A man from a nearby funeral home recently went into Treadle Yard Goods and dropped off his business card.
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So-called yard goods and notions — which includes yarn, fabric, thread and related items — are not taxed because they could be used to make clothes.
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As Ms. D'Ascoli sewed in her deserted studio, a line of about 200 people, all standing six feet apart, snaked outside Michele Hoaglund's Treadle Yard Goods fabric store in St. Paul, Minn.
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These peninsulas take the water between thumb and finger Like women feeling for the smoothness of yard-goods But what is the printer's excitement to us, or to the author of this determinedly unemotional poem?
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When the transpacific trade with Manila developed in the late sixteenth century, the finer quality Asian silks out-competed locally produced ones.Woodrow W. Borah, Silk Raising in Colonial Mexico. Berkeley: University of California Press 1943. The bulk of luxury yard goods were imported from northern Europe via Spain.
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St Blazey station closed to the public on 21 September 1925 but continued to be used by workmen's trains to Fowey until 29 December 1934. Loading scrap metal in the old goods yard Goods traffic is still sometimes loaded in the goods yard at St Blazey, which is otherwise used for storing wagons from the adjacent marshalling yard.
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In later seasons she dresses in a flamboyant, urban manner with trendy hairstyles and bold dresses and suits, out of place with the Walton women and the conservative rural area. She is innovative, and improves the yard goods and millinery departments at Godsey's store. Humorously, she always addresses her husband as "Mr. Godsey" except for intimate private moments.
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Schooner Ella, approaching Wilmington with a cargo of salt and yard goods from Nassau, Bahamas, was James Adgers next victim, surrendering on 26 November. Without the normal overhaul periods due ships and men, service was taking a daily toll in wear and tear. When the ship's long postponed repairs could be delayed no longer, James Adger sailed north and decommissioned at Philadelphia on 28 December for the necessary yard work.
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A woman who grew up during the days of the mining company reminisced about the store: "It was the forerunner of today's malls all under one roof. It had a grocery store, men and women's clothes, a shoe department, yard goods and furniture." Purchases made at the company store were deducted from the miners' paychecks. A lantern would be lit in the store window when work was available.
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Arriving in Montreal in 1853, Robertson continued in the dry goods business working for the firm of Brown & Swan until 1855. Afterwards, he established Andrew Robertson & Company, specializing in yard goods. In the early 1860s, he built the Auburn Woolen Mill at Peterborough, Canada West, where he manufactured Canadian tweed. He sold the mill in 1867 in order to buy the future Lord Mount Stephen's wholesale dry goods business in Montreal.
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According to the New York Times, this departure from traditional decorating was on par with fashion's introduction to Dior's New Look. Parish and Hadley worked with quilters from Selma, Alabama in the late 1960s to develop patchwork quilted yard goods. The Freedom Quilting Bee was born in the Civil Rights Movement as a way for poor black craftswomen to earn money for their families. Many of the group's members participated in Civil Rights demonstrations.
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Korong Vale is a demolished railway station, located at the junction of the Robinvale and Kulwin railway lines, in the township of Korong Vale, Victoria, Australia. Only freight trains use the line though the station. At the peak of operations, the station had an island platform with footbridge access, two signal boxes, a marshalling yard, goods platform and shed, and a weighbridge.Victorian Railways signal diagram Victorian Railways signal diagram Rationalisation was carried out in the 1980s.
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Gray was born in Windsor, Ontario, the son of Fannie (née Lifitz), a nurse, and Harry Gray, who had a business selling yard goods. His parents were both from Belarusian Jewish families. Gray attended Victoria School and Kennedy Collegiate Institute in Windsor before receiving a Bachelor of Commerce degree in 1952 from McGill University. He studied at Osgoode Hall Law School, where he received a Bachelor of Laws degree and was called to the bar, becoming a member of the Law Society of Upper Canada.
