Town Meeting Votes New School House and Tax Breaks
The adjourned financial town meeting met Saturday at 10.00 am and approved building a new 25 000 school house and funding for Kiremen sa Day 500 and Pappasquash road repairs 500. It also exempted manufacturing property with capital stock at least 50 000 from taxes for ten years and repealed prior inconsistent votes. Gov Norris reports Rev Louis O Sanford a Bristol native popular locally has accepted a rector call at St Johns Episcopal Church San Francisco.
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Pappasquash
Samuel Norris
Louis O. Sanford
Bristol
St. John’s Episcopal Church
San Francisco
Bettie of Boston to be used for excursion voyages
Capt. Henry Slocum has purchased the schooner yacht Bettie of Boston and will run her for excursion parties this coming summer. In town last week were Charles O. Parker of Salem Mass and others. Mrs. A. O. Bourn’s villa reception drew notable American society and English visitors. The Consul-General’s wife is popular in Rome. Governor Bourn to inspect all Italian consulates. Capt. James Lawless and Hezekiah W. Church visited Chester to view the Fall River and New York line steamer launch. Samuel D. Wardwell elected First Representative and James O. Church Second Representative at the adjourned town meeting. Easter election at St. Michael’s Church yielded church officers and vestrymen. Delegates to Convention named.
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Phoenix
Henry Slocum
Bettie
Boston
Charles O. Parker
Salem
Maas
A. O. Bourn
Villa Campanale
New York
Paris Herald
Rome
Bourn
Italy
South
James Lawless
Hezekiah W. Church
Chester
Peann
Fall River
Lawless
Samuel D. Wardwell
James O. Church
General Assembly
St. Michael's Church
Johnathan OD. Waldron
Japier
Thomas J. Usher
John H.pitman
Andrew R. Trotter
Edward
Babbitt
William T. O. Wardwell
John H. Pitman
Herbert ¥. Bennett
Allen G. Wright
Andrew R Trotter
William F. Williams
Henry S. Swan
Alfred Luther
John H. Manchester
Samuel P. Colt
Augustus O Bourn
J. A. Pitman
Bristol Train of Artillery elects officers at annual meeting
Ex Colonel Burgess presided as Bristol Armory hosted the Bristol Train of Artillery annual meeting. Officers elected for the coming year include Col George A Bush Lt Col William Hodgkinson Major Ernest Meiggs Captain Frank Nichols Lieut Andrew Meiggs Clerk William Mowry and Sergeants Danbar Danbar Church Congdon Wales and others. Also thanked Col O H Straight for eight years of command. Bristol High School Roll of Honor and absent notations listed for students and public school attendees ending March 28 1880. Various names appear across grades First Intermediate Etienne Hazard Lillian Reed and others.
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Alfred Uther
Frederic Kladding
Edward Anthony
John W. Best
Raymond F. Taylor
Edward S. Babbitt
Bristol Train of Artillery
Artilleary Armory
J B.burgess
Otheers
George A. Bush
William Hodgkinson
Ernest Meiggs
Frank
Grace Paull
Mattie Paull
Edith Williston
Belen Turner
Annie Lindsey
Lillie Peckham
Janior
Lizzie Moffitt
Emma Stanton
May OC
Spooner
Phoenix High School
J.B. Congdon
Charles L. Hammill
Harriet Soule
William Connery
Helen Hazard
Maggie McKale
Alfred Slade
Frank Thurston
Robert Young
First Intermediate
Etienne Hazard
Lillian Reed
Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets Promised at Local Rexall Store
The Hope Street Rexall Store promotes Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets for indigestion. Each tablet uses Bismuth Subnitrate and Pepsia to soothe an irritable stomach, strengthen digestion, and relieve nausea. Three sizes priced 26 cents, 60 cents, and one dollar with a money back guarantee. Hope Drug Co. Bristol store.
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Rexall
Bristol
Hope Drag Co
Hope Street
A Daring Argument by a Clever Lawyer
A witty lawyer saved a guilty client from a poisoning verdict by declaring the cakes harmless and eating one in court. He fled to a nearby room with emetic and antidote, but the jury never heard of them as the client was acquitted.
