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Summary

Description
English: Advertisement from the Rhode Island Electric Protective company offering a telegraph time service synchornized to clocks from Ladd Observatory. Providence Sunday Journal. Sept. 23, 1900.

Original text:

What Time Is It?
Our Standard Time
Is Computed from Ladd Observatory
And Is Furnished Throughout Providence and Pawtucket by the
R. I. Electric Protective Co.,
Central Station, 32 Custom House Street.
Date
Source "What Time Is It?". Providence Sunday Journal. September 23, 1900.
Author Staff writer(s); no by-line.
Camera location 41° 49′ 26.65″ N, 71° 24′ 32.8″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap. View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap info

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Captions

Advertisement for Ladd Observatory time signals

23 September 1900 Gregorian

41°49'26.65"N, 71°24'32.80"W