Local Clearing Sale and Community notices
Clearing, sale in all departments now going on at Suzmans. Six new looms arrive for Namquit Worsted Mill. Ladies of First Baptist Church host Master Day event. James K. McShane, from Boston, visits family on Wood Street. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lemaire travel to Lewiston and Boston with Albert Robberta. Naval Reserves return from cruise aboard U.S. Cruiser Columbia near Chesapeake Bay. Frank T. Kinnicutt and wife celebrate twenty third anniversary with relatives, picnic and music. gifts and bouquets received from Providence area guests.
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Ladies of the First Baptist Church
Ssop Ula
Edward Lemaire
Lewiston
Albert Robberta
Providence
Boston
R. L Naval Battalion
U.S
Columbia
Chesapeake Bay
Frank
T. Kinnicutt
Ieik
Congregational Church Notes for Upcoming Communion
Congregational Church holds a preparatory service in Memorial Chapel this Friday at 7 30 led by the pastor. Communion will be observed Sunday at 10 30 after the preaching service, with another evening service at 7 80 in Memorial Chapel where the pastor will preach.
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Memorial Chapel
Who Will Be Responsibe in Bristol Sidewalk Case
Readers are asked to weigh who should bear liability after a midnight arrival causes injuries on a Bristol sidewalk protruding four feet from steps owned by the town. The piece notes decades of sidewalk coverage and reflects on legal standards and jury verdicts amid questions of responsibility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pothe
Thea Pie
Providence
Bristol
Stepa
Logaka
The Boring of Glass by Local Heating Method
The article describes a glass cutting technique using rotating brass tubes filled with water and a clay disk to form a hole. Molten lead is poured into the hole to create a circular crack matching the hole outline, enabling boration of glass tubes and cylinders in factories.
Bringing It Home. Her Father What are you and young Shortleigh going to live on
A brief exchange between a father and his daughter about marriage raises questions of finances and independence. The daughter retorts by urging him to look in the mirror, while the father curses God for human imperfection.
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Shortleigh
Newspapers in Japan in 1902 Reach Wide Readership
Mary Crawford Fraser notes in the World's Work that in 1902 Japan had 1,828 newspapers with the largest paper circulating about a quarter of a million. Reading is common among all ages, with groups sharing papers in streets. Voting rights exist for males over twenty five with ten yen tax, and public discussion is extensive, resembling England.
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Japan
Gan
Newespaper
England
Mary Crawford Fraser
Editor Borrowed a Gun in Kansas Town
A Kansas country newspaper editor who lent a rifle to return it sparked a peculiar spree among delinquent subscribers. Believing he was on the war path, they paid long overdue debts, with one man clearing ten years of dues. He returned to the office to find hay, corn, potatoes, wood, and turnips left as payment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas Country
Winchestera
New. York Tribune
D A R Field Day Celebrated by Bristol Chapter
On Wednesday August 29 Bristol D A R held its field day to mark the Rhode Island battle anniversary. Members and guests traveled by barge to Little's Narrows for a clam bake prepared by Charles F Bowler. The event featured addresses by Mrs Richard J Barker and Mrs Frederick T Dubois and concluded with a reception at Dubois cottage.
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Rhode Island
Bristol
Charles F. Bowler
Little’s Narrows
Memorial Building
Franklin Street
E. L Brownell
Richard J. Barker
The
Daughters of American Revolution
Frederick T. Dubois
Society of the Children of the American Revolution
Elizabeth H. Swinburne
R. S
Charles Warren Lippitt
Devoe Paint Ad Claims Superior Value and Savings
A letter to F A Easterbrooks extols Devoe paint, arguing most rival paints are weak or adulterated. It cites a Texas case comparing two nearly identical houses painted with different products, claiming Devoe avoids labor waste and offers full strength coverage. The firm touts Devoe at 1.75 per gallon and endorses Congdon & Carpenter Co. as sellers in Providence.
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Devoe
Judae I
100 Performers on Road Show Labeled Clean of Games of Chance
A road show featuring 100 performers is described as one of the cleanest acts on tour, with the act emphasized as free from any games of chance and aimed at broad audiences.
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Dr. J. J. Schenck & Son
Philadelphia
Suzman’s
Mascagni’s
Mandolin Club
Crompton & Knowles Company
Worcester
Mass
Congregational Church Notes
Kickers
Jon
Billy Winkle
Game Authority
Philadelphia Record
Burke
Mascagni
Bradord St
Bradford Street
Byron H. Colnell
Prest & Dixon Old Sugar House
F. A. Easterbrooks
Pure Food Commissioners
Genesee Pure Food Co
le Roy
N.Y
Rhode Island Normal School
Walter E. Ranger
Charles 8. Chapin
Easterbrooks Block
B. Paull
Beooner
W. H. Buffington Hope
Eugene le Clair, Sr
Constitution Strekets
C.evacecnecscces
Beistiol Deg
G. M. Wilbur
Hope Street
Aristo
Fall River
New York
Frank Jones
Kennebec
Pier Adjoinng
New
East River
N. Y
Thomiases
Doubting Thomas
John
Mathewson Street
John Shepard
Thames Street
EDDY
the Waldron-Brownell Co
Bradford St
G. W., Simmons, Undertakers
Telhphone
Constitution Street
Jumbo
William Street
S. Golden 12
State Street
Rodaks
Eastman’s Films and Dry Plates
Seed’s, Stanley
Standard
AZO
Aristo and
Albuma
W. N. & C. R. Burgess
Bristol, R
A.W. Orgelman
Stave Street
Tel
Town Dock
Seaconnet
P. W. Almy
Vaccaro Bros
Muzio Torsienea
Pawtucket Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Main Street
Pawtucket, R.1
DIREC
Philo E. Thayer
Je Milton Payne
Philip C, Sheldon
James L. Jenes
Edwin A. Perrin
Frederick W. Easton
George W. Newell
George M. Thornton
Benjamin F. Smith
William P. Dempsey
A. A. Mann
CHAS
P. Moses
H. A. Fletcher
P. Skinner, Jr
Asant
Dorchester Mutual Fire Ins. Co
E.l.watson & CO
States
Industrial Trust Co
W. L. Douglas
Ti Sho
Youglas
Brockton
W.L. Douglas
Wiz Douglas
Hargreave
Big
Warren
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