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38150
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The cold gold began to appear as means to keep produce chilled in the earlier part of the nineteenth century. Families purchasing ice from wagons and local icehouses made it a common way of life by the late nineteenth century. Wm. E. Worth and Company, the first artificial ice factory, paving the way of predominance for artificial ice production. Today, Harris and Rose Ice Company provides ice for much of Southeastern North Carolina, assuring the continuation of a long tradition started in Wilmington.
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1604
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Morris & Associates, a Garner refrigeration and ice-making company, is sending the world's biggest ice maker to Seoul. The thermal storage system, which has the capacity to produce over a half-million pounds of ice per day, will cool an office complex.
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North Carolina (NoCar F 251 W4), Vol. 52 Issue 6, June 1994, p6, por
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35998
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Among Mrs. Cynthia Rollinson’s recollections of life were the lives she helped delivered as a midwife. As for life from decades ago, she could attest to a time when homes had ice boxes instead of refrigerators. She could also attest to a way Hatteras Island seemed futuristic, even in its dependency on kerosene as a light source: it had windmills.
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Sea Chest (NoCar F 262 D2 S42), Vol. 4 Issue 3, Spring 1978, p42-43