North Pole Expedition Organised by Italian Captain
A captain of the Italian navy plans the first expedition to seek the north pole, prepared in Italy for centuries. A human skull near Prague shows a low forehead and strong ridges found in a chalk bed where a mammoth tusk was dug days earlier. An early diver drowned after leaping from a steamer in New York. Two cases report electro magnet use to remove iron from eyes preserving sight. Ants infest Port Spain, Trinidad, with vast colonies and boiling-water attempts failing to destroy them.
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Fondacaro
North Pole
Italy
Prague
Botanic Garden
Port Spain
Trinidad
Electric Lights Transform Washingtons Night Sky
The 128000 candle power Brush Company lights illuminate the Washington Monument Capitol dome and Smithsonian tower, seen from twenty five miles away, signaling a potential city lighting revolution. President Grant’s visit garners respect while Senate and House scenes show quiet ritual and public admiration. Easter services at Trinity Church draw crowds as NOAA styled Pilot Charts circulate for mariners’ safety.
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Brush Company
Washington Monument
Capitol
Smithsonian
Monument
London
Walter Scott
Humphrey Davy
Grant
Randall
Senate of the
United States
Edmunds
Congress
Tariff Debate Won’t Progress in Congress This Session
The piece argues Republicans will oppose considering the tariff issue and many Democrats align similarly. With fifty Democrats possibly opposing, the bill may not be brought up, deemed a waste of time, leading to speeches and little outcome as the Senate would not act. The writer suggests adjournment before August is unlikely.
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Hanrer
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the Elder
Adams
Jefferson
Madison
Alexander Hamilton
Monroe
Henry Clay
Rufus King
Kruell
Jackson
Calhoun
Webster
Buchanan
Senate
Phaks
Ballev
Monrhly
California
William H. Thames
Australia
East Indies
Monterey
Leon Mead
Boston Globe
BaLiov
Thames & Talbot
Hawley Street
Boston
Town meeting adjourned and Easter services noted
The town meeting was adjourned for the week. Saint George's Day is next Wednesday with one week left of school vacation. Reverend White of Boston preached at the Congregational Church last Sunday. Lodge No 13 IOOF plans a united service at State Street ME on April 27. Big Easter mass at St Marys Church observed with flowers and sermons. Town Council noted jurors Freeman Peabody and John Lewis Jr for the May term. Mount Hope Avenue Greenhouses offer a wide selection of pansies, daisies, other flowers and cut flowers.
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Trinity Church
W R Trotter
Kyrie- Elvey
Trotter
Benedictus- Woodward
Agnus Dei
Woodward
St. Mary’s Church
Asa
Frederick Peabody
John W. Lewis, Jr
Court of Common Pleas
George S Slocum
Edwin F Lindsey
Frederick Geisler
Mount Hope Avenue
George W. Simmons
James Tobin
William H. Simmons
Josephus Gooding
James Hoard
Michael McKeon
John S. Lawton
John 8. Ingraham
Jonathan B. Munro
Nicholas S Burnham
John D. Dimond
David §. Wilcox
John H. H Mott
Nathan Warren
Edward Anthony, Jr
George T. French
Edwin C. Sparks
Richard B. Franklin
William F. Bowler
Benjamin R Wilson, Jr
John B. Pearce
Charles H. Church
Edmund E. Horton
George B. Coggeshall
Charles H. Allen
James Wilson
James F. Goff
Eliphalet C Horton
Lewis H. Church
William Holmes
Solon H. Smith
John H. Collins
John H. Adams
Charles H. Sanford
Henry F. Card
James Allyn
John F. Warren
Charles J Fales
Henry Butcher
Charles D Eddy
Benjamin R. Wilson
Henry Thiele
Lewis DeWolf
David A. Fish
Henry M. Slocum
Willam C Peckham
George W Maxfield
Theodore O Gladding
Richard S. Gladding
Thomas J Usher
Bristol
Said Avenue
Phgnix. Mn. Eartor
Isaac F. Williams
Wm. H. Spooner
Wm. T. C. Wardwell
J. P. Reynolds
N. N. Cole
Same
C. F. Herreshoff, Jr
Comig
Prozsrrs
William B. Phelps
William M. Phelps
Herbert F. Bennett
Rogers Free Library Adds Various Works for Week
New additions include Edmund Burke Works in nine volumes and Prior's Life of Burke. Also available Easy Lessons in Vegetable Biology Life of Peter the Great by Schuyler in two volumes. Other titles include Creators of the Age of Steel Jeans Ca thedral Towns of England Ireland Scotland The Invisible Lodge by J P Richter A Sailor's Sweetheart by Russell Grey Hawk Crofton Boys by H Martineau Beechcroft by Charlotte M Yonge and US 10th Census Volumes 3 and 4 Agriculture and Transportation.
