Show aam A corner in candles As an example of trusts and bonol olics prevalent even in that early day da it may be mentioned that in 1750 one benjamin crabb obtained the exalus ivo right to make sperm candles in massachusetts for 14 years A year later however a factory was started in providence R 11 1 and within the decade there were eight fac tortes in new england and one in ili philadelphia theli their output greatly reduced the price of candles which alch not long before sold for foi live five shillings n pound in those days 1 25 was worth fully three times as much as it Is now from the designer |