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... India - rubber , it is made of India - rubber . An unob- servant reader , however , would scarcely suspect the fact before reading the Preface , for the India - rubber covers resemble highly polished ebony , and the leaves have the ...
... India - rubber , it is made of India - rubber . An unob- servant reader , however , would scarcely suspect the fact before reading the Preface , for the India - rubber covers resemble highly polished ebony , and the leaves have the ...
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... India - rubber shoes of twenty years ago , which had to be thawed out under the stove before they could be put on , and which , if left under the stove too long , would dissolve into gum that no household art could ever harden again ...
... India - rubber shoes of twenty years ago , which had to be thawed out under the stove before they could be put on , and which , if left under the stove too long , would dissolve into gum that no household art could ever harden again ...
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... India- rubber shoes that could only be saved during the summer by putting them into a refrigerator . In the third year of the ma- nia , India - rubber stock began to decline , and Roxbury itself finally fell to two dollars and a half ...
... India- rubber shoes that could only be saved during the summer by putting them into a refrigerator . In the third year of the ma- nia , India - rubber stock began to decline , and Roxbury itself finally fell to two dollars and a half ...
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... India - rubber . He says himself : - " From the time that his attention was first given to the subject , a strong and abiding impression was made upon his mind , that an object so desirable and important , and so necessary to man's ...
... India - rubber . He says himself : - " From the time that his attention was first given to the subject , a strong and abiding impression was made upon his mind , that an object so desirable and important , and so necessary to man's ...
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... India - rubber pure and simple , he concluded that a compound of some substance with India - rubber could alone render the gum available . He was correct in this conjecture , but it remained to be discovered whether there was such a ...
... India - rubber pure and simple , he concluded that a compound of some substance with India - rubber could alone render the gum available . He was correct in this conjecture , but it remained to be discovered whether there was such a ...
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