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... Industrial Significance of Recent Immigration , by the United States Immigration Commission 264 25. The Annual Earnings of Immigrant Families , by the United States Immigration Commission • 315 26. Occupations of the First and Second ...
... Industrial Significance of Recent Immigration , by the United States Immigration Commission 264 25. The Annual Earnings of Immigrant Families , by the United States Immigration Commission • 315 26. Occupations of the First and Second ...
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... industry and the professions and dedi- cated exclusively to wifehood and motherhood ; whether they are to work outside the home till married , then to break their eco- nomic and industrial habits and relations squarely off and retire to ...
... industry and the professions and dedi- cated exclusively to wifehood and motherhood ; whether they are to work outside the home till married , then to break their eco- nomic and industrial habits and relations squarely off and retire to ...
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... industrial conditions of the Southern states . The South is by no means a unit economically , but up to the present ... industrial , and as the fate of the negro in the North depends in no small measure on industrial opportunity , the ...
... industrial conditions of the Southern states . The South is by no means a unit economically , but up to the present ... industrial , and as the fate of the negro in the North depends in no small measure on industrial opportunity , the ...
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... industry would necessarily be slow ; and during this time , as population would regularly keep pace with the increasing produce , it would rarely happen that a great degree of knowledge and industry would have to operate at once upon ...
... industry would necessarily be slow ; and during this time , as population would regularly keep pace with the increasing produce , it would rarely happen that a great degree of knowledge and industry would have to operate at once upon ...
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... industry continue in vigor , and a sufficient part of that industry is directed to agriculture , we need be under no apprehensions of a deficient population ; and nothing perhaps would tend so strongly to excite a spirit of industry and ...
... industry continue in vigor , and a sufficient part of that industry is directed to agriculture , we need be under no apprehensions of a deficient population ; and nothing perhaps would tend so strongly to excite a spirit of industry and ...
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Page 444 - By marriage the husband and wife are one person in law ; that is the very being or legal existence of the woman is suspended during the marriage, or at least is incorporated and consolidated into that of the husband...
Page 581 - Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands ; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives ; while they behold your chaste conversation coupled with fear.
Page 578 - For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and cleave to his wife; 8 And they twain shall be one flesh: so then they are no more twain, but one flesh. 9 What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Page 579 - Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: yet I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be faithful.
Page 579 - For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.
Page 762 - A ship lost at sea for many days suddenly sighted a friendly vessel. From the mast of the unfortunate vessel was seen a signal, "Water, water; we die of thirst!" The answer from the friendly vessel at once came back, "Cast down your bucket where you are.
Page 257 - ... any person whose ticket or passage is paid for with the money of another or who is assisted by others to come, unless it is affirmatively and satisfactorily shown on special inquiry that such person does not belong to one of the foregoing excluded classes...
Page 764 - ... that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized. It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of these privileges. The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house.
Page 405 - An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States...
Page 374 - States, he shall cause such alien within the period of three years after landing or entry therein to be taken into custody and returned to the country whence he came...