From Pack Saddles to Steamboats A Century of Travel
The article surveys travel and freight progress from primitive pack saddles and river boats to the steam era. It notes vast mileage of U S railroads, costs of transport during early wars, and the shifting mobility that connected towns, with attention to European distress and Rhode Island school data.
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Hyafte
New York
Boston
Jahe Frio
United States
Artén Inds
Ita
Legislative Proceedings Report From General Assembly
The Senate and House passed and amended various acts including prohibiting free passes to railroad commissioners, increasing state secretary fees, and tax raises on billiard tables. Other actions included relief for poor debtors, petroleum inspections in Providence, a soldiers monument funding, and proposed constitutional amendments tabled.
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General Assembly
Senate
Judiciary Committee
Secretary of State
theLouse
Finance
Providence
Ita
Congress
House
Sheffield
Committee On the Judiciary
Woonsocket
Gardner
Messrs. Emerson
Church
Weeden
Westerly
Supreme Court
Court of Common Pleas
Railroads in England and European Change
Mr Beach editor of the New York Sun notes English railroads excel in car consistency and water take up via a trough system. He contrasts English speed and efficiency with American practices and cites a London traffic growth table showing vast city influx and funerary logistics. The piece also mentions European state changes since 1847 and a U S naval station at Samana in San Domingo.
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England
Beach
New York Sun
Tobias
Cortlandt Street
New York
Coal fields and oddities in a wary 19th century era
A survey lists 5830 square miles of Alabama coal beds and notes wild items from a Paris murder to smuggling in Belfast. It reports Cincinnati floods drowning millions of rats, a Maine man returning money, and a Boston debt figure. It mentions Maltese tax details, Yale February warmth, and Marion Kentucky depredations by armed groups.
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Alabama
Isaac Patch
Eastern Point
Gloucester
Mass
Wank
Senate
West Springfield
Maine
Paris
Prussia
America
Ture
Boston
Mellen, Ward & Co
Belfast
Goode
Supreme Court term opens as juries hear two civil cases
The March term starts with Chief Justice Bradley and Justices Brayton and Darfee. Grand and Petit Juries are sworn. George C. Franklin sues John B. Fenner for trespass in Warren. verdict for plaintiff 875 dollars, court adds 367.50. Joseph Blake sues John Waterman for professional services. verdict for plaintiff. Grand Jury returns eight liquor law indictments amid tributes to a local charitable founder who died after a life of service.
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Supreme Court of
Bradley
Brayton
Darfee
John Adams
Phillip B. Bourn
George C. Franklin
John
Fenner
Warren
RB. B. Johnson
Inman Manufacturing Co
Daid Co
Nathaniel T. Sanders
James Tillinghast
Joseph A. Blake
John O. Waterman
Activn
Sanford
Joseph M. Blake
John Turner
Nathaniel JT. Sanders
William H. Potter
Alden of Bristol Obituary Highlights Social Benevolence and Travel
Alice Brelict Alden, widow of Rev. Charles H. Alden, died in Philadelphia at 68. Born to Rev. Henry Wight, she taught, aided the poor, and traveled twice across the Atlantic with her daughters. Her remains were sent to Bristol, Rhode Island, her native town, for interment.
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Philadelphia
Alice Brelict
Charles H. Alden
Bristol
R. I
Congregational Church
Episcopal Church
U.S Navy
Pensacola
London
Paris
Rhine
Resolution to Amend U S Constitution Proposed by Congress
Historic joint resolution proposes Article Xty outlining citizenship equal protection due process and anti discrimination measures. It includes provisions on representation voting rights oath disqualification for insurrection and Congress power to remove disabilities by two thirds vote.
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United States
Congress of the
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
Rhode Island Ratifies Fourteenth Amendment Preamble and Resolution
The Rhode Island Legislature resolves to ratify and confirm the fourteenth amendment. It directs the Governor to transmit copies to the Secretary of State and to the presiding officers of both Houses of Congress.
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United States
Congress
Rhode Island
Houses of Congress
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Justice of the Peace and Notary Public
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Hope Street
DR. Martin
Bower
Franklin Street
UNION
Cristadoro
Republic
J. Cristadoro
Astor Mouse
DE Trey & CO
Liberty Street
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Express Co
N.Y
R Reed, Culler & CO
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McDonald's Cough Cure
McDonakds Caugh
F. J. Grifin, Jr
H. ¥. Gifford & Son
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