Electric power in elevators proves cheaper and safer
Electricity is applied to elevator operation via a dynamo electric machine, claimed to be cheaper, more convenient, and safer than hydraulics. Other notes describe electric lighting on Rhine riverways, Celtic tomb discoveries near Lichtenwald, a giant Siberian rhinoceros find, widespread telephone networks, Eva Chamberlain the whistling soloist, seed trade ads, and a Greenwich Observatory sun duration recorder. plus an article about New England manufacturers planning a large exhibition building to be finished in July.
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Oliver’s Musical Fame Over Public Roles Highlighted
In a Washington letter from March 9 1881 the writer notes Gen Oliver’s lasting legacy as a musician rather than Ex-Mayor of Salem. He composed the tune Federal Street and led it at a Boston Jubilee event, with strong church and choir appeal. He also chaired the Massachusetts Building music committee at the Centennial, organizing fine concerts.
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Local Notes and Obituaries From Spring Yearly Notices
Full moon next Tuesday and Saint Patrick's Day next Thursday mark the calendar. Rev J J Johnson ends his rectorate at Trinity Church this Sunday drawing farewell wishes from friends. The Union Railroad Co Providence holds its ninth annual horse auction at Elmwood on April 7 with private sales after April 16 until auction day. Captain Josiah H Pitman died in Fall River at age 81. once a packet master from the port, born in the town May 14 1799 and a resident of Fall River since 1836.
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Union, Railroad Co
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Fall River
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Soper
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Wm. Soper
Pitman
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Newport
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Wondaly
Little Compton
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Florion
Rehobth
Mass
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Bristol
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Elizabeth
Smith
George J. Smith
Anid
Peter Gladding
Pesan
Eliza Coggeshall
James F. Coggeshall
Eliza J. Coggeshall
Chandler H. Coggeshall
Sail
Bristol Phanix
Library adds Goethe works and more for week
The SG Rogers Free Library announces new acquisitions including Life and Times of Goethe Campaigning on the Oxus and the Fall of Khiva Hereditary Genius by Galton Heroes of Christian History Wilberforce Moss Side by Marion Harland The Heir of Kilfinnan by Kingston What Girls can do Donations include Martyrdom of Elijah P Lovejoy Bi-Centennial of Bristol and The Legal Rights of Children A mass meeting of the Davitt Land League was held in Town Hall with strong turnout and notable speakers. Administration matters and town finances were reviewed with various accounts approved and a council adjournment set for 14th inst. The Supreme Court opened in Bristol with cases heard and judgments rendered.
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Rogers Free Library
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Oxus
Khiva
Galton
Wilberforce
Marion Harland
Kilfinnan
Kingston
Elijah P. Lovejoy
Henry Tanner
Bristol
Bureau of Education
Tue Marca Ter
Supreme Court
Brigigl County
Durfee
Matteson
Daniel L. Turner
Warren
Colt
Louis W. Kunze
John A
Gladding
Assumpsit
D. Ballou
Colwell & Colt
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Reel
Lyman B. Bosworth
J.C. Gallup
Providence
Freeborn G. Smith
Lewis T. Fisher
Providence County
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Sylvanus M. Lewis
James W. McDonald
John A. Perry
David A. Waldron
Henry T. Wilcox
Bank of Bristol
DeWolf
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Manuel B. Silvey
George L. West
Richard BR. Magee
Arthur Loughran
E. A. Mason
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Ida G. M. Dixon
James Dixon
Abby J. Norris
Thomas L. Norris
William’j. Boner
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Inventor Reynolds born Bristol dies at Bristol
Sacer Georney Berxoips, son of Greenwood and Mary Reynolds, born Bristol March 9 1801, died March 61 188%. A self taught inventor, he created a nail and spike machine, a pin machine, and later a steam plough and rotary plough. His career, full of trials, saw failures abroad and in America, yet he persisted, building machines in Providence New York London and Paris, and influencing multiple manufacturing fields. He married twice, both wives from Pomfret and Syracuse, and he died in Bristol. The piece notes his motto Labor omnia vincet and cites a granite monument to his contributions.
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Bristol
Jonathan Peck
New Hampshire
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L.gc. Richmond
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West
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Pomfret
Conn
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