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��of Warsaw," were here reproduced, and sent broadcast over the land. In the little shops in the village were made the tall clocks which now find an honored place in the homes of rich and poor, their value certified to by the name of

��Here Jacob B. Moore lived and labored. Here Dr. John Farmer, the apothecary, awoke an interest throughout New Eng- land in historical subjects, and wrote books of vast value to succeeding gen- erations. Here lived Philip Carrigain,

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��Hutchins or Chandler, their makers. Here was commenced the first manu- factory of reed organs ; here the elder Downing and Abbot made their cele- brated wagons and coaches ; and some assert that the electric telegraph was conceived by Professor Morse during his sojourn in the town as a young artist.

��to whom is due the credit of making the first complete map of the State. Hither came all the governors to be in- augurated on election-day with impos- ing ceremonies, — some in their coaches ; others, unattended, with democratic simplicity, would come on horseback. The echoes of the old court-house have

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