id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 39780 Brigham, William Tufts Baltimore Hats, Past and Present .txt text/plain 27996 1128 63 carrying on the hat business at 24 South Calvert street, where With the growing trade of the city, the business of hat-making kept thus securing to him at that time the most extensive business in hat of fifteen years was the _only_ article of straw hat retailed by him. of the present large and increasing straw goods business of the city In the earliest days of straw hat making in Baltimore, at the time Baltimore continued to enlarge and increase her straw hat factories The growth of the straw hat business of Baltimore may be looked upon erecting, in the year 1814, a large hat factory in this city, seemed Baltimore, felt hats only were manufactured, which business was the firm of Brigham & Hopkins, became straw hat manufacturers. Following the onward movement of the straw hat business in Baltimore While at the present time the hat business of Baltimore is largely ./cache/39780.txt ./txt/39780.txt