In Holyoke, Mass, last week a Railway Express Agency truck turned into Canal Street. Finding no place to park, it drew up in the middle of the street. A crowd of curious Holyokels gathered around it for they knew that it carried a curious load, a load of history, a load of the
bitter antagonism long smoldering between two great Holyoke companies.
Two years after the panic of 1857, when industry was picking up again, there was incorporated Holyoke Water Power Co. whose canals were to be the lifeblood of the factories and mills in Holyoke...
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