Big Losses by Fires Budgeted in Nation Wide Totals
Letter from H. J. Chase of Providence cites annual fire losses at 200 million dollars, argues current wood construction, insurance pressures, and lax building codes drive waste. Calls for stricter ordinances and exempting improvements to spur safer, substantial structures like Chicago Boston Baltimore lessons.
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the Phoenix
Italy
England
Samuel Hopkins Adams
Adams
Chicago
Boston
Baltimore
H. J. Chase
Iristol Post Office Mails Arrive and Close Times
The Iristol post office announces mail arrival and closing times including morning and evening slots. Sunday hours list arrival at 8.00 am and close at 4.50 pm with mail distributed from carriers racks at the south door from 9.80 to 10.80 am.
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Iristol Post Office
South Door
Express matter schedules for Adams Express Bristol
The hours for outward mail show departures at 7.50 and 11.20 a.m. and 3.29 and 5.20 p.m. For inbound mail the times are 8.00 and 12.00 a.m. and 2.00 and 6.30 a.m.
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Bristol
Adams Express
High tides data for Bristol and nearby locales
Tide readings for Bristol and nearby areas list high and mean ranges. Aug dates record A M and P M values for Bristol Newport and Providence with Newport tides leading by 14 minutes and Providence following by 1 minute. Mean tidal ranges are given as 3 ft 6 in for Newport 4 ft 1 in for Bristol and 4 ft 4 in for Providence.
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Bristol
A.M. P
Newport
Providence
New York visit notes and town notices
F M Dixon in New York pays taxes to George H Peck. Miss Marguerite Collins of Malden visits Miss Mary Morrissey on Church street. A new Edison moving picture machine at Star Theatre. Capt Robert N Turner improving after illness. Local repairs offered by O Leclair. Mrs Joseph Lewis and daughter plan six week trip to Philadelphia and Hazleton. Miss Margaret M Loughran of Providence on a week vacation with cousins on Usher street. Rev George H Perkins to preach at State Street M E Church in pastor's absence. Marriage intentions registered between Joseph King of Providence and Mary Francis Colbert of town. Nellie Scott visits Miss Winifred V Scott on Hope street. sisters visiting in town. Fred L Waldron of Ostby Barton Co Providence on vacation here with Mrs Waldron. Bucklin Corps East Providence visit Soldiers Home. about 20 attend. Jerry Forti arrested for alleged assault on Antoniette Melline, 18, by Chief J H Morrissey. Forti once lived here, later Boston and Waterbury shoemaker. Forti 21.
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F. M. Dixon
New York
Sofar
George H. Peck
Marguerite Collins
Malden
Mary Morrissey
Church Street
Edison Moving Picture
Star Theatre
Robert N. Turner
O. Leclair
Joseph Lewis
Philadelphia
Hazleton
Maragret M. Loughran
Providence
Lavey
Usher Street
George H. Perkins
State Street
M. E
John McVay
Joseph King
Mary Francis Colbert
Clark
Nellie Scott
Winifred V Scott
Hope Street
Thomas Regan
Mary Scott
Fred L. Waldron
Ostby-Barton Company
Mra. Waldron
Bucklin Corps
East Providence
Franklin Street
Jerry Forti
John H. Morrissey
Antoinette Melline
Wpworti
Boston
Waterbury
Forti
Orolock
Kerwin
Brooklyn
Haward Swett
Joh Laké
Little's
Narrows’ Ho
Everett Coggeshalls
Louis Molaghy
James
Franklin
George
Gabriel DeFelios
Wood ‘Street
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Col. L. H. Callan
Jefferson F. Galvin
Narragansett Hotel
George F. O’shaunessy
Europe
Trinity Church
Inlaw
Samuel P. Colt
Linden Place
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure for Constitutional Disease
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity for catarrh, a constitutional disease. It is taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces, with a $100 pledge if it fails to cure. Includes testimonials and price per bottle, plus a note to take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
Summer notes from Westport Harbor and Bristol towns
Mrs. John Carey and Mrs. John F. Petty spend the summer at Westport Harbor cottages. several residents travel, visit, or host relatives in Bath Boothbay Maine Wrentham Lake Pearl and Worcester. Attending events include a porch reception for Albert O Luther and a clambake plus various church and fraternal activities. News covers new cars, real estate transfers, a Catholic church move, and a Rhode Island outing aboard the Sagamore with Newport sailing itinerary.
Guinan Birth Announcement in Town Aug 11
In this town on August 11 a son was born to Mr and Mrs George Guinan.
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Guinan
George Guinan
James Mc Laughlin Dies At 79 At Soldiers Home
At the Soldiers Home in this town on August 11 James Mc Laughlin aged 79 years passed away. He was a longtime resident and is survived by relatives in the area. Funeral arrangements will be announced.
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James McLaughlin
Swansea Electric Garg
Fall River
Providence
Bristol
Unclear exchange hints at slang and graft in a settlement
The fragment shows two figures trading quips about honesty and a literary society. It mentions a rope cost of three cents a foot for those who refuse to leave when told, and a joking misstatement about arithmetic during an election. The language is rough and oblique, suggesting satire on local politics and social norms.
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