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  • She was built on the shores of the river in 1888, at [[Athabasca Landing]], the end of a long portage from [[Edmonton]]. ...to the [[Grand Rapids (Athabasca River)|Grand Rapids]] from her launch in 1888 until 1897.<ref name=ManitobaArchivesAthabasca/> In 1897 the decision was
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  • She was built on the shores of the river in 1888, at [[Athabasca Landing]], the end of a long portage from [[Edmonton]]. ...to the [[Grand Rapids (Athabasca River)|Grand Rapids]] from her launch in 1888 until 1897.<ref name=ManitobaArchivesAthabasca/> In 1897 the decision was
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  • ...firm was incorporated in 1886. Its original shipyards were in Toronto. In 1888 favourable land grants prompted a move to [[Owen Sound]], which was then an | quote = The Iron Works only two existing ships in Toronto are the Trillium (built in 1913, which still ferry's passengers
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  • The three latter acronym '''CGS''' was applied to '''Canadian Government Ships''', prior to the creation of the [[Royal Canadian Navy]], and the [[Canadia |+ Some ships that bore the ''CGS'' prefix
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  • ...elected as a [[Republican Party (United States), history |Republican]] in 1888, but defeated by [[Grover Cleveland]] in 1892. He was a representative pol ...eterans was to be a major factor in winning the presidential nomination in 1888.
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  • ...story.<ref name="MAlist">{{cite web |title=Hudson’s Bay Company Archives – Ships’ Histories |url=https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/hbca/ships_histories.h ...| [[Athabasca (HBC vessel, 1888)|''Athabasca'']] || Stern wheel steamer || 1888 || 1897 || Interior || [https://www.gov.mb.ca/chc/archives/_docs/hbca/ships
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  • ...cers. A 10% discount on the tax was offered on items imported in American ships, so that the American merchant marine would be supported. {{Image|~PROTECT.jpg|left|400px|Democratic cartoon in 1888 says Republican Party (policeman) is not protecting America, as monopolists
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  • ...York Central]]. In 1886 he reorganized the Philadelphia & Reading, and in 1888 the [[Chesapeake and Ohio Railway|Chesapeake & Ohio]]. After Congress passe ...ttempting to dominate not only steel but also the construction of bridges, ships, railroad cars and rails, wire, nails, and a host of other products. With U
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  • ...later "radio". Hertz published the results of his discoveries beginning in 1888, and his death in 1894 resulted in reviews of his earlier work, which in tu ...as set up, to transmit news summaries overnight to subscribing ocean-going ships, which used these reports to supplement their daily passenger newspapers.
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  • ...later "radio". Hertz published the results of his discoveries beginning in 1888, and his death in 1894 resulted in reviews of his earlier work, which in tu ...as set up, to transmit news summaries overnight to subscribing ocean-going ships, which used these reports to supplement their daily passenger newspapers.
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  • ...the 1830s, when its small harbor could no longer handle the large clipper ships that were now based in Boston. Salem merchants then turned their fortunes t ...y of Boston, Including Suffolk County, Massachusetts, 1630-1880'' 4 vols. (1888) [http://books.google.com/books?id=_UAOAAAAIAAJ&printsec=toc&dq=Winsor,+Jus
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  • * 1866: Horticulturist Parker Earle ships strawberries in iced boxes by rail from southern Illinois to Chicago on the ...n the fruit shipping business. The company owns 60 ice-cooled rail cars by 1888, and 600 by 1891.
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  • ...or the pumps at a mine, while mobile engines were put into locomotives and ships (where they turned paddles or, later, propellers). The use of water power w ...ref> Frank Peel, ''The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists & Plugdrawers'' (1888) [http://books.google.com/books?id=22nbOVVO4WsC&pg=PA9&dq=intitle:luddites&
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  • ...or the pumps at a mine, while mobile engines were put into locomotives and ships (where they turned paddles or, later, propellers). The use of water power w ...ref> Frank Peel, ''The Risings of the Luddites, Chartists & Plugdrawers'' (1888) [http://books.google.com/books?id=22nbOVVO4WsC&pg=PA9&dq=intitle:luddites&
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  • ...th a capacity to produce approximately 2,000 tons of pig metal per day. In 1888, Carnegie bought the rival Homestead Steel Works, which included an extensi ...ned, "We're not in business to make steel, we're not in business to build ships, we're not in business to erect buildings. We're in business to make money.
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  • ...n biographies of ''Thomas Hart Benton'' (1887) and ''Gouverneur Morris'' (1888) are considered superficial.<ref> Pringle (1931) p 116 </ref> His major a In the 1888 presidential election, Roosevelt campaigned for [[Benjamin Harrison]] in th
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  • ...on was the nation's leading supplier of gear drives for military and cargo ships, while Allen-Bradley produced motor controls and electronic components for ...salt and made a healthy profit, but the risk were high. The company's five ships each made about ten trips per month during the 1900 shipping season. At a t
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