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Rogers Free Library
Edmund Burke
Prior
Burke
Peter the Great
Schuyler
England
Ireland
Scotland
the Invisible Lodge
J. P . Richter
Russell Grey Hawk
Crofton Boys
H Martineau
Beechcroft
Charlotte M. Yonge
Town Officers Elected In Bristol Year 1884 Meeting
The Annual Town Meeting in Bristol opened Saturday at 10 a.m. under Moderator Messadore T Bennett. Elected were Isaac F Williams and others to the Town Council. many town officers, including Justices of the Peace, Town Treasurer John B Taylor, and Assessor of Taxes, were chosen. The council majority favored Williams. adjournments followed with further officer appointments and discussions on taxes and districts.
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Messadore T. Bennett
Herbert F. Bennett
P.st
Citizens
People’s Ticket
Isaac F. Williams
Mesaadore
T. Bennett
Williams
William H. Spooner
Esseree Ee
Edward W. Brunson
Spooner
William T. C. Wardwell
James Lawless
Wardwell
Charles F. Herreshoff, Jr
James A. Miller
Dod
Herreshoff
John P Reynolds
Ozro C. Barrows
Reynolds
Frederic A Warner
Bennett J. Munro
George T French
Isaac Liscomb
John B. Taylor
John B Taylor
James Hoard
Henry H. Bosworth
John A . Gladding
John H Gladding
Benjamin M. Lincoln
Clark H. Straight
Taxca
William T C Wardwell
Edward W Brunsen
Samuel D Wardwell
Isaac F Williames
Elisha M Wardwell
Henry Goff
Henry Herbert Bosworth
H H. Bosworth
Wm Williams
William Walliams
Corders
Wood
Charles V. Perry
James Connery
Nathan N. Cole
A. Frank Usher
Jonah F. Peckham
Joseph E. Simmons
William C Peckham
William H. Simmons
James D. Wardwell, Jr
Ezra Mason
Charles Paull
Charles H. Gooding
Thomas C. Church
Loring Coggeshall
James M. Gifford
Edward S. Babbitt
Chandler H. Coggeshall
William J. Miller
John P. Reynolds
E. F. Corrigan
C. J. Rogers
Henry Crocker
Otis Munro
John Lake
P. Skinner, Jr
J. H. Manchester
George A. Arnold
Seth W. Thayer
Parmenus Skinner
Pound Keepers
Hiram B
Richard S. Gladding
Elnathan P. Brownell
Edwin B. Reynolds, Jr
Seth Paull
John M. Coggeshall
John H. Gladding
James M. Gooding
William H. Manchester
Philip B. Bourn
Elisha M. Wardwell
Charles H. Spooner
John W. Monn
East Burial Ground
Silas H. Munro
North Burial Ground
John S. Ingraham
William F. Bowler
St. L'ts
Rogers Free Library
Samuel D. Wardwell
E. W. Branson
L. I. Williams
W. T. QO. Wardwell
Trinity Caurca
Trinity Church Corporation
J. P. Reynolds
H. F. Munro
Leb. Bradford
Charles W Perry
Thomas G. Holmes
Henry F. Card
W. Forman Willams
John H. H. Mott
J. H. Corthell
H. Orme
Henry C. Sayles
W. Forman Williams
John
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