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Brattleboro Men of Means Interested In Electric Street Cars

Event date: Oct 28, 1887

It is understood that some Brattleboro men of means are financially interested in the experiment of running street cars by electric storage batteries. It is confidently predicted that the next two or three years will see electricity generally used as a motive power for street cars, and when Brattleboro has a street railroad the cars will be run with this motive power supplied from the plant up on the brook.

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