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Title: Only Rich Could Afford Electricity At First; Early Days Of Electricity Recalled By Old Residents
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Source: Main Line Chronicle
Date: 2/17/1972
Folder/Item #: Lower Merion-Articles/General (1) to 1999; 8
Notes:
Abstract: The coming of electricity to the Main Line in the 1890s; consolidation of many small companies into Philadelphia Electric Company; pictures