Mrs Garfield and French Diplomatic Language Claim
Mrs Garfield fluent in French and German for diplomatic talks. A French inventor patents birch bark distillate addition to India rubber and gutta percha, improving durability against air and acids.
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Garfield
Europe
Ancient Pompeii finds and desert vineyard hints emerge
Excavations near Pompeii uncover thirty skeletons with jewelry in a villa room, while a San Francisco Chronicle report claims grape cuttings thrive on cactus in the Mojave Desert enabling rapid vineyard creation and drought friendly fruit growing. A New York letter from 1881 recaps machine politics concerns, fish culture, yachting news, and local incidents including a fatal Harper & Brothers belt incident.
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Pompeii
The
San Francisco Chronicle
Mojave
Easter Sunday Services and School Term Closure Notice
Easter events and school term details are noted. Rev. George E. Fuller of Fair Haven Mass will preach at State Street M E Church tomorrow morning and afternoon. The spring term of the public schools in town closed yesterday with District No. dt purveyor chosen by Mr. Charles H. Church by a large margin.
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The
Phoenix
West Point
Secretary of War
Military Academy
Thomas B. Stockwell
Public Schools
Geo. H. H. Fay
Geo. L. Locke
Commissioner of Public Schools
North Main Street
Providence
Geo. W. Carr
Robert Millar
Mr. Stockwell
Charles H. Church
George E. Fuller
Fair Haven
Mass
State Street M. E
Josiah F. Peckham
Joseph E. Simmons
William C. Peckham
William H. Simmons
James D. Wardwell, Jr
Albert O. Luther
William Williams
Charles Paull
Charles H. Gooding
Loring Coggeshall
Robert 8. Andrews
Samuel P. Colt
Edward W. Brunson
William H. Spooner
William J. Miller
William V. Morrison
Charles J. Rogers
Henry Crocker
Otis Munro
Ozro O. Barrows
Isaac F. Williams
Parmenus Skinner, Jr
LeBaron B. Colt
Charles Dew. Brownell
Seth W. Thayer
George T. B. Chaffee
Isaac Liscomb
John W. Munro
Samuel Taylor
Alexander P. Baxter
Eugene A. Fish
Philip B. Bourn
Spencer Rounds
John F. Monro
William R
Benet
B. Wright
Leonard Te Ray
Maer
Gideon Ray
Davis
Tiverton
Edward B. Davis
Snow Depth Report From Friday Observed In Area
Snow fell Thursday night and Friday morning with ground depth reaching about three inches at sunrise Friday. Local skies cleared later, leaving a fresh white cover across the vicinity.
Clergy to Lead Easter Services at Trinity Church
Rev N H Chamberlain of Cambridge Mass will officiate at Trinity Church Easter Sunday services with an early celebration at 6 a m morning prayer at 7 second celebration at 10 children's service at 2 p m and evening prayer at 7 4.
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N. H. Chamberlain
Cambridge
Mass
Trinity Church
Visiting clergymen fill town pulpits Sunday
Visiting ministers preached at three churches Sunday with Rev. Mr Stevens from Brighton Massachusetts at the Congregational Church Elder A W Sibley from Taunton Massachusetts at the Advent Chapel and Mr W R Trotter at the Trinity Church.
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Mr. Stevens
Brighton
Mass
Congregational Church
A. W. Sibley
Taunton
Advent Chapel
W. R. Trotter
Trinity Church
Peckham Re-elected Town Surveyor in Strong Showing
Josiah F. Peckham, surveyor of highways in the compact part of the town, was re-elected at Monday's town meeting. An effort to unseat him failed as he won by an overwhelming majority.
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Josiah F. Peckham
Publishers’ Commercial Union
Janesville
Wisconsin
Clarence W. Taylor
Steamer D K Phillips Floated Off After Capsizing
The steamer D K Phillips capsized near the Marine Railway when the cradle frame broke on Thursday of last week. It was moved from its initial resting place and on Monday evening was floated off and towed to Providence by the steam tug Reliance under Captain Sutton.
