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Crazy Literature Work Email of the Day 8/28/09

Today’s CLWED comes from Amezquita with the subject line Ght be thought of the dogma of State sovereignty, “th, citing an older magazine entitled: The New England magazine: an illustrated monthly, Volume 2. There’s not really any one author.

Siness. A great impetus was given to manufacturing during the last war with Great Britain, and Mr. Ames availed himself of every opportunity to enlarge his business. The one-horse method of transportation was soon supplanted by six-horse teams; and when, on his retirement from active business in 1844, the firm of Oliver Ames and Sons was formed, the business had grown to large dimensions. Honorable Oakes Ames, eldest son of Oliver and usannah (Angier) Ames, was born in Easton, January 10, 1804; married November 29, 1827, Eveline Orville Gilmore; and entered
heartily into the enterprises inaugurated by his father. Under his
supervision the manufacture of shovels grew into giant proportions. A railroad, constructed to the very doors of the factories, furnished
facilities for transporting to them yearly fifteen hundred tons of iron,
two thousand tons of steel and five thousand tons of coal, and for
carrying away from them more than one hundred and thirty thousand dozen shovels, in the manufacture of which employment had been given to five hundred workmen. The fame of the goods kept pace with the advance of civilization; and on every frontier, in all quarters of the globe, were found as instruments of progress the Ames hovels. It is not so much as the successful manufacturer, however, that Oakes Ames will be remembered, as the master mind through whose perseverance and indomitable energy, and in the face of seemingly

Who knew that British manufacturing was so exciting?!

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