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John C. Winston Company, 1927 - City and town life - 252 pages

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Page 110 - There is an old saying that a stitch in time saves nine, but a message of this sort, we may very well suppose, can be taken with a grain of salt.
Page 240 - ... from the duty of securely fencing in its track; for wherever a railroad company can build and maintain a fence to Inclose Its track without Interfering with the rights of the public, or with the free use of private property or of its own property, then It Is bound to maintain the fence, whether it be in the country, in a village, In a town, or In a city.
Page 69 - Make another list of things that you think could be done to make your community a better place in which to live.
Page 49 - A pamphlet containing fifteen splendid health playlets, admirably adapted to school use, may be obtained for 15 cents from the Child Health Organization of America, 370 Seventh Avenue, New York City.
Page 107 - After this the juice is run through pipes and vats, boilers and whirlers, purifiers and dryers, until it comes out at the other end of the factory, as sacks of nice brown sugar.
Page 234 - Tell about ways in which we keep fish until we are ready to eat them?
Page 192 - They put half of them on one side and half on the other, so that the ship would not tip.
Page 93 - It had a general store, a post office, a railroad station, a...

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