State Street M. E. Church Notes
The fall campaign begins September 1 with a Young People District Meeting in Portsmouth. Miss Luther and others organize Epworth League events. The pastor will speak on The Study of the Bible by the League and report Bristol League work. Sunday services include morning worship with communion at 10 30 and an evening temperance program.
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Young People’s
Portsmouth
Epworth League
Luther
League
Bristol
It Is Too Bad That There Isn’t Some Way For Always
A short note from the Atchison Globe laments the lack of a method to always have a girl baby, reflecting a casual newsroom sentiment on family planning.
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Atchison Globe
Mi O na promised money back for dyspepsia cure
An advertisement touts Mi-o-na as a universal stomach remedy sold by A J Jasmin offering a two week 50 cent box with a full refund if not satisfied. It claims rapid relief from pain after eating dizziness specks and indigestion and promotes increased vitality and internal healing.
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A. J. Jasmin
Epworth League Convention at Portsmouth Church
A sub district Epworth League convention will meet at Portsmouth M E Church on Thursday afternoon and evening September 1. All league members are delegates. The afternoon theme is The League focusing on Bible church missions and reading. Evening theme covers league evangelistic work and outreach to unsaved, with a prayer group. supper will be served by Fortamouth church.
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Epworth League
Portsmouth
M. E
the League
League
Fortamouth
Robin Attacks Rat After Nestling Losses
In Port Harrow Skeverne a robin bolted from a hedge toward a rat raiding a nest. The rat seized a young bird, a passerby knocked it senseless, and the robin pecked the defeated intruder. Four nestlings were present. one died, the other three survived.
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Porthallow
Skeverne
St James
Sharpened edge warning and a diarhoea remedy notice
A barber warns against testing a razor’s edge with a finger and promotes cautious handling. The piece also includes an advertisement claiming Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured violent diarrhoea for John J. Patton of Patton Alabama after three doses, priced twenty-five cents, sold by W H Bugington.
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Chamberlain
John J. Patton
Patton
Ala
W.h.bugington
John Banister English Violinist Leader of Charles II Band
English violinist John Banister rose to fame in the 17th century leading Charles II's twenty four violins. Pepys notes court gossip about a French chief musician. Banister's London concerts advertised at his Musick School near the George tavern and later at the Academy in Lincoln's Inn Fields continued regularly until shortly before his death in 1679.
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John Banister
Baltzar
Charles II
Pepys
Banister
London Gazette
Musick School
George Tavern
White Fryers
Academy
Lincoln's Inn Fields
Chambers’ Journal
The Kitchen Dresser In History And Verse
A note on the kitchen dresser as a bench for dressing meat, with references from Dr Johnson Shakespeare Dryden and Wright. It surveys the dresser as an object of ostentation in rich homes and links to the French term dresseir and to verse describing pewter plates reflecting sunlight like shields.
Newport and Providence Railway Time Table
Week days and Sundays schedule shows Newport to Providence trains at 6.45 through 9.45 a m and later. Bristol to Newport departures from 7.00 to 10.15 p m with numerous arrivals to Newport throughout the day. Boats connect with all cars, with a ten minute waiting if late.
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Newport & Providence Railway Company
Newport
Providence
Bristol
Suburban Railway Electric Car Service Schedule
Regular service between Providence and Bristol on weekdays starts at 5 45 a m from Dorrance Weybosset with 80 minute intervals to 7 15 p m and hourly to 11 15 p m. Bristol terminus departures begin 5 19 a m with 30 minute intervals to 8 48 p m then hourly to 10 49 p m plus 11 49 and 12 41 a m to Riverside. Sundays show 7 45 p m start with 30 minute then hourly to 10 15 p m from Dorrance Weybosset and Bristol times begin 6 49 a m with 30 minute to 6 49 p m then hourly to 9 49 p m plus 10 49 and 11 41 p m to Riverside. Cars leave Franklin streets six minutes after terminus departures.
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Providence
Bristol
Dorrance
Weybosset
Riverside
Franklin Streets
New York New Haven Hartford Electric Car Schedules
The N Y N H Hartford Railroad issues May 29 1904 timetable for Bristol to Providence Fox Point service. Weekday northbound trains depart Bristol Constitution Street at multiple times including express options. southbound from Fox Point Providence to Bristol with a dense hourly to multi hour pattern. Sunday services list north and southbound departures and Providence arrivals with varied times.
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Bristol
Constitution Street
Providence
Fox Point
Tsing
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Marie Jaureau
George J. Zolnay
The
American Melody Company
New York
Cress
State Street
A. J Jasmin
Epworth
Khobin
E Coe
Weingarten &Ros
Broadway
Coggeshall Street
Co. H. Straight
Hope and
Bradford Streets
A. W. Orgelman
Wright's Church
Paomur
F. Beauregard
Bradford Street
R. I
Isaac B, Munro
Charles
Franklin ST
An Ristol A
N.Y
N.H. & Hartford Railroad Electric Car Service
Phoenix
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