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Newspaper
Branford Gleaner
Location
Branford, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1879
Page
2
Branford Gleaner reports on state education topics and a new cemetery query. It notes Superintendent George E. Howe’s purchases, reforms at reform school, and hints at municipal plans for water works, a new fire engine, and local politics.
The New Haven county agricultural society offers prizes for youths under sixteen. The top corn and potato crops grown on a quarter acre win five dollars plus a year of Country Gentleman. second place gets two dollars plus American Agriculturist. Entries close September 15 for judge visits.
Governor Andrews appoints Roger Averrill William Post N Sperry and James Meech as Connecticut commissioners to the 1883 International Exhibition at New York under the U S board of trade auspices. The event marks the centennial of the end of the American Revolution and Riverside Park may host the grounds.
Congressman Wait proposes $90000 for New London navy yard work while Middletown seeks better depot facilities after investing $820000 in Air Line Railroad. Wethersfield prison site deemed unhealthy. high institute death rate noted. Paris editor Charles Elliot expands into English journalism in Paris. Betsey Hendrickson dies at 113 in New Haven. A 213 pound salmon nets prize near Lyme. Sprague workers face wage break and store trading rule. Tragedy in New Preston as Egbert Cogswell kills wife and drowns himself. Meriden firm Whittemore Peet Post & Co failure unsettles local bankers. Norwich banks hold $20000 of paper.
State records list from United States Patent Office for weeks ending April 22 29 and May 6 1879. Includes inventors from Connecticut such as Joseph Munger William N Woodruff Dwight M Church Frederick E Cross Henry E Fisher Earl A Smith Eli Morris Samuel Beatty Charles E Billings Richard Breul Yarvey M Chittenden Denis Foley Orange D Hunter Isaac W Stiles and others with assigns to Scoville Mfg Co Colt's Patent Firearms Wa terbury Buckle Co and Wa terbury Woodward.
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