Quintal Receives 3 Months Jail Term In Federal Liquor Case
Frank Quintal proprietor of 228 Thames Street Bristol was sentenced in U S District Court Providence by Judge Ira Lloyd Letts to three months in Providence County Jail and a $500 fine for a third offence charge of possessing intoxicating liquor. The fine is suspended and he is placed on three years probation to start after jail term.
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Frank Quintal
U. S
United States District Court
Providence
Ira Lloyd Letts
Thames Street
Quintal
Firemen's Ball at State Armory Draws Guests
The committee for the fire department ball at the State Armory foot of Church Street, one week from tonight May 2, reports many out of town guests will attend. A large banner with flaming red letters announces the hall spanning Hope Street at Court and John Streets.
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Fire Department
State Armory
Church Street
Hope Street
Court
John Streets
Fire crews tackle chimney and roof blazes at local buildings
Fire companies responded to a general alarm for a chimney fire at 379 Wood Street owned by Edward J. Quirk. Earlier a small fire on a barn roof behind Mrs Manuel Brum Cardoza's Fort Hill Bristol Neck residence was put out by booster tanks. Later the roof fire at the Quirk grocery at State and Wood streets was doused by workers rebuilding a chimney.
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Edward J. Quirk
Wood Street
District No. 12
Manuel Brum Cardoza
Fort Hill
Bristol Neck
Edward J Quirk
State and
Wood Streets
Sinai tablets reveal laborers' complaint to Goddess Unthor
Undeciphered tablets found near Mount Sinai twenty years ago show a Semitic workers' grievance aimed at the goddess Unthor. The inscription is only partly deciphered, with details of labor conditions and local mining.
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Mount Sinai
Doubtful Reward You Are Patient The Man Who Says
An old Toledo Blade aphorism notes that a person who claims ignorance may reveal truths if pressed. The remark frames caution about rumors and the value of patient inquiry.
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Toledo Blade
Death of Warren Contractor Thomas J. Loughran
Thomas J. Loughran, in his 70th year, a prominent Warren contractor, died unexpectedly at home. Born in 1860 in Warren, he built many structures in Bristol County and recently joined the town’s finance committee. Funeral services are to be held tomorrow morning.
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Thomas J. Loughran
Warren
Bristol
Miss Emma W. Peckham Dies at 21 Constitution Street
Emma Willey Peckham 1862 yester day afternoon at 21 Constitution street in Providence after a period of ill health. She was born in town June 24 1862 and lived here all her life. An attendant at the First Congregational Church she belonged to church societies. She leaves brothers Benjamin F Peckham and Josiah F Peckham of Providence and a sister Mrs Ralph Kinder of Bala. Funeral from her residence tomorrow afternoon with Rev H D Graetz officiating. Interment in North Cemetery.
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Emma W. Peckham
Emma Willey Peckham
Josiah F
Elizabeth (Robertson) Peckham
Constitution Street
Peckham
First Congregational Church
Benjamn F Peckham
Josiah F Peckham
Providence
Ralph Kinder
Bala
H D . Graetz
Congregational Church
North
Mrs Ladie Sanner West Rears in Providence
Mrs Sarah A Hamid Sanner West wife of the late Llewellyn West died Monday in Providence. Funeral services were held yesterday from her son Halris West’s home at 81 McKinley Street to St Matthew's Church for a requiem mass. A Bristol resident for years she was a niece of the late Mrs Peter Dermody and is remembered by friends in Bristol.
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Ladie Sanner West
Mirs
Sarah A
Hamid Sanner West
Llewellyn No West
Providence
Halris Ao West
McKinley Street
St Matthew's Church
West
Bristol
Peter Dermody
Congregational Street
Births announced for Bisbano Burke and Vermette families
In this town on April 19 a4 a son Ignazio Joseph Bisbano was born to Mr and Mrs Annunziate Bisbano of 594 Woodstrout. In Fall River on April 20 at Truesdale Hospital a daughter Lorra ine Clarissa Burke was born to Mr and Mrs William Burke, granddaughter to Mr and Mrs Alphonse Vermette.
