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sible for them to compete with any institution of the kind in the country on any kind of first-class work in their line. Although labor saving devices are used wherever practical, the car works employ between six and eight hundred men, paying out large sums in wages monthly. As a medium of distribution of money the car works are of inestimable value to the city of Mount Vernon, and has enabled many of its industrious and economical employes to buy comfortable homes for themselves; and such is its periodical disbursements that it imparts to business an impetusthat is far-reaching in the growth of the city. It is impossible for the Headlight to enter into a detailed description of the real merits of the products of this concern. It is a grand institution, ably and liberally conducted, and appreciated by the citizens. The officers are as follows : D. 0. Settlemire, President; Geo. W. Evans, Vice-President; W. C. Arthurs, Secretary and Treasurer; Frank Snyder, Superintendent; C. II. Patton, Attorney.--F. W. Hermann.Proper dress is certainly a great influence on a man’s career. It not
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Headlight
Mt Vernon, Illinois, US
Sat, Oct 01, 1898
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