Vine growth influenced by electricity, Dr Macagno reports
Dr M Macagno notes experiments on electricity affecting vine growth in Les Mondes. An electric circuit drawn by copper wire between a branch tip and root increased wood formation in the fruiting branch, with grapes ripening faster and sweeter. The Kansas Board report adds that eastern Kansas and neighboring regions were once a freshwater lake with turbid water deposits forming thick sediments.
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M. Macagno
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
Rhede Iceland Institute Meeting at Providence 1882
The thirty seventh annual Rhede Iceland Institute of Instruction gathers in Providence for January 12 14 1882. Free return rail and steamer tickets issued to members. admission tickets for Friday evening at Music Hall available from the Committee of Arrangements or the Public Schools Commissioner office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhede Iceland Institute of Instruction
Providence
Bristol Road
Fall River
Music Hall
Committee of Arrangements
Commissioner of Public Schools
Boston Journal mocks tariff convention call
The Boston Journal ridicules the Industrial League's push for a tariff convention in Chicago while arguing Congress should pursue a thorough tariff revision to simplify laws, expand the free list, and lower duties. It questions whether the haste reflects free trade aims or self interest.
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The
Boston Journal
Industrial League
Congress
Chicago
American inventions and failures in trade and patents
The column notes 1859 business failures reported by R G Dun Co totaling 6582 with liabilities of 81 157 932 a rise of 847 in failures and fifteen and a half million in bad debts The piece praises American ingenuity and machinery in world markets and the profits of legitimate trade despite high U S labor costs It endorses patent protection and recommends patent solicitor R H Eddy of Boston for guidance on American and European patents and related protections
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Messrs. R. G. Dun & Co
Europe
Paris
Vienna
R. H. Eddy
State Street
Boston
Sunday School Officers to be Chosen at State Street Church
The Board of the Sunday School of the State Street M E Church will hold its annual meeting this Saturday evening in the vestry at 7 o'clock to choose officers. Public night schools in town began last Monday with fair attendance and eager learners in one class appreciating efforts made for them.
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Greenwich Print Works
Greenwich
William Kelloway
London
England
Advent
State Street M. E
St. Michael’s Church
State Street M. FE
Sheerness
John Samuel White
Herreshoff
White
Gallia
Liverpool
William Houston Stewart
Navy
J. B. Herreshoff
Mr. Borror
Warren
Jesse Davis
Elijah
Carmel
Bristol
G. B.C
Review
Haylock & Co
Dey Street
New York
Mercantile Review
National Eagle Bank
BR. I
J. G. Watson
Peter Gladding
Chien
Waitiary Sud
Aaron
Pripatine
Aton Boretes Brooks
Samuel
Drury
Hannah W. P Drury
Samuel S. Drury
Bristol Pheenix
Peesek Court
Robert S. Andrews
Robert S Andrews
Prs
Levi Horton
William
Taylor
Bristol, Phoenix
Probiate (Ierk
TUT
Byfield School
Jin Mary
W. Woodward
Rogers Free Library Additions For The Week
The library welcomes new titles this week including Books and Reading by President Porter and Orations Essays and Sermons by J Lewis Diman. Also added are Six Months in the Sandwich Islands by Isabella Bird Richard Cobden's Life by John Morley Can You Forgive Her by Trollope Drake and Anson's Voyages and Dr Gilbert's Daughters.
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Ga Rogers Free Library
President Porter
J. Lewis Diman
The
Sandwich Islands
Isabella Bird
Richard Cobden
John Morley
Trollope
Drake and Anson
Dr. Gilbert
Watch Meeting Ushers in 1882 at State Street Church
A watch gathering was held in the vestry of State Street M E Church last Saturday night to bid farewell to the old year and greet the new. The event began at 9 PM and ran past midnight, with the church bell and several town bells ringing at 12 to mark the year 1882.
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State Street
M E
St. Michael’s Church
George Hazard Pearse
Pearse
St. Michael’s
Yellow Sea
Haylock & CO
America
Dey Street
New York
Year 1881 Coal Vessels At The Port Record
In 1881 fifty five vessels brought coal to the port averaging 358 tons each totaling 19 698 tons. Of this 11 293 tons were for manufacturing and 8 420 tons for domestic use. The smallest cargo was 108 tons and the largest 880 tons. The first arrival was January 7 and the last December 31.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John B. Herreshoff
Nathaniel G. Herreshoff
Herreshoff Manufacturing Company
Bristol
R.I
Admiralty
John Samuel White
Herreshoff
England
Portsmouth
White
Sheerness
Board of Examiners
Real estate sales in town reach 79 parcels in 1881
In 1881 the town saw 79 parcel sales totaling 56,400.75 dollars. Monthly totals run from January 2,660 to December 6,750, with the year’s sum breaking down across months. A decade overview lists yearly sales and amounts from 1871 to 1880, showing fluctuations in volume and value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ReEca Priv la Tison
Htee
Land Transfers in Dec 1881 Bean Estate records
Property transactions list several sales: Otis Munro acquires a Hope Street east side lot with improvements from Mary R Morse et al. Marmaduke Mazon sells Lincoln Avenue south side lot to Thomas Downey for 400 dollars. Other transfers include Coyle siblings to Catarine and Mary Coyle for 175, Pearse to Coggeshalf for 100, Munro to Spooner for 350, Mason to Henderson for 175, Mason to Warren for 100, William Williams trustee to Ruth Ann Maxfield, and Slade with Mason spouses to Mason for 2250 on the Back road area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wood Street
Bay View Avenue
Wilson's Lane
Thomas Pearse
Juliet E. Cogges
Franke E. Spooner
Usher Place
Marmaduke Mason
Thomas Henderson
Franklin Street
Lincoln Avenue
Woodtreet
John F. Warren
William Williams
Ruth Ann Maxfield
Ira P. Slade
Sarah C. Mason
Ball at Infantry Armory and probate session notes
The C T A Society held a grand ball at the Infantry Armory in Wood Street with Herrick's Band from Providence providing music despite stormy weather. The Town Council and Court of Probate met Monday, appointing administrators for several estates, granting sales of real estate, approving guardian actions, and setting notices for unsettled accounts.
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C. T. A. Society
Infantry
Wood Street
Herrick
Providence
Town OF
Bristol
Peter Gladding
Probate
R. 1
Deaths in town: fifty-nine aged seventy and more
A year 1881 in the town recorded thirty persons deceased aged seventy and upward with an average around 75. Names and ages are listed including Billings Waldron 90 Aaron Easterbrooks 78 Charles Matthews 90 Annita Slade 76 Ruth G Holmes 89 Joshua Peckham 177 and others ages from 6 to 90. The list notes Martha Oxx 86 and Miriam Spooner 79 among the deceased. The column presents a community mortality tally and the names of those who died.
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Necro Lacy
Billings Waldron
Aaron Easterbrooks
Charles Matthews
Annita Slade
Ruth G. Holmes
Joshua Peckham
Timothy Coggeshall
Benjamin Wilson
Martha Oxx
Nathaniel M.oxx
Cath’ne Whittenton
William Toye
Eliza
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Exchange Place
Providence, R. I
William McCormick
Elizabeth McCorusn
Rhode Island
Sanito
Constitution Street
San Bristol
Tulluwa
Maurtua
William A. Manchester
Framis Bout
Lemuel
A. Bishop
Charles Pepper
Patrick Hutiimett
Tee Liteon
Samuel D. Wardwell
Gonee
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