The Silk Industry in America |
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American Institute annual Association of America Auffmordt Awards Boston braids Broadway Broome Street Bros cent China Cloak Trimmings cocoons colors Committee Conant Conn Connecticut Cords Dale dress silks Dress Trimmings duty dyeing England Factory and salesroom Fancy Silks firm France Franklin Fringe Silks Greppo Gum silks handkerchiefs Hartford Horstmann & Sons imported Jacquard Jacquard loom Jacquard weaving John Ryle labor laces Ladies looms machine twist machinery Mansfield manufac manufacture of silk manufactured silks medal and diploma Mills and salesroom mulberry trees multicaulis Northampton officers Organzine Paterson Philadelphia present President production raw silk re-reeled reeling Ribbons scarfs Secretary SETH LOW Sewing Silk Silk and Twist Silk Association silk culture silk industry silk manufacture silk mill silk-worms silver medal Skinner South Manchester spun silk tariff Tassels threads throwster tion Tram Upholstery Trimmings warp weaving white mulberry William William Strange Willimantic woven York
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Page 17 - And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.
Page 147 - SECTION 1. It shall be the duty of the president or, in his absence, of one of the vice-presidents...
Page 189 - ... thousand dollars in value, but the clear annual income of such real and personal estate shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars...
Page 188 - Any three or more persons of full age, citizens of the United States, a majority of whom shall be citizens of this State, who desire to associate themselves for benevolent, charitable, scientific, religious or missionary purposes, may make, sign and acknowledge, before any officer authorized to take the acknowledgments of deeds in this State...
Page 189 - ... no such devise or bequest shall be valid in any will which shall not have been made and executed at least two months before the death of the testator.
Page 214 - Reports and awards shall be based upon inherent and comparative merit. The elements of merit shall be held to include considerations relating to originality, invention, discovery, utility, quality, skill, workmanship, fitness for the purposes intended, adaptation to public wants, economy and cost.
Page 15 - This great prince (Hoang-ti) was desirous that Si-lingchi, his legitimate wife, should contribute to the happiness of his people. He charged her to examine the silk-worms, and to test the practicability of using the thread.
Page 189 - ... holding or receiving any property, real or personal, by virtue of any devise or bequest contained in any last will or testament of any person...
Page 134 - Huguenot, descended from a family exiled by the persecutions which followed the revocation of the Edict of Nantes.
Page 30 - He also introduced in both places, as early as 1762, silk-worm eggs, and in 1763, with the aid of the Rev. Dr. Stiles, afterwards President of Yale College, succeeded in obtaining from the Legislature of the colony an Act, offering ten shillings bounty or premium for every hundred trees which should be planted and preserved in a thrifty condition for three years, and three pence per ounce for all raw silk which the owners of trees should produce from cocoons of their own raising within the State....