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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 27, 1907
Page
2
A 1907 editorial urges residents to use kind words to lift spirits and make homes feel like paradise. It condemns gloomy forecasts about crops, warns against late curfews for boys, and stresses parental guidance and positive company for youths to secure a better future.
Aug 27 prompts a Tableauaux in St Michael's Church chapel to aid the Ivy Guild. On Sept 14 a Saturday evening dance at Portuguese Hall Wilson's Lane funds the Portuguese Church.
Advertised letters include John Ferri John J Vasconcellos John Pephlon George Briggs Walter E Strand Miss Mary Tobin Miss Maggie Mille Miss Annie Russell Mrs John Bourne Foreigan Nicolo Monticale Erminia Romano Lorenzo Santulli.
Local Bristol post office hours and mail arrival and departure times listed for regular and Sunday services. Express courier departures and arrivals by Earle & Prew noted with outward and inward schedules.
Albert A. Young vacationing in the Catskills. Lida Pearse returns from two weeks off. Milk dealers agree to raise price after Sept 1. Capt Isaiah Crowley and others return for season. Local social events include visits from Fall River and Taunton guests. outings planned and postponed for weather. A fire destroys a two story building near Nayatt Point road. post office and bakery affected. Public notices touch payrolls, church outings, and school opening.
Last evening the summer colony at Little's Narrows held a closing season celebration. About 20 illuminated boats paraded in the bay followed by fireworks on shore and on boats. The event ended with a fine collation at Bower's Grove, with cornet solos by Miss Cook.
A Bristol meeting of Brown University alumni elected John P Reynolds as chairman and L L Anderstrom as secretary to form a temporary Bristol Brown Alumni Association. A banquet committee, including Reynolds Williams and Cheesman, was chosen to plan a future event as the group plans to enroll graduates and long-term members residing in Bristol. An advertisement for kidney tonics by O W Sparks followed.
We the undersigned milk dealers of the Town of Bristol R 1 hereby give notice that on and after September 1 1907 and until further notice the price of milk will be 7 cents per quart at retail and 6 cents per quart at wholesale. James M Gooding H DeW Allen Frank Kinnicutt Stephen Church C H Church J J McCaugher Richard Corcoran Peter Reily A G Fates John Usher Jr J H Bailey Jr James Tobin Geo 8 Peckpam Ezra Sason William Gilroy Frank Gosher Thomas Leahy Manuel Regzo W T C Wardwell Daniel O Shea Manuel Silva F M Barney Marian Perry Antone Ferry Wim McCaughey Frank Cathe Wm F Smith W Coggeshall Wm H West Peter E Gilroy Joseph E Simmons C O Coggeshall Spencer Rounds J Trudell
Fall term opens Monday September 9 at 9 am with examinations for admission on Friday September 6 starting at 9 am High School graduates may enter regular course of two and a half years without examination or two year course with examination Trustees notice states preparatory admissions change Walter E Ranger secretary and Charles S Chapin principal are the contact points in Providence Box numbers given
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