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Title: Fall River, Massachusetts, a publication of personal points pertaining to a city of opportunity
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Fall River trade and industry association. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Fall River (Mass.)
Publisher: (Fall river) Fall River trade and industry association
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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an-going steamers. Possessing the best land locked harbor upon the Atlantic coast, A birds-eye view of beautiful and historic landscape. Superb educational institutions for the youth. A vast area of ideal home and manufacturing sites. Sound banks and a comfortable climate all the year around. The city that adjoins the worlds greatest summer resorts;links Massachusetts and Rhode Island ; connects Massachusettswith New York, the South and the West. The home of the famous Fall River Line. The beauty of its steamers and the magnificence of theirequipment command the admiration of the traveling public. The home, hunting and fishing grounds of famous AmericanIndians. The largest cotton manufacturing center in America. The home of the most skilled and law abiding operatives in theworld. City of successes ! Grand is your location! Majestic areyour mills ! Nature has greatly endowed you ! History has contributed to-your renown ! The energy of man has made you great amongst textile cities I 114
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FALL RT^^ER Leads America inj(Manufacture of CottonJ^Cloth, Largest city in Southern Massachusetts, with population of120,000. One hundred and four cotton mills, built of brick and granite,containing approximately 4,000,000 spindles and employing37,000 operatives, weaving nearly 20 miles of cotton cloth a day,including fine and coarse goods and ginghams, besides spinning-yarn and thread. An investment exceeding $50,000,000, distrib-uting $275,000 weekly in wages. Two calico print works, having 4) printing machines, withcapacity of 6,000,000 yards per week. Large hat, piano and shoe factories and many narrow fabricindustries. Eastern terminal of Fall River Line, world renowned for equipment, spaciousness and beauty of decoration and construction. Port of call for Merchants & Miners Line, with direct communi-cation with Philadelphia and Southern points. On Old Colony division of New York, New Haven & Hartfordrailroad, 50 miles from Boston. Unsurpassed harbor, 18 miles inland fro

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