River naphtha notes Oswego canals otherwise provided paid paper money payment Petroleum population port present produced quantity railroad and telegraph returns river Saginaw salt Secretary ship specie spirits stamp stamp duty thereof tion tobacco tons Total trade Treasury Union Pacific Railroad United United States notes vessels York
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