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Both are line standards: the yard was defined by the distance at 62°F between two fine lines drawn on gold plugs (closeup, top) installed in recesses near each end of the bar. Two yardsticks, used for measuring "yard goods" The yard (abbreviation: yd) is an English unit of length, in both the British imperial and US customary systems of measurement, that comprises 3 feet or 36 inches. 1,760 yards is equal to 1 mile. Since 1959 it is by international agreement standardized as exactly 0.9144 meters.
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A disused railway line, part of the Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway branch line between Saxby and Bourne, runs just to the north of the village. The Edmondthorpe and Wymondham railway station closed to passengers in 1959 though the line remained open for ironstone freight, and HM Queen Elizabeth journeyed along it in 1967. The route was also used for holiday trips from Leicester to Skegness. The former goods yard, goods shed, station, Station House and Navvies' Cottage (Grade II Listed) are passed when travelling from the village along Butt Lane towards the windmill.
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Unlike most fabric/yard goods which are sold by the yard (or metre), silk is sold to the wholesaler by weight. The first step in processing the silk fiber is "degumming the fibre," the gum being a byproduct of the production of the silk fibre by the worm. Approximately one-fifth of the weight of the silk fibre is lost in the degumming process, and manufacturers felt they had the "right" to replace this lost weight with a filler of some sort. Silk has an affinity for several metallic salts, the most common of which being iron, lead, and tin.
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Robin Hood's Bay railway station was a railway station on the Scarborough & Whitby Railway situated 15 miles from Scarborough and 6 miles from Whitby It opened on 16 July 1885, and served the fishing village of Robin Hood's Bay, and to a lesser extent the village of Fylingthorpe. On the north-bound journey trains had to climb a mile and a half at 1 in 43 out of the station. The goods yard had a 1.5 ton crane and could handle all kinds of freight. With five sidings, cattle dock, coal yard, goods shed, and weighbridge it was the largest one on the line.
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The Kress Foundation Relief by Rene Paul Chambellan Sibbert's Mayan Revival Kress store on Fifth Avenue in New York City was built in 1935 and demolished in 1980. > A seven-story marble structure designed for every shopping comfort, its Art > Deco elegance was graced by airborne Mayan gods on the sales floor and > Mayan-style hieroglyphs of the gloves and padlocks and yard goods for sale. > Awarded a gold medal for architectural quality, the store represented the > zenith of the Kress empire in luxury, modernity, and retailing capacity. The downtown Kress store in Greensboro, North Carolina, is a characteristic example that shows the chain's use of elaborate exterior details including coats-of-arms, metal work, and inlaid artistic flourishes on the keystones and corners.
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The Campbell Building was immediately emblematic of local craftsmanship and a source of pride for every Shelbian who contributed work on the project. At its opening the Cleveland Star noted in an article on March 7, 1928 that the Bostic Brick Company of Bostic, North Carolina provided all of the brick. Eighty tons of structural steel was manufactured and used in the building by J.C. Weathers of Shelby, North Carolina; and the millwork for the flooring, stairs, and show windows were completed by A.J. Thompson of Shelby. The 30,000 square foot, five-level building was a full service department store selling groceries, bedding, hats, yard goods, footwear, furniture, appliances, farm supplies, toys, caskets, and clothing for women, men, and children.
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Different parties are responsible for the renovation of the buildings, as some of the buildings and the ground floor of the entrance building have been sold by DB Station&Service.; The back of the station, with the grounds of the former freight yard in the foreground In the spring of 2009, Mitteldeutsche Baustoffe GmbH was commissioned to rehabilitate the already disused and isolated second track between the Magdeburger Straße level crossing and the former Groß Orden siding. A railway loading plant for gravel and greywacke was built in the area of the former coal yard. Goods from Bode Kieswerk in Ditfurt, two kilometres away, and from the quarry in Rieder, twelve kilometers away, are transhipped from trucks to trains here. It was planned to resume operations after the restoration of the siding on 24 June 2009 and the relocation of two kilometres of track from the end of July 2009, but trial operations could only start in October 2009 and regular operations began on 12 May 2010.
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