Odd Fellows sermon honors 91st anniversary rites
Rev. Alfred S. Stowell preached an engaging sermon before United Brothers Lodge No 18 and Reba Rebekah Degres Lodge No 12 at First Baptist Church in commemorating the Independent Order of Odd Fellows 91st anniversary in the United States. Members paraded from Odd Fellows Hall to the church, wore white carnations, sang hymns, and heard Scripture from First Corinthians. The pastor spoke on the order's principles, especially Love, and the service ended with benediction.
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Alfred S. Stowell
First Baptist Church
United Brothers Lodge
Reba Rebekah
God
First Corrinthians
America
Stowell
Bachelor girls visit Woodlawn cemetery in search of backdrop for romance
In a vivid pass of social humor a New York Press remark follows bachelor girls through Woodlawn cemetery. They stop on a bridge over a lake to admire the well kept banks and the willow shadowing the island, joking about burying husbands and weeping at their graves.
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Trousseau
Woodlawn
New York Press
Minstrelsy In Bostonese at a Theatre Event
A Chicago Tribune item reports a staged exchange on scholarly performance featuring Epictetus as the exemplar, with Professor Wendell Osgoodson announced to recite a monologue titled The Apotheosis of the Ephemeral, highlighting a blend of classical philosophy and dramatic narration in a Boston setting.
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Wendell Osgoodson
Chicago Tribune
Stevenson’s Cup of Misery and Health Struggles
In a 1893 epistle to George Meredith quoted in his Letters, R. L. Stevenson recalls fourteen years of poor health and exhausting labor, writing through illness and coughing while his battlefield remains a dingy bed and the medicinal bottle rather than trumpetings and open air.
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Stevenson
R. L. Stevenson
George Meredith
Pacific
How to Know the Beverly Twins
The Beverly twins Fred and Frank are exact counterparts. Neighbors and even their mother find it hard to tell them apart. Their mother notes she can distinguish them by their voices when a pantry noise leads to one answering as Fred or Frank.
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Beverly
Fred
Frank
Addressing Mrs Pinkham for Women's Ills Help
This appeal invites women to consult Mrs Pinkham for advice on women’s diseases. It notes the 25 years of her experience, the continuity after Lydia E Pinkham’s death, and the private, cost-free guidance offered without unnecessary questions or examinations.
Women urged to write Mrs Pinkham for private illness help
Women suffering from any form of female weakness are invited to promptly communicate with Mrs. Pinkham at Lynn Massachusetts. Letters are received opened read and answered by women. A woman can freely talk of her private illness to a woman and confidence is maintained.
Rhode Island Bridge Act Approved by Congress
An act introduced by Hon William L Sheffield and approved April 16 authorizes Warren and Barrington Rhode Island to build and operate a bridge without a draw over the Palmers or Warren River near their existing bridge. The act reserves the right to alter amend or repeal and to require a suitable draw at the owners expense if navigation demands.
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House of Representatives
William L. Sheffield
Warren
Barrington
Rhode Island
Palmers
Warren River
Senate
Houses of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
Kidney illness warning and Doan's remedy endorsement
An old Bristol notice urges readers to check kidney health by observing urine color and sediment. It promotes Doan's Kidney Pills as effective, with a testimonial from Samuel Lindsey of Bristol and a claim of relief from backache and kidney secretions after using J H Young & Co Drug Store and Doan's, priced at 50 cents. Milburn Co., Buffalo, NY, is named as sole US agent.
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Doan
Bright
Bristol
Samuel Lindsey
Church St
KR. L
J. H. Young & Co
Doe
Dean
Milburn Co
Buffalo
New York
United States
Stage Dreams Delayed by Managers and Mean Tricks
In a chatty exchange a performer frets about going on stage. The question prompts bold answers about fears and barriers. The dialogue hints at discouragement by managers and unkind treatment as the main obstacles to pursuing a performing career.
Hartford Electric Car Service Schedule Opens October 8 1909
Travelers Guide N Y N H Hartford railroad announces weekday electric car service in effect starting October 8 1909 with details on routes and timings for commuters.
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N. H. & Hartford Railroad
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