The American Educator Completely Remodelled and Rewritten, 1919 Painting by Unknown Artist

Identifier: americaneducator05fost (find matches)

Title: The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material

Year: 1919 (1910s)

Authors: Foster, Ellsworth D., ed Hughes, James L. (James Laughlin), 1846-1935

Subjects: Encyclopedias and dictionaries

Publisher: Chicago, Ralph Durham Co.

Contributing Library: Internet Archive

Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

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re also electric railways to Fall River andBrockton, besides steamboat lines to NewYork City and other ports. For over a hundred years it held the dis-tinction of being the greatest whalingportin the world, but since 1860 that industryhas steadily declined. New Bedford is nowa prosperous manufacturing town. Chiefamong the industries are great cotton mills,requiring over 32,000 employes; other fac-tories make silverware, paint, cordage, ma-chinery, oils, etc. The city covers an areaof about twenty square miles. Three bridges,one of them costing $1,500,000 connect thecity with Fairhaven. The educational in-stitutions include a great Textile School;one of the best libraries in the east is here,and the city is the home of the Old Dart-mouth Historical Society, with valuable col-lections of material. The Saint Lukes andthe Emergency are the leading private hos-pitals. Other prominent buildings are a cityhall, a county courthouse, a state armory. MWERUNWICKMA SCOTIA AND PRINCE EDWARD ISLAM)

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1, Fishing Scene 2, Coal Mining 3. Falls and Lumber Mill 4, Fruits and \egetables 5, Iron and Steel Works 6, Terminal Docks of the International Railway at Halifax NEWBERN 2523 NEW BRUNSWICK a Federal, building, the Merchants Bankand Odd Fellows and Masonic buildings. The place was settled in 1652, was in-corporated as a town in 1787 and charteredas a city in 1847. During the Revolutionmany privateers were sent out, and the townbecame a storehouse for captured prizes.September 5, 1778, it was attacked by theBritish, captured and almost all destroyed.The first ship built in New Bedford was oneof those from which the tea was thrown intoBoston harbor. Population, 1910, 96,652;in 1917, 121,622 (Federal estimate). NEWBERN, nuhurn, N. C, the countyseat of Craven County, 107 miles southeastof Raleigh, on the Neuse and the Trent riv-ers, and on the Atlantic Coast Line and theNorfolk & Western railroads. It has steam-ship connection with other coast cities, con-tains hosiery, knitting, cot

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