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In 1909, Henry Clay Frick, a steel magnate, bought the present-day Iron Rail property so that his daughter Helen could create a vacation home for the mill girls throughout New England.
The city now has paved streets, a splendid " White Way ," five brick and stone schoolhouses, seven churches, a large cotton oil mill, light and ice plant, well built and attractive business blocks, three parks, a fine waterworks and sewage system, four banks, two hotels, the three story brick boarding school for Creek girls and an abundance of natural gas for domestic and commercial purposes.
He paid these " mill girls "( also known as Lowell girls ) lower wages than men, but offered attractive benefits including well-run company boardinghouses with chaperones, cash wages, and benevolent religious and educational activities.
The family of five girls and two boys subsisted on a small piece of land, and Bageshwari also held a low-paying clerical position in a nearby sugar mill. Until the age of 15 he studied at the Gang Baksh Kanodiya High School in Sahpur and then joined junior college at Allahabad, about three hundred kilometers away. He was admitted to the Civil Engineering Department of IIT Kanpur in 1990, graduated in 1994.
When he ventured out into " nearby mill towns, picking up partners on location ," he found that there were White girls who were " mill-town ... lower class " and could dance and move " in the authentic, flowing style ".
1997: Four glamour girls, naked from the waist down, mill about the building for a piece by video artist Vanessa Beecroft.
The system used domestic labor, often referred to as mill girls, who came to the new textile centers from rural towns to earn more money than was possible at home, and to live a cultured life in " the city ".
The mill owners recruited young New England farm girls from the surrounding area to come work the machines at Waltham.
Eventually, cheaper and less organized foreign labor replaced the mill girls.

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Johnny Cash recorded it on his 1975 album Sings Precious Memories, dedicating it to his older brother Jack, who had been killed in a mill accident when they were boys in Dyess, Arkansas.
Lowell and his partners built America's second cotton-to-cloth textile mill at Waltham, Massachusetts, second to the Beverly Cotton Manufactory After his death in 1817, his associates built America's first planned factory town, which they named after him.
In November 2010, Uruguay and Argentina announced they had reached a final agreement for the joint environmental monitoring of the pulp mill.
I hurry in the clothes I have now got on, trousers and ragged jacket ; the bald place upon my head is made by thrusting the corves ; my legs have never swelled, but sisters ' did when they went to mill ; I hurry the corves a mile and more under ground and back ; they weigh 300 cwt.
The lyrebird is capable of imitating almost any sound and they have been recorded mimicking human caused sounds such as a mill whistle to a cross-cut saw, chainsaws, car engines and car alarms, fire alarms, rifle-shots, camera shutters, dogs barking, crying babies, music, and even the human voice.
The mill stones frequently rub against each other resulting in small stone particles chipping off and getting into flour, but they are removed before the flour is sold.
In large part this was due to the failure of Boulton and Watt to make sufficient effort to expand from the factory and mill lighting market which they dominated by 1809 into the street and domestic lighting market.
This leaves Regina free to blackmail her brothers by threatening to report Leo's theft unless they give her 75 % ownership in the cotton mill ( it is in Regina's mind, a fair exchange for the stolen bonds ).
Many methods have been used to move logs from where they were cut to a rail line or directly to a sawmill or paper mill.
The family lived on Church Lane in Pinner for many years ; they later sold the property and moved to a converted mill in Dean, Oxfordshire.
On 2 July 1698 Savery patented an early steam engine, " A new invention for raiseing of water and occasioning motion to all sorts of mill work by the impellent force of fire, which will be of great use and advantage for drayning mines, serveing townes with water, and for the working of all sorts of mills where they have not the benefitt of water nor constant windes.
John manages to eke out a living by operating a lumber mill with the help of his father, and his sons as they grow older.
Later, they operated a much larger grist mill on the river bank at Mill Street, until 1887.
Nestle plans to sell the property they had acquired for the bottling site, which was the site of the defunct McCloud lumber mill ( closed by last mill owners CalCedar ).
Business and political leaders of Potlatch are making a concerted effort to attract companies involved in the firearms industry ; they have set aside for such businesses, located on the former site of the mill.
To power the mill, they built a water wheel, only to discover that the creek over which they had built it went dry every summer: the creek was a " dry prong ".
Today most of the mill buildings are no longer used to full capacity, however, they do offer valuable incubator space to small businesses.
With the corporate name Scott & LaDue, they built a sawmill in 1868 and a grist mill in 1870.
In that year two men, by the name of Mr Bowles and Mr Rogers, came into the valley from Yreka, bringing with them teams of oxen and wagons loaded with mill machinery, which they unloaded at the upper falls of Fall River, and immediately went to work milling timbers in order to build the valley its first mill.
McMinn, who owned of river bottom land near Buchanan, had been trying for some time to buy the mill tract from David and Louisa Cloninger, but they could not agree on the price.
Certainly the Cloningers profited from the transaction, the McMinns got the mill site they had wanted, and Mr. Hoover outwitted the sheriff.

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After this discovery at the mill, the " gold rush " era began and many people came from the east to find fortune.
They moved into a brick row house built for the purpose near the mill, which came to be called the " red house " because it lacked the sooty patina of the other houses.
Joseph was a wool merchant and came to own his own woollen mill.
A small private church dedicated to St. Audrey was built by Lord Sackville Cecil, son of the Marquess of Salisbury, on the site of Olive's Mill in 1889 ; The church and other mill premises came into the possession of the parish in 1908, and since 1925 the former Olive's Mill House has been used as the rectory.
Lockhart came into being about 1900 when the Jackson Lumber Company mill was constructed there.
After the paper mill came to Ashdown, many citizens began to prosper.
This came from the fact that nearly every farmer who came to the mill brought at least two or three dogs along, and also from the fact that Horace Wood had three hounds who loved to devour the corn meal as it left the grinder.
The mill workers, young single women called Mill Girls, generally came from the farm families of New England.
Old Silos in townThe " official " and widely accepted account of how the city came to be known as Fennville, is that an early white settler by the name of Elam Atwater Fenn built a saw mill in the immediate vicinity of the current community.
After the mill came into the ownership of Oliver A. Hyde, the place became known as " Hyde's Mills ".
In 1841, John Stronach and party came to the Manistee area and started a lumber mill.
During the winter of 1855-56, while Sam Lockhart and other settlers had gone from the valley for provisions, local native Americans came into the area and finding only Mr Bowles, Mr Lockhart and Mr Rogers left, made an attack on them, driving them from their homes to the top of Fall River butte, where the three men were massacred, winding up their work by burning their dwellings and destroying all the machinery intended for the mill.
The plan worked, for in April 1880, Mr. E. M. Britts and Mr. S. S. McKinley of the Osage City Mills, Osage, Iowa, came to Verndale to inspect the area and selected a beautiful mill site on the Wing River.
The history of the Turnback Mill begins in 1848 when William Likens, Sr. came to Turnback Creek and built a water mill at the point where the two branches of the stream flow together.
Light industry of a sort came to Humphreys in 1882 with the establishment of the Humphreys Milling Company, a steam-powered flour mill located in a large three-story building.
Solomon Taylor, who came from Schodack about 1791, operated a saw mill in town.
The current name came from mill owner Henry Van Rensselaer.
George Swepson came to town and barges began carrying raw cotton to his mill in Swepsonville and returning with spun products to be shipped by rail.
During this time three more mills came into being Randleman Hosiery Mills, Plaidville Mills, and Marie Antoinette, Randleman Hosiery was the first hosiery mill in Randolph County.
Industries came to town in the late 1890s beginning with Norwood Manufacturing Company, a cotton mill which built the town's first mill and mill village.

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