Public School and Probate Fee Revisions in Rhode Island 1870
Rhode Island’s 1870 session enacts limits on private fees for school officers and publishers and raises probate court fees. Provisions prohibit inducements for site or sale of school books maps or charts and set detailed probate and clerk fee schedules including adoption decrees inventories and real estate sales.
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Acta
Courts of Probate
Rhode Island
Board of Education
Providenes
Senate
Thse
Commissioner of Public Schools
Providence
Jary
Jaux
Bartlett
The Whirlwind of Snow In Russia 1811 a tale of love secret marriage
In 1811 at Nenaradof a rich landholder Gabrolwich hosts Mary a beautiful heiress adored by many. Her romance with a poor ensign faces parental opposition leading to a secret elopement plan thwarted by a deadly snowstorm and a mysterious church wedding with a lost bridegroom. The story follows fate, war, and a later revelation linking Colonel Vourmin to Mary through a frozen past and a shared, haunting memory.
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Russia
Gabrolwich
Nenaradof
Mary
Petrowna
Ensign
Newarthes
Winter
Valdimir
Jadrina
Everyoe
Prdmances
Jadrino
Uldimir
Nenarados
Gabrielwich
Gabriel Gabrielwich
Whso
Petrovna
Borodino
Moscow
Hussars
Vourmin
Dos Otion
Vournin
Syracue
Siilaponk
Vilns
Postillion
Bermaid
A Sabbath Reverie On Nature And Rest
Tuk Samath writes of the Sabbath bringing calm to nature and people. The world quiets, fields and woods brighten, bells ring softly, and the weary turn homeward to rest. The day is praised as a blessed haven after life’s storms and the sail of care lies furled.
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Earth
Hymn Tune From 1827 Savannah Composer Lowell Mason
Lowell Mason wrote the music for a hymn in Savannah Georgia in 1827 at the suggestion of Miss Howard. He kept the paper and later printed and published the tune. Also included are moral maxims urging self forgetfulness for others’ good and parental duties to guide children with steady example.
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Aenend
Nccaw
Greeenlands
Moryt- Atns
Greenland
Tey Mountains
Lowell Mason
Savanmith
Georgia
Birds outwit blasts at quarry bell as thrush survives
A thrush nests in a slate quarry center of blasting while workers blast around it. The bird learns the bell signals to seek shelter and even adapts when visitors come. The tale, from the London Literary Journal, ends with a note on advertising's reach and value.
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London Literary Journal
Advertising Rates and Merchant Frauds Highlighted in Rochester Tale
The Rochester Democrat recounts aggressive advertising rates and warns that merchants manipulate weights and measures. It cites New York merchants as dishonest, detailing tare inflation, sugar weight padding, liquor gauging tricks, and barrel salt stuffing. A druggist spoofing canisters with turpentine oil and counterfeit seals is described as a brazen fraud.
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New York
Rochester Democrat
H—I
Johnny
Iron hammered to red heat by repeated blows
In lectures on heat at the London institution Mr G F Rodwell discusses a case where mechanical movement becomes heat. A nail hammered repeatedly with a light hammer reached bright red heat after under two minutes, supporting Boyle’s ideas on heat generation from motion.
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Hammentye
London Institution
G F Rodwell
Rodwell
Robert Boyle
Robert Poyle
Robwel
Sid
Blanching of the Hatt in East Indian Rebellion Report
In an East Indian rebellion account Colonel Franks captures a Bengalee prisoner aged 54. Surgeon Major Fanny notes the man’s fear as he is stripped for interrogation. Within about thirty minutes his hair allegedly turns gray, a phenomenon observed by the sergeant and narrator.
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Franks
Chamba
Fanny
Evers
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