1919 CROMPTON-RICHARD CORDUROY SUIT FASHION GAME MARBLE RHODE ISLAND AD 28608 For Sale

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1919 CROMPTON-RICHARD CORDUROY SUIT FASHION GAME MARBLE RHODE ISLAND AD 28608:
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DATE OF THIS**ORIGINAL** ILLUSTRATED COVER:1919

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The Crompton Mill was located in Crompton, Rhode Island. Crompton is located in West Warwick. Large numbers of Irish immmigrants settled in Crompton during the mid-19th century. As a result the city is the location of the first Catholic Church in Rhode Island--St. Mary\'s Church. The Irish were drawn by jobs in the mill. After the Civil War the Irish were followed in the late-19th century by many Poles and smaller numbers of Swedes. The most important business in Crompton was Crompton Mill. It was part of the early industrial developnment of the United Staes. The Crompton Mill was built in 1807. The Crompton Mill was a substantial granite building. It is notable as the first mill to produce both velvet and corduroy in the United States, althoough we are not sure whe production began. As a result, Crompton for a time was called the Velvet Village. Crompton is located in West Warwick. The Crompton Mill was awarded a golden medal at the Pan American Expedition in Buffalo, New York for making the best velvet and corduroy (1901). Atvthe time more than 50 people worked in the mill. The mill was highly mechanized. There were 30-35 machines on each floor and 3-5 floors. The Crompton Mill was called the Stone Jug Mill, a name related to an ealier historical period. The Crompton Mill was the first textile plant in the United States to make the cordury and velvet. [Lauren, Katelyn, Debra, and Brian] We are noit sure when Crompton began advertising. We note ads in the 1910s. The ad here was placed in 1919 (figure 1). We note Crompton placing corduroy ads into the 1940s.

Amarbleis a small spherical object often made fromglass,clay,steel,plastic, oragate. They vary in size, and most commonly are about13mm (1/2in) in diameter. These toys can be used for a variety of games calledmarbles, as well being placed inmarble runsor races, or created as a form of art. They are oftencollected, both fornostalgiaand for their aesthetic colors.

Sizes may range from less than1mm (1/30in)to over 8cm (3in), while some art glass marbles for display purposes are over 30cm (12in) wide.

In the North of England the objects and the game are called \"taws\", with larger taws being called \"bottle washers\" after the use of a marble inCodd-neck bottles, which were often collected for play.

In the early twentieth century, small balls of stone from about 2500 BCE, identified by archaeologists as marbles, were found by excavation nearMohenjo-daro, in a site associated with theIndus Valley civilization.Marbles are often mentioned in Roman literature, as inOvid\'s poem \"Nux\" (which mentions playing the game with walnuts), and there are many examples of marbles from excavations of sites associated with Chaldeans ofMesopotamiaand ancient Egypt. They were commonly made of clay, stone or glass. Marbles arrived in Britain, imported from theLow Countries, during themedieval era.

In 1503, the town council ofNuremberg, Germany, limited the playing of marble games to a meadow outside the townThe name \"marble\", used for the little toy balls, comes from this region and era, and refers to thestone called marble.[4]At this point, marbles were made in mills and quarries by polishing small fragments of real stone like marble,agate,alabaster,limestone, and evenbrass.

It is unknown where marbles were first manufactured.A Germanglassblowerinventedmarble scissors, a device for making marbles, in 1846.?Ceramicmarbles entered inexpensivemass productionin the 1870s.

The game has become popular throughout the US and other countries.[The first mass-produced toy marbles (clay) made in the US were made inAkron, Ohio, by S. C. Dyke, in the early 1890s. Some of the first US-produced glass marbles were also made in Akron by James Harvey Leighton. In 1903,Martin Frederick Christensen—also of Akron—made the first machine-made glass marbles on his patented machine. His company, M. F. Christensen & Son Co., manufactured millions of toy and industrial glass marbles until they ceased operations in 1917. The next US company to enter the glass marble market wasAkro Agate. This company was started byAkronitesin 1911, but located inClarksburg, West Virginia. Today, there are only two American-based toy marble manufacturers: Jabo Vitro inReno, Ohio, and Marble King, inPaden City, West Virginia.

Various games can be played with marbles.

One game popular in the United Kingdom and United States isring taw(or \"ringer\"), where a ring is drawn on the ground and a number of small marbles placed within it. Players take turns to flick a larger \"taw\" marble at these marbles, attempting to knock them out of the ring.

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