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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1879
Page
2
The July 23 1879 Branford Gleaner notes axles now use cast steel with Swedish charcoal iron. The Polytechnic praises the alloy for strength though the test procedure is described: from fifty axles, one is dropped with 1840 pounds and then struck five times at center three feet apart without breaking to accept the lot.
A July 21 1879 correspondence recalls Fulton Market in New York famed for oysters and eating houses. It notes two Dorlan saloons with shifting interiors, the market’s aging look, and its mix of grimy charm with top quality meats, fish, and produce attracting patrons across classes and even future editors and millionaires.
A report notes 490 residents in Norwich pay a tax on schedules of five thousand dollars or more. An umbresia mender was arrested under the tramp law at New Milford. Torringford church added a bell weighing about a thousand pounds. The Hawley Guard of Willimantic, about sixty strong, has been attached to the Third regiment. Robert Britton of New Fairfield is bound over to the Superior Court for trial for an alleged attempt to murder his brother in law Levi Gorham with a scythe.
United States Patent Office weekly list for Connecticut items includes Frank A Brown Putnam springs for carding engines Chauncey Buckley Lodowick Sawyer Meriden curtain fixtures James D Frary Bridgeport pocket cutlery John B H Leonard Bridgeport assignor to Frary automatic pumps Lyman Middlefield paper bag machines Wilcox Jepson West Meriden assignors to Meriden Britannia covered articles of plated ware and Lydia H Austin Boston assignment for others
Harper & Brothers announces complete eleven volume sets of Harper's Bazar bound in cloth, shipped express free if freight stays under one dollar per volume, price 7.00 per set or 5.25 per volume on cash receipt. Cloth cases mailed postpaid at 1.00 each. Remittances via post office money order or draft to avoid loss.
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