Obituary notices for Barbato Loughran Walles Peekhany and West residents
In this town on April 22 Francesco Barbato aged 87, in Warren on the same date Thomas J Loughran aged 70, in this town on April 24 Emma Walles Peekhany aged 68. Mrs Sarah Lanner Waostyite of the West region, formerly of Shewellyn, is noted as a late resident.
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Peckeenmn
Emma Walles Peekhany
Providence
Sarah Lanner Waostyite
Shewellyn
West
This Town
El lis Island Expanded to Twenty One Acres
The immigration base initially covered a little over three acres and has grown to 21 acres through additions from time to time. Much of the material used for enlargement came from foreign sources and ballistic ships. The island now includes earth from nearly every seaboard country in Europe.
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Ellis Island
Europe
Frills-Free Lumber Camp Dining in Maine Woods
Lewistown Journal describes Maine lumber camps where meals are served in plain tin dishes with no courses or fancy tableware. Workers shout for meals and help themselves from large pots while keeping dishes in huge pans after eating.
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Maine
Lumber Camp
Greenhorn
Lewistop Journal
Scottish Judge Eskgrove's Theatrics on the Bench
A Montreal Star note recalls Lord Eskgrove a century ago for lavish rhetoric on the bench. The Scots judge’s ornate framing in sentencing a tailor and two criminals is cited as a caution against loquacious judicial style.
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Lord Eskgrove
Eskgrove
Montreal
Simple sodium chlorate spray cures ground ivy in lawns
A simple remedy for ground ivy uses a single spray of sodium chlorate mixed at 1 to 2 ounces per gallon of water. The solution covers about 100 square feet per gallon with a pressure sprayer, or slightly more if using a sprinkling can. Leaves must be fully coated and application can occur in summer or fall, though grass may discolor briefly. late fall may be best.
English Poets Laureate Origin and Early History
The origin of the English poet laureate is obscure. Early usage equated laureate with eminent in a literary sense. Medieval kings employed poets attached to households with pensions, not official appointments. Ben Jonson is seen as the first laureate in practice, though the title was not formally conferred. John Dryden received the title by letters patent in 1670, making the post a regular institution.
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England
Ben Jonson
John Dryden
Inspection Day at the Barracks
The orderly reviews Private Brown's packing and gear, noting three shirts two pairs of boots and two pairs of socks. When asked where the bar is Brown replies that he has lost it, amid the orderly's brisk questions.
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Brown
Tve
London
Salisbury Clock Might Be England’s Earliest Turret Timepiece
In Salisbury Cathedral's west chamber lies a rusty mechanism dating to 1386, possibly England's oldest turret clock. It predates Wells clock by six years, and features a hand wheel for winding the going train. A tile work would revive its mechanism at little cost.
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Salsburs
England
Science Museum
South Kensington
Salisbury
Dinner Time Resolve in Polite Lesson
A mother praises Betty for politeness but at dinner Betty refuses more pudding with a firm "No fear, mother." The joke rests on her comic insistence that refusing pudding is an expression of fear rather than politeness.
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Betty
Mortgagee's Sale Notice for Bristol Rhode Island Property
Public auction planned for the mortgagee's sale of Lot No. 4 in Bristol Rhode Island part of United States Rubber Company parcel. The deed dates to 1927 and property includes all buildings and improvements on Lot No. 4 bounded by Wood Street and Catherine Street. John A. Tillinghast, attorney, lists the holder and bids at sale.
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Satur Haas Way
Emeo Proto
Maddalena Proto
Beistel
Bristol
Rhode Island
United Statea Rubber Company
Wow Perrys
Lord
Eaid Betstol
Hook
Sindlot
Wood Street
Catherine Street
Domenico Proto
United States Rubber Company
John A. Tillinghast
Providence
Holden
Philip Rothberg
New Bedford
Massachusetts
Manuel Perry
Bristol County
Franklin St
James F Meiggs
John Doe
Ofristol Bristol
United States Rubber Co of
Wo W. Perry
Narragansett Rubber Company
Bristol County Court House
Eanstern
James F. Mbeiggs
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