Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1874-12-30
List OF Patents


Issued from the United States Patent Office te
citizens of Maine, fer the week ending Dec. 25
| 1874. Furnished for the journal from the office
of j. McC. Perkins & Co., Counselors- at-law and
Solicitors for American and foreign patents, 5lG
Seventh street. Washington, DC. Drawings and
specifications of any Patent in this list furnished
for 25 cents.
| 1866. Machines for making Match plints
Henry Henri Wright Damamarseot'a' Filled Sept To-
Brief-The match-card is first split from the
block, then subdivided into separate matches each
Of which is pointed ready to receive the ignit-
| ing composition.
157,473. Manufacture of Boxes. II. Wesley
Hutchins, Livermore Falls. Filed Sept 81, 1873.
Brief.-The machine prepares the material from
which the box is made, for the bending and the
union of its ends, before cutting it from the log
Home Trade Again.
Mr.. EDITOR Il see by your paper that "a
Friend to Home Trade" is very much interested
for our city, and asks and asserts in the same
BREATH what right a man or a number of men
have to give their trade to Boston or Portland,
when they can be cheaply served by our own
| tradesmen. Can our friend cite any good reason
why we have not the same right to spend our own
money for ourselves, in Boston or elsewhere, as
they have to spend it for us Our friend should
remember this is free country, where the labor
| ing man has right to his own hard earnings and
| a right to make the best possible use of his
money for the benefit of his family and l think
all honorable men will admit this. As for getting
\ served cheaper at home, we have tried Home
Trade" to our sorrow; our friends assertion is to
| say the least gross cxaggeraton. AS to what
kind of policy it is called-it is called protec
tive policy, and think it is of much more value
to city than friend is willing to admit. We
! all know that many a laboring man Is driven from
| our city by the exorbitant prices demanded for
groceries and all other goods. When, if the me-
chancs and laborers could get the necessaries of
life at reasonable price they could afford to stay in
olr city and help enrich it by their skill and labor
We do not propose to go to Boston to get suit OF
clothes if we get them at reasonable price at
| home. Our sugar We shall certainly buy in Bos-
ton, and all other groceries, thereby saving at least
| Is per cent. So that in time wives can have
silk dress, instead of the prints they now have to
wear in order that their husbands can pay their
bills at those stores that serve us 80 "cheapy
Oysters is luxury we seldom sec. Bat we think
the shells of the worst oysters cracked and we
are in hopes soon to be able to afford such luxury
| few good ones will give MS. Our friend thinks
that we are apt to be of very little benefit to the
business community in which we live. / think
our skill and labor Of much more real benefit to
any community than an over stock Of men that
calculate to live and grow wealthy on our hard
earnings. | would like to ask friend to home
trade, if the merchants produce sugar, silks, oys-
tiers, &C.; if not, they 90 to market for them
| and pay the money its equivalent. They en-
deavor to get as near the importer and producer
as possible. Of course they have got to make
profit or 90 out of the business. But they will say
the merchant with large capital can buy in large
quantities, consequently can buy much cheaper. l
admit that fact, but is there merchant in this city
that can live off profits made in that manner Does
| not experience teach US that the consumer must
pay large profit in addition.
If seven-eights of the tradesmen in this city
should go to producing something the balance
might live OIL the profits made by the of a
large capital. We thing if the laboring men can,
by buying, as near the importer and manufacture
| as the middle men, the profits to pay their
debts and keep their families from the poor house
the city will be quite as well off,
\. Z. L. 4. MEMBER.