Local Retail Listings Include Hardware and Provisions
A collage of shop names and addresses across Providence and Bristol notes merchants selling hardware grocer ies ship chandler y cordage paints oils and more. Entrants include R Taylon in Bristol R I Jacob Goodhart in Providence H Spooner Hope Street Crawford Easterbrooks at Unamea and Bradford and Shuman Ready Made Clothing on Main Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Taylon
Oils&c
Tusues Sr
Bristol
R. I
H. Spooner
Hope Street
Hope House
Crawford Easterbrooks
Roveries
Cofnar
Bradford
Prayer and notices amid 1858 Bristol scenes and odd notices
A Bristol May 1858 prayer note requests mercy and saving grace for souls, praising God with regional hymns. The page reports Thursday night snow in Bellows Falls Vermont and frosts in Stamford Connecticut, plus a judge in Evansville frees a man for multiple wives under age rules. It surveys Washington’s public works costs and Napa County resources including hot springs, borax lakes, and volcanic geology, ending with humorous lost and found notices and an odd tailor anecdote.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Napa
California
Mediterranean
Atlantic States
Mexico
Brazil
Car Lake
Napa Rivér
The Gift Enterprise or Drawing a Wife in a Lottery
A man narrates chasing a prize in a gift lottery offering twenty thousand dollars and a wife. He wins number 11569, hoping for a glamorous heiress but discovers the heiress is Miss Carrie Ethelinda Blackstone, niece of Miss Charity Billings, with twisty revelations about the spinster aunt posing as the heiress. He ends up marrying Carrie after a comical misjudgment about money and love.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathaniel‘Bigbes
Hind
Messrs
Habet, Dasher
Boston
Messrs. Shave & Co
State Street
Asmany
Mmind
Harberdasher
Miss Charity Billings
Miss Charity
Mies
Charity
Miss Billings
Ethelinda Black
Stone
Coventry
New York
Ape
Muetl
Lndy
Ian Lord
Ethelinda Blackstone
Gift Enterprise
Ethelinda
Carrie Blackstone
Carrie
Indy
Carrie Ethelinda
Asi
Tam
The Child Angel at the Nelson Hotel by the Sea
In a seaside resort, Antoinette Haydon, a three year old, inspires transformation in the rough servant Loose Ben as she asks daily if he loves and prays to God. Her gentle faith softens him, leading to his conversion and later return to grace after her death, ending with a preacher’s reflection on eternal reward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nolaon Hotel
Hayden
Sturrict
Warner
Volve
New England
Antoinette Suyden
Little Antoinette
Ben
Mr. Haydon
Little Antoinatte
Yaas
Nettie
Jock
Hotel
Sam
Antoinette
Billy
Goat
Luis
Mike
God
Hjs
John Unydon
Haydon
Hower
Noaigh
Elept
Ae Cho
Taydon
Christ
Carriot
Jesus
Esida
Jésus
Wes
Also Mentioned on This Page
Che
Bristol - Phenix
Batorpay
WLS, Bayley
Eee
Tom aD.ars
Awau
Ehalfs
VANCE
Salima Pwbalgieupenson
Siigle
Pierge
Irey
Joseplius Gooding
Hope
State Streets
Daniel Tanner
Statestreet
R. 1
Otis Munro
Mern Meal
Thames and
George W. Fraprie
North Mainstreet
Fall River
Massachusetts
Joan Allen
AcgExt
James P. Pierce
Joain B. Munro
Braden Street
Geo. H. Wintney
Westminster Street
Providence
R. L
Thames Street
Charles II, Phelps
the Golden Eagle
Sixth Avenue
John O. Ford
Franklin
Josiah Gladding
Bradford Street
Benjamin M. Lincoln
Sweet & Butts
Jacob Goodhart
Westminster
Exchange Street
Eine Carmen Deeb
Ech
Assimeres
Exkins
George Tilley
Potter & Brother
Thomas E. Steere
Shuman
Fashionedie
Bouth Main Street
Provience
J . N. Burgess
Drurry
Drege
Pete Pomeine
Gieford Pnalianes
Ann Gesten
Bs Ik
Mest
Japan
Thames Stree
Benjamin W Tilley
Franklin Market
Thames St
Franklin St
Phenix
Rev Ivans
Earth
Cc. H
Bellows Falls
Stamford
Hartford
Evansville
Indiana
Richard Webb
Washington
Treasury
Patent Office
Post Office
Washington Aqueduct
New World
London
United States
Military Asylum
the Child Angel
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