Bristol Trichinosis Strikes Pittsburgh Family
A Bristol newspaper note reports a family in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, stricken by trichinosis. Mayor Hewitt of New York was installed on Saturday. Five colored Baptist missionaries left New York on Monday for Africa. Goshen accepts leadership vacated by Lord Randolph in the British cabinet. Boston records show thirty seven persons and corporations taxed on at least one million dollars.
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Resignation of Connecticut Rhode Island Banking Examiner
A. B. Mygatt, national bank examiner for Connecticut and Rhode Island, has resigned after holding the office for twenty one years. The report notes his long tenure and departure from the post. A Berlin physician Dr W D Miller is conducting experiments on how lime salts in food affect tooth hardness, showing variation in teeth based on dietary minerals.
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Scribners Magazine sews up demand with rapid sellouts
Notes from a periodical milestone as Scribners Magazine first January issue sells 100000 copies and depletes stocks by December 18 with 140000 copies sold to date. Elevated-rail and hotel newsstands report brisk daily sales, while dealers on ferries move hundreds of copies on the first day. The piece also covers a bank safe incident in Wilkes-Barre and a meteor dust claim debunking.
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Lake dwellers and their lake cities across Europe
The text surveys prehistoric pile dwellings near lakes in Switzerland and other regions including Italy Austria Hungary and Savoy. It notes about two hundred Swiss lake villages with roughly three hundred huts each, some housing twelve to fourteen hundred people. Ages range from about three thousand to seven thousand years. Mention is made of Thracian platforms and modern pile dwellings in New Guinea Borneo Celebes and Russia.
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Trade Review Warns of Disheartenment and Rising Credit
Br B G Dex Co weekly review notes 1886 opened with disheartenment but year end shows cautious confidence. Failures declined modestly from 1885 yet quarter 1886 saw higher failures and liabilities, up to 44 percent. recent month highlights large credit expansions and speculation, suggesting firms overreached to recoup losses and unresolved unsound commercial credits loom.
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Washington Letter 1887 Reflections on Logan Death and New Year
From Our Regular Correspondent in Washington the piece notes Gen Logan’s funeral on state in the Capitol rotunda and the public sympathy. It describes New Year receptions at the Capitol, references surviving ex-presidents, and recalls Conkling’s attendance at the Logan ceremonies. It cites a fundraising fund for Logan’s widow and comments on Congress and administration finances.
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Industrial Failures in 1886 Show Slight Drop From 1885
Mercantile Agency data up to December 31 1886 reports 9834 U S business failures down from 10637 in 1885. Total liabilities decline to 114 million dollars from 124 million. Traders in business rise to 969 841 with one failure per 98 traders, vs 86 in 1885. Average liability per failure barely dips to 11651 from 11678. Last quarter 1886 saw 2746 failures and 37 million in liabilities, vs 2460 and 25 million in 1885.
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Germany uses microphone to trace water leaks in pipes
In Germany a microphone is now used to locate leaks in water pipes with the faintest trickle becoming clearly audible when the device is near. Advertising copy promotes Kilmer's Indian Root or Cough Cure as instant relief for cold cough croup cankered throat and catarrh with prices listed at 25c 50c and 100c.
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Local Affairs and Community Happenings
Local notes report a new barn erected by Simeon Gray on Metacom Avenue and busy oystermen at the Narrows despite cold fingers. Sermons and services mark the weekend with Rev Barrett at First Baptist and fasting at Congregational Church. Registry tax deadline looms as voters prepare, while a meteor graces Monday evening skies. A cat aged twenty one is highlighted, and a New Year’s Eve ball plus open mass for the new year occur at local venues. A bronze door plate from Michigan is praised and a widow receives her late husband’s pension. Shipping arrivals for 1886 list steamers and schooners, with 1008 total vessels. A watch meeting at State Street ME Church ends with a 12 o clock bell toll and a look back at the ice-heavy winter of 1836-51 and Bristol cotton shipments to Providence.
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Ull Rev AP Palanoy
Deaths in Town During December 1886
The whole number of deaths in this town during December 1886 was eight, consisting of six adults and two children. There were four males and four females. The oldest decedent was eighty three years and ten months, the youngest one year six months and twenty seven days. Two decedents were under two, three were aged sixty to sixty nine, one was sixty to seventy, and one was eighty to ninety.
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School committee appoints primary school staff changes
At a Monday meeting the School Committee elected Miss Hattie Fales as principal of the South Primary, transferred Miss Arabella Coggeshall from North to West Primary, and elected Miss Madaline R Thurston as assistant teacher at the North Primary School.
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Arabella Coggeshall
Madaline R Thurston
Sunday School Christmas Festival at Advent Church Chapel
The Sunday School connected with the Advent Church held its Christmas festival in their chapel on New Year’s Eve. A good sized gathering attended despite bad weather. Exercises included recitations, singing chalk talk by Elder W. Tenney of Danielsonville, Conn, and distribution of presents. It was a pleasant and highly interesting occasion for all participants.
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Voters Register Nearly Half of Town Expected Total
On Friday December 31 1886 the Town Clerk stayed late to register voters for 1887. Ninety people registered that day bringing the total to 420 of 625 possible. Fourteen three paid the registry tax. In 1885 there were 422 registrants. If all registered taxes are paid the qualifying voters reach about 1050.
Vick's Floral Guide 1887 Featured for Beauty and Color
Lovers of art and floriculture are offered a rich treat in Vick's Floral Guide for 1887. Each year improves, with an exterior and layout far ahead of prior issues and a vast variety of subjects thoroughly treated. The title illustration of pansies and color pages of Border and Bedding Plants shine as chromo lithographs, with hundreds of smaller, naturalistic illustrations well described.
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Port Ledger Reports 1886 Lumber, Coal Totals And A Hat Mystery
The port's 1886 lumber landed totaled 336000 feet with additional 60000 laths 220000 shingling pieces and 5000 fence pickets. Coal arrivals reached 20984 tons from 46 vessels with 8054 tons for domestic use and 12920 for manufacturing. A Christmas hat found near Metacom and Bay View avenues by H H Munro prompts questions about a possible Emma Pearcon case.
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Wessels
Rhode Island Patents Granted January 4 1886
The United States Patent Office lists Rhode Island citizens granted patents on January 4 1886 as reported to the Prastx by Franklin H. Hough solicitor. Names include George A Carpenter Providence with Coupling for Electric Contacting Wires and A W Lawyer Providence with a cuff-holder.
Charter Oak engraving gifted to Rogers Free Library
An engraving of historic Charter Oak, from a 1857 Brownell painting, is presented with an accompanying volume on its history. The work was completed after the death of ex Governor Jewell who owned the painting and prepared an engraving and descriptive manual. Seventeen people died in town that year including several aged around 70.
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