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Title: Lamb's textile industry of the United States, embracing biographical sketches of prominment men and a historical résumé of the progress of textile manufacture from the earliest records to the present time;
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Brown, John Howard, 1840-1917 Foster, E. Everton Norris, Edith Mary, b. 1858
Subjects: Textile industry -- United States Industrialists
Publisher: Boston, Mass., James H. Lamb company
Contributing Library: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Digitizing Sponsor: Claire T. Carney Library, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

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der tohold up! The mill was fifty feet long, of brick. Nine old women pickedthe seeds of the cotton, and the cotton was cleaned by men who laid it ona network of cod-line, and whipped it with long sticks. Further in his letter Mr. Herrick thus describes the machinery: Thelast drawing cans were taken into the rear of the billy, a machine that wentby hand and made the roping, and operated something like the jenny, except-ing the speed of the spindles, which was much slower, and the cops mademuch larger, and, when dofifed, were put on to the wooden spindles orskewers, to set up into the rack of the jenny. There was a slanting feedcloth in the rear of the billy, the lower part of which was a little above thetop of the cans, on which the drawing was lapped and rolled by the hand tojoin it. The jenny had forty spindles, and worked very much like the old-fashioned woolen jenny. The cops were doffed from the spindle as theyare now from the mule. If for warp, they were twisted harder and taken
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^ i £ ■Vl a; s w «^ t 3 111 It 1 >■:! E N ■> \. -c 1 :^ 1 OF THE UNITED STATES 409 to other wheels to be wound on spools; if for filhng, it was twisted slackand taken to the winder of bobbins for the shuttle I never heard of the spring-shuttle. They were called the fly-shuttle at the old factory. The box for the shuttle was put on to the lathethat hung from the top of the loom, and had pickers, like those of the powerlooms. The weaver had a handle in his right hand with strings to eachpicker; when he swung his lathe back, he threw his shuttle through thewoof into the opposite box; and for any common goods he brought his lathe against the filling but once Corduroys, velvets, thicksetts, and jeans, were manufactured at the old brick mill. The building, the first put up in America as a cotton mill, waserected on Bass River on a lot on the road from Mr. Olivers Meet-ing House to Beverly Ferry, which they had purchased from Josiah Batch-elder, Esq., and Hannah, his wife, by d

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