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D. K. Phillips
Soas
Marine Railway
Providence
Reliance
Sutton
Rogers Free Library Adds For Coming Week
Additions include Mays Constitutional History of England eight volumes Shakespeare His Mind and Art Edward Dowden Across Patagonia Lady Florence Dixie English Men of Letters Wordsworth Myers The Great Musicians Richard Wagner Mary Marston Geo Macdonald Aimwell Stories Jerry Noble Deeds of Our Forefathers The Doctors Daughter Sophie May Donations include Arnold Life of Benedict Arnold.
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Patagonia
Lady Florence Dixie
Wordsworth
Myers
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Geo. Macdonald
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Jerry
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Y Arnold
Benedict Arnold
Nomination Rights Questioned at Town Meeting
At the annual town meeting held Saturday, Hon. A. O. Bourn urged that nominations come from a caucus not the town meeting. Citizens wonder if the right to nominate in open town meetings has been wrongly exercised, and how they might atone for this prerogative.
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A. O. Bourn
Town Meeting Votes for Council and Debts in 1881
Town meeting delegates council seats to be filled with a ticket listing Lindsey Munro and other town officials. Voter turnout was 278 despite 874 qualified, with high debt and a proposed tax of 42 500 to 44 000 to reduce debt and fund schools roads and fire services. Adjourned sine die after extensive street and budget resolutions addressing lighting, paving, and building needs.
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A. W
Ore ‘T. Bennett
Eng
Bennett
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Andrew B. Trotter
Samuel M. Lindsay
Elisha M. Wardwell
Otis Munro
James T. F
Tindssy
Mr. Freeborn
Lindsey
Messrs. Greene
Ing
George T. French
Frederik A. Warner
Ozro
Barrows
John B. Taylor
James Hoard, Jr
Benjamin M. Lincoln
John H. Gladding
John A. C. Gladding
James F. Stoughton
Charles 8. Cummings
Henry Goff
William R. Taylor
Charles H. Spooner
Wood
Charles V. Perry
Parker Borden
Nathan N. Cole
Packer
Harvey N. Furgerson
Josephus Gooding
Thomas J. Usher
J. Howard Manchester
George Tilley
Richard 8
Gladding
William H. Cook
James M. Gooding
Charles W. Perry
Allen T. Usher
Seth Paull
James Connery
John M. Coggeshall
Henry BR
George W. Simmons
Aeen Tiedisolice
Rogera
Taunton
Superintendent of Public Schools
Benjamin R
Mount Jane
Henry C. Sayles
Dreadnaught Hall
Board of Fire Engineers
King Philip No. 4
Lett ons Journal May issue review of Greek novelette and Lear discussion
The May Lett ons Journal offers the second part of Professor Ebers's Greek novelette A Greek This story is said to have been ture apson and features commentary on Art Nee rk by Lady Alford and painter G F. A readable piece on King Lear Readers provides agreeable discourse. Monthly issue priced at 25 cents per number or 3.00 per year from CD Appleton Co. New York.
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New York
New Year
Jordan
Pisciculturista
The
Times
Good Cause
John B. Morgan
Atlantic Yacht Club
Long Island
Barry Willard
Brooklyn Yacht Club
New York Club
Harper & Brothers
Franken Square
Fergie
Bradford
M. A. Dew. Howe
Woodlawn Street
Tan Yard Lane
Wood Street
William Harding
Elisha Hathaway
Bay View Avenue
Congregational Street
John B. Herreshoff
Summer Street
Board of Fire Engineers
Benjamin B. Wilson
Mount Jane
John B. Taylor
Letons
Ebers
Ture Apson
Art Neerk
Lady Alford
Vice
Hent
Royal School of Art
Neerk
G. F
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Rhode
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