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Sir Titus Salt, Baronet, His Life and Its Lessons, by Robert Balgarnie (1826 - 1899)

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Titus Salt was a British manufacturer, politician and philanthropist, renounde for having built Salt's Mill, a large, innovative textile mill, together with the attached village of Saltaire, where he provided cleaner air, better housing, schooling, banking, churches, recreation, shorter hours and higher wages for over 4000 employees. Salt's tireless work and innovation with alpaca thread lead him to fame and fortune. He was awarded a baronetsy by the British Crown in 1869. It is estimated that over 100,000 people attended his funeral. Salt left no memoirs, but his personal friend, Rev. Balgarnie, pieced together this fascinating biography from interviews, records, news articles and speeches by or about him. One testimonial stated "Titus was perhaps the greatest captain of industry in England not only because he gathered thousands under him but also because, according to the light that was in him, he tried to care for all those thousands." Salt disbursed over £500,000 in philanthropy by the time of his death (about £65 million in 2021, or $91.5 million).

THE GREAT YORKSHIRE LLAMA, by Charles Dickens, the story referred to in Chapter 6 which elaborates how Sir Titus discovered a huge stash of alpaca wool in Liverpool, and developed it into a highly popular fabric, can be found in LV's <a href=https://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-vol-082-by-various/> Short Non-Fiction Collection #82</a> (Summary by Michele Fry)
Source text (please read only from this text!): https://archive.org/details/sirtitussaltbar01balggoog/

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Michele,
I'd be happy to MC this for you. I'll get your MW set up.
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Gee, that was quick! Thanks MaryAnn. I've filled in the MW and preclaimed the cover, so I guess we're ready to go to Readers Wanted, books.
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Chapter 20, please.
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20 is yours, Kevin. Hope it's interesting for you.
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Thanks, Kevin. I'll be out of town overnight, so it may be a few days before I get to PL this. I do hope to upload my section 1 before I go, so maybe you could PL it for me if you have the time. It's short.
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msfry wrote: April 20th, 2021, 12:09 pm Thanks, Kevin. I'll be out of town overnight, so it may be a few days before I get to PL this. I do hope to upload my section 1 before I go, so maybe you could PL it for me if you have the time. It's short.
Will do!
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PL Notes Chapter 20

Wow, that was a moving chapter and a fitting end for this book! Particularly so for me as I attended a big Catholic funeral yesterday. You read it well and with feeling. Thank you. Alas, I found a few errors that make sense to me to correct, but you know how picky I am. :oops:

1:47 Sir Titus Salt was dead, you say Thomas
9:45 as for the rows of almshouses, you say row (singular)
11:10 Within the edifice, you say evidence
20:33 creator of a new era, you say error.
22:11 freedom, breadth, you say breath
25:07 anything he planned or purposed, you say proposed. (Not sure this matters)
25:09 He rests amid the, I hear ressamid, a word I couldn't have ciphered without reading the text.
25:32 shines in the works of his hands. you say work (sounds more like manual labor than his ideas)
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Did I forget to post my PL notes for Ch. 1?

There is a segment from 4:42 - 4:48 that needs attention.
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msfry wrote: April 22nd, 2021, 8:01 am PL Notes Chapter 20

Wow, that was a moving chapter and a fitting end for this book! Particularly so for me as I attended a big Catholic funeral yesterday. You read it well and with feeling. Thank you. Alas, I found a few errors that make sense to me to correct, but you know how picky I am. :oops:

1:47 Sir Titus Salt was dead, you say Thomas
9:45 as for the rows of almshouses, you say row (singular)
11:10 Within the edifice, you say evidence
20:33 creator of a new era, you say error.
22:11 freedom, breadth, you say breath
25:07 anything he planned or purposed, you say proposed. (Not sure this matters)
25:09 He rests amid the, I hear ressamid, a word I couldn't have ciphered without reading the text.
25:32 shines in the works of his hands. you say work (sounds more like manual labor than his ideas)
Got it. Will make corrections soon.

By the way, for me 'breadth' and 'breath' are homophones.
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KevinS wrote: April 22nd, 2021, 10:36 am By the way, for me 'breadth' and 'breath' are homophones.
With D and TH, the tongue is almost in the same place, either behind or atop the top teeth, then when you put the two together, there is a slide so they sound mighty close. But they are not really homophones in the strictest sense. It's up to you.
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msfry wrote: April 22nd, 2021, 11:36 am
KevinS wrote: April 22nd, 2021, 10:36 am By the way, for me 'breadth' and 'breath' are homophones.
With D and TH, the tongue is almost in the same place, either behind or atop the top teeth, then when you put the two together, there is a slide so they sound mighty close. But they are not really homophones in the strictest sense. It's up to you.
Haha! I'll do my best ... or I'll give up!
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May I please have section 12?
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