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And Again H bat It Has Not.Massillon supports four wholesale houses and ten cigar factories.—Alliance Review.Yes; and its coal interests are valued at a million ot dollars, its stone and clay interests at rearly as much more. It has one establishment with seven hundred men on the pay robs, and a capital of a million dollars. It has iron works, glass works, bridge works, stove works, organ works, pump works, paper mills, Hour mills, big. little and middle sized works. It is the best wheat market in this part of tb* country. Its freight tonnage is heavier than that of any town between Pittsburg and Chicago. It is provided with eighteen miles of water mains lighted bv electricity and expects to be heated by steam, if Mr. Sailer continues his being. It has two miles of sewers and is ready for more, and is tak rng a breathing spell before going intothe paving business. It has no debt and 1low taxes It turned out Sam Beatty, [ Lyman Humphry and Joseph Medill.It ha sheltered Victoria Woodhull, lt;lt;iraashop|er Jake and Baron Von 1Schneider. It bnilded a grand public library upon paper ami lias a magnificent city hall of the same material. It I has a pension bureau known as the street r department, and a mayor with the asthma. It has some churches with very high steeples, and then again some very, low dives. It has a milltaryVompany and a crack hand. These glories could he carried on wl infinitum as the lawyers sav, but modesty forbids. In the midst of happiness and prosperity it is indetd lamentable to observe indifference of the city fathers to the example they set tothe young by permitting Plum street to be otliciallv spelled with a b. In the language of Hairy (iamp, drat tt.at b !r\nrm*titvtf
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Massillon Daily Independent
Massillon, Ohio, US
Tue, Feb 19, 1889
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