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Mother Brook as driver of development

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WHERE GROWTH CENTERS Public Utilities Base of Country's Crowtn CHICAGO, Oct. 31, (By Mail)From the days of grist mills and stage coaches to athe present the country's growth depended largely, on public utilities, declare members of the Illinois Committee on Public Utility Information. The first known public utility was a grist mill at Dedham, Mass., erected in 1640 on the waterway cut through to join the Charles river and the Neponset: This waterway, •known as Mother Brook, was the first canal constructed in the United States. Owners of the mill provided a place where the early set tlers might grind their corn, exacting a tithe in payment for mill maintenance. At the time Madison was elected president, the nation was a group of isolated communities, the bureau says. It took three weeks for news his election to reach the pioneers of Kentucky. President Monroe warned congress that a country reachin- from Atlantic to the Middle West "to extensive to wale be governed by a despotic monerchy." The stage coach was brought into use for travel between communities and canals were built for transportation of grain and other produce. Earlv in the ninteenth century gas was introduced in some of the larger cities and replaced candles and tamps. A big step forward came with the invention and development of the steam engine. Steam railroads hastened the development and expansion of the nation. After that came electricity and the telephone. of •We have passed from the age individual craftsman to the mechanical age." states, the bureau. "We are in the electric power of rapid communication, of the utilization of gas for cooking, heating and manufacture. Barriers of time and distance are wiped out. Living is more comfortable. And the development goes on."
Article from 06 Nov 1922The Salina Journal(Salina, KS)
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