Crusader in Crinoline: The Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe |
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... began , about 350 steamboats had been built , largely on the Ohio River and sixty - eight of them in Cincinnati , which at the beginning of the 1830's was launching new ones at the rate of eight or ten a year . Seven boiler plants on ...
... began , about 350 steamboats had been built , largely on the Ohio River and sixty - eight of them in Cincinnati , which at the beginning of the 1830's was launching new ones at the rate of eight or ten a year . Seven boiler plants on ...
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... began to fill the Federal Street house with daily gratifications . How could a plain Brunswick housewife , dicing pota- toes and onions in her kitchen for a chowder , remain precisely calm when her husband brought from the postoffice ...
... began to fill the Federal Street house with daily gratifications . How could a plain Brunswick housewife , dicing pota- toes and onions in her kitchen for a chowder , remain precisely calm when her husband brought from the postoffice ...
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... began to turn out three hundred weapons a day - to fill Southern orders , it was said . Lights began to burn all night in the Sharpe rifle factory . Ships in Southern harbours were unloading consignments of the new French arm , the ...
... began to turn out three hundred weapons a day - to fill Southern orders , it was said . Lights began to burn all night in the Sharpe rifle factory . Ships in Southern harbours were unloading consignments of the new French arm , the ...
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