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principal establishments are railway repair shops, which in 1905 gave employment to 48.9% of all wage-earners engaged in manufacturing. Among the borough's manufactures are stoves and furnaces, See also:

MALT (O. Eng., mealt; O. Sax., malt; O. Tent., maltos; Mod. Ger., Malz; Scand., malt; probably derived from the Sanskrit mrdu, soft, thus having reference to the fact that malt is raw grain rendered soft or tender)

malt liquors and See also:

SILK

silk. Dunmore is the seat of the See also:

state oral school for the See also:

DEAF

deaf. The See also:

TOWN

town was first settled in 1783 and was incorporated in 1862. Its growth was accelerated by the See also:

ESTABLISHMENT (0. Fr. establissement, Fr. etablissement, late Norm. Fr. establishement, from O. Fr. establir, Fr. etablir, Lat. stabilire, to make stable)

establishment here, in 1863, of the shops of the railway from See also:

PITTSTON

Pittston to See also:

Hawley built in 1849—1850 by the Pennsylvania Coal See also:

COMPANY

Company. Dunmore became a station of the Scranton See also:

POST

post See also:

OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")

office in 1902.

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