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After the Superior Portland Cement Company plant was built in Baker in 1908, it was decided to merge the two towns.
They both arrived in Skagit County in 1908 and shortly thereafter, Kate was hired by the Superior Portland Cement Company to manage their telephone exchange.
Nell ran the tugboat for the mill-operation and Kate ran the fishing boat operation on the weekends, allowing them to still run the telephone company during the week. The Quakenbush sisters, Nell and Kate, circa 1930's at Lake Shannon with rock quarry operated by Superior Portland Cement in the background
Of course, the real story was not as fantastic as the fictional radio drama all that had occurred was that the Superior Portland cement company's electrical sub-station suffered a short-circuit with a flash of brilliant light, and all the town's lights went dark.
The Portland Beavers of the Class-AA Pacific Coast League ( PCL ) drafted Bancroft from Superior for the 1912 season.
* The Spokane, Portland and Seattle, by Charles and Dorothy Wood ( Seattle, Washington: Superior Press ), 1974
II and III ( Seattle, WA: Tartu Publications, 1984 and 1989 ); Lucile Saunders McDonald, The Lake Washington Story, ( Seattle, WA: Superior Publishing Co., 1979 ); Brandt Morgan, Enjoying Seattle's Parks ( Seattle, WA: Greenwood Publications, 1979 ); Harry W. Higman and Earl J. Larrison, Union Bay: The Life of a City Marsh, ( Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1951 ); J. Willis Sayre, This City of Ours ( Seattle, WA: Seattle School District No. 1, 1936 ); Sophie Frye Bass, Pig-Tail Days in Old Seattle ( Portland, OR: Binfords & Mort, 1937 ); Roger Sale, Seattle: Past to Present ( Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 1976 ).

Portland and Cement
Other sources of information include the National Concrete Masonry Association, 38 South Dearborn Street, Chicago, Ill., the Portland Cement Association, 33 West Grand Avenue, Chicago, Ill., and the Structural Clay Products Association, Washington, D.C..
Products such as PLC ( Portland Limestone Cement ), which incorporate limestone into the mix, are being tested.
The resulting hard substance, called ' clinker ', is then ground with a small amount of gypsum into a powder to make ' Ordinary Portland Cement ', the most commonly used type of cement ( often referred to as OPC ).
* Javed I. Bhatty, F. MacGregor Miller, Steven H. Kosmatka ; editors: Innovations in Portland Cement Manufacturing, SP400, Portland Cement Association, Skokie, Illinois, USA, 2004, ISBN 0-89312-234-3
* Portland Cement Association ( US )
Phonograph cabinet built with Edison Portland Cement Company | Edison cement, 1912.
* Edison Portland Cement Company
* October 21, 1824 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland Cement.
* October 21 Joseph Aspdin patents Portland Cement.
Portland cement ( often referred to as OPC, from Ordinary Portland Cement ) is the most common type of cement in general use around the world because it is a basic ingredient of concrete, mortar, stucco and most non-specialty grout.
The Association of German Cement Manufacturers issued a standard on Portland cement in 1878.
The LHA convinced industry of their self-interest and was able to arrange donations of materials from the Portland Cement Association.
The of upland pasture were donated by Portland Cement to mark European Conservation Year.
The National Portland Cement Company Ltd was formed in 1920.
Its success due to: the incorporation of nearby Birmingham and the beginning of iron ore production there ; the building of the Georgia Pacific Railway from Birmingham to Atlanta ; and the construction of a Portland Cement manufacturing plant in 1906.
Empire was founded in 1923 ; in that year miners formed a tent city while mining a claim originally established by the Pacific Portland Cement Company in 1910.
Companies like Allied Signal and Alpha Portland Cement did build in town, but even so the boom days were now over.
By 2004, both Alpha Portland Cement and Allied Signal were gone, and Ironton had shrunk to the point where there were fewer people living in the whole county than had lived in the city of Ironton 110 years before.
* Holcim Inc. ( Portland Cement )
The Atlas Portland Cement Company was based there, until it was closed in 1982, due largely to foreign competition.
The Atlas Portland Cement Company plant closed in 1982, but city residents many of them former Atlas employees or their descendants — still identify strongly with the company and its history.

Portland and at
Her young British lawyer, James Dunlop, pleaded that she was sorely needed at her Portland home by her widowed mother, 80, her maiden aunt, also 80 and bedridden for 20 years, and her uncle, 76, who once ran a candy shop.
`` Much of the navy's future depends upon her '', an American naval announcement said on the Skipjack's first arrival in British waters in August, 1959, for exhibition to selected high officers at Portland underwater research station.
Funeral for William Joseph Brett, 1926 NE 50th Ave., who died Thursday in Portland, will be Monday 1 p.m. at the Riverview Abbey.
A 16-year-old Portland businessman and his Junior Achievement company, have been judged the `` Company of the Year '' in national competition completed this week at Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.
Atta ( blue shirt ) and Omari at Portland International Jetport on 9 / 11
They held dance attendance records at Jantzen Beach in Portland, Oregon ; Santa Monica, California, and at the Oakland ( California ) Auditorium, where they drew 19, 000 people in two nights.
A number of cleanup efforts are currently underway, including Superfund projects at Portland Harbor, Hanford, and Lake Roosevelt.
In 1980, Love ran away to Portland where she began working illegally as an exotic dancer, and occasionally as a DJ at nightclubs.
She intermittently took classes at Portland State University studying English, as well as San Francisco State University and the San Francisco Art Institute, where she took a film class taught by George Kuchar and starred in one of his short films.
When Love was 17, she began an on-and-off relationship with Rozz Rezabek of the band Theatre of Sheep after the two met at The Metropolis in Portland, Oregon, where Love occasionally worked as a DJ.
The couple lived at Dudmaston Hall, Shropshire ( where Babbage engineered the central heating system ), before moving to 5 Devonshire Street, Portland Place, London.
* Currying Schonfinkelling at the Portland Pattern Repository
But its long curing time of at least a month made it unpopular after World War One in the construction of highways and bridges and many states and construction firms turned to the use of Portland cement.
Portland cement blends are often available as inter-ground mixtures from cement manufacturers, but similar formulations are often also mixed from the ground components at the concrete mixing plant.
However, silica fume is more usually added to Portland cement at the concrete mixer.
The event began mid-afternoon on Thanksgiving eve, November 24, 1971, at Portland International Airport in Portland, Oregon.
* Honorary Doctor of Laws, and Commencement Speaker at Lewis and Clark Law School, Portland in May 2005
* 1889 The first long-distance electric power transmission line in the United States is completed, running between a generator at Willamette Falls and downtown Portland, Oregon.
Abbadie had also written, at the request of the king, Histoire de la dernière Conspiration d ' Angleterre, 1696, a history of the conspiracy of 1696, which was reprinted in Holland and translated into English, and for which the Earl of Portland and Secretary Sir William Trumbull placed original documents at the author's disposal.
MacLean taught literature at the University of Maine and creative writing at the Free University of Portland.
In canoes, they descended the mountains by the Clearwater River, the Snake River, and the Columbia River, past Celilo Falls and past what is now Portland, Oregon at the meeting of the Willamette and Columbia Rivers.

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