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Title: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Subjects: Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company
Publisher: (Baltimore, Baltimore and Ohio Railroad)
Contributing Library: University of Maryland, College Park
Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS Members and Sloan Foundation

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en look at tlieworks. Iliere you see tlie pinnacle of watch niakinir.You understand how this wonder timepiece is adju-liHl tole very second. Burlington Watch Co. 19th Street, and Marshall Blvd. \Dept. 7436 Chic.go. 111. ♦^ Please send me (without oblis-^atioii iind ^prepaid) your free boolc on watches iwith full explanation of your cash or52.30 a month offer on the Burlington Watch. U. .S. Navy ha< I he Burlii—everi submarine as w el )n Watch aboard. This in^- \ A\hen you read it. You will be able to steer clear of V the double-priced watches a\ Inch are no better. Send ^ the coupon today for the watch book and oin- offer. \ Burlington Watch Co. 19th St. & Marshall Blvd., Dept. 7435 , Chicago, III. fitd.se rneruion our mngdztnc vntn uriting nrlvertisers Baltimore AND OhioEmployes Magazine
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mm ** The third great cause cf the growth of the moderncity is the railway, which makes it easy to transportpopulation from country to city and, which is muchmore important, easy to transport food, thus makingit possible to feed any number of millions massed atone point. * Because men are social beings, cities have alwaysbeen as large as they could well be. But until thenineteenth century it was difficult to supply a large city with food, water and fuel Famines occurred when grain was rotting on the ground only afew leagues away. The application of steam to trans-portation now makes it practicable to transport foodfrom the other side of the world. Thus a tendencytoward aggregation which has always existed has nowbeen liberated and the natural restriction to the growthof cities has been removed. **The time is certainly coming, and at no distant day,when a majority of the population will live in cities.This is already true of fifteen states, in eight of whichthe urban population is more

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