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A week ago to-day Agent Judson, of the Harkness Fire Extinguisher, at Chicago, gave an exhibition of their extinguisher before a number of insurance men, which was thoroughly satisfactory, and demonstrated the worth of the extinguisher for subduing a fire and preventing whatever the fluid touches from igniting again.
A committee from New Britain, Conn., to witness the steam engine test at Somerville, Mass., June 20, were so impressed with the wonderful results of the trial of the new steamer, that a contract was immediately closed with R. Denne, the New England agent of the Silsby Manufacturing Company, for a similar steamer to be delivered to that city as soon as it can be manufactured.
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