The Making of America, Volume 3Robert Marion La Follette, William Matthews Handy, Charles Higgins Making of America Company, 1906 - Inventors |
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... Michigan , with extensive systems of both canals and railroads . Kentucky and Ten- nessee devoted considerable attention to the building of turn- pike roads , and Kentucky especially to the improvement of the navigation of her rivers ...
... Michigan , with extensive systems of both canals and railroads . Kentucky and Ten- nessee devoted considerable attention to the building of turn- pike roads , and Kentucky especially to the improvement of the navigation of her rivers ...
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... Michigan ; the Louisville & Portland canal around the falls of the Ohio ; a canal around the Muscle Shoals of the ... Michigan undertook to build two lines across the state to connect Lake Erie with Lake Michigan . Illinois planned and ...
... Michigan ; the Louisville & Portland canal around the falls of the Ohio ; a canal around the Muscle Shoals of the ... Michigan undertook to build two lines across the state to connect Lake Erie with Lake Michigan . Illinois planned and ...
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... Michigan canal at La Salle with Cairo on the Ohio river , with numerous branch lines to the east and west , reaching all parts of the state . There was one line each in Indiana and Ken- tucky , from Madison on the Ohio to La Fayette on ...
... Michigan canal at La Salle with Cairo on the Ohio river , with numerous branch lines to the east and west , reaching all parts of the state . There was one line each in Indiana and Ken- tucky , from Madison on the Ohio to La Fayette on ...
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... Michigan and Maine , by state laws directed to the same end , and was quickly followed by like laws in one half the other states , including New York , Ohio , Indiana , Illinois , Wisconsin , Iowa and the west gen- erally . Thus , so ...
... Michigan and Maine , by state laws directed to the same end , and was quickly followed by like laws in one half the other states , including New York , Ohio , Indiana , Illinois , Wisconsin , Iowa and the west gen- erally . Thus , so ...
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... Michigan and Ohio , of which there were twelve where the Standard Oil com- pany had competition , and eighteen where it had the local market all to itself . In the former towns the price varied from 4 to 6 cents per gallon , whereas in ...
... Michigan and Ohio , of which there were twelve where the Standard Oil com- pany had competition , and eighteen where it had the local market all to itself . In the former towns the price varied from 4 to 6 cents per gallon , whereas in ...
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