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The National Glass Company controlled 19 glass companies, which meant it controlled about 75 percent of the glass tableware market in the United States. [106] The American Window Glass Company trust was created in 1898, and it had over half of the nation's window glassmaking capacity in part because it consisted of many of the large works that ...
Evidence of glass during the chalcolithic has been found in Hastinapur, India. [24] The earliest glass item from the Indus Valley civilization is a brown glass bead found at Harappa, dating to 1700 BCE. This makes it the earliest evidence of glass in South Asia. [3] [25] Glass discovered from later sites dating from 600 to 300 BCE displays ...
He and his brother Louis Charles Page (1883–1934) founded the Texas firm of Page Brothers, Architects (also known as C. H. Page & Bro.). The firm achieved great recognition when they were commissioned to design the Texas State Building for the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition (informally known as the St. Louis World's Fair). [ 1 ]
Waiving Provisions of Executive Order No. 9 of January 17, 1873, Prohibiting Federal Officers and Employees from Holding State or Municipal Offices, as to Martin Conboy December 21, 1933 525 6519 Code of Fair Competition for Savings, Building and Loan Associations December 21, 1933 526 6520 Code of Fair Competition for the Grinding Wheel Industry
An advertisement for the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad in an 1881 Dallas city directory. By 1880, the Missouri-Kansas-Texas Railroad, under the leadership of Jay Gould, reached Dallas. [9] In 1885, the Main Street was lit with electricity. [10] In 1888, the Dallas Zoo opened making it the first zoological garden in the state. [11]
The Mississippi House of Representatives on Wednesday passed a bill that could remove state regulations for counties and cities on building permit processes and laws, which licensed contractors ...
Home of Samuel Rhoads Fisher, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and the secretary of the Republic of Texas navy. Sweeny-Waddy Log Cabin: East Columbia: 1833 One of the oldest remaining slave cabins in the state built by John Sweeny Sr. for the Waddy family who continued living in it after they were freed. Col. Charles DeMorse Home
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