President Wilson to outline work of new Congress session
The 65th Congress opened with routine business. A joint session will hear President Wilson’s message outlining the year’s work and a possible draft act for friendly aliens. Many expect a wartime declaration against Austria Bulgaria and Turkey, though not likely this time. Total appropriations requested reach thirteen and a half billion dollars, far above the prior record of two billion.
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Senate
House
Wilson
Austria
Bulgaria
Turkey
Germany
Draft Regs Restore Registrants Status Under New Rules
Under new regulations every registrant is restored to original status with exemptions revoked for prior dates. The Provost Marshal General insists all registrants know their order number and that those who registered on June 5 bear knowledge of the selective service law. Failure to comply is a misdemeanor with up to one year in prison and possible loss of rights and immediate induction into military service.
President approves coal price rise and demand surge
The President allows a 35 cent per ton increase for hard coal at mines, likely raising consumer prices by 50 cents per ton. The Fuel Administration cites a war driven jump in coal use totaling about 100 million tons, with Bethlehem Steel seeking 3 million extra tons annually and public utility plants in industry boosting demand by one third.
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Fuel Administration
Bethlehem Steel Company
House Nomination Question Stirs 1920s Talks
An exchange asks if Colonel House would consider a 1920s presidential nomination, but the sentiment across the country seems against a three term option. The Philadelphia Inquirer notes overall improbability of House seeking the presidency.
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House
Philadelphia Inquirer
Appeal for Sweaters for Rhode Island Action
Mrs LeBaron B. Colt of the US Navy League comforts committee has an urgent appeal from Capt L Latimer commander of the battleship Rhode Island for 300 sweaters. Cold weather worsens conditions aboard the ship, prompting women statewide to assist at once. Contact the committee at Gladding's store Providence for help.
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LeBaron B. Colt
Comforts Committee
US Navy League
Local notices feature gifts sales and civic updates
Community items include a jewelry ad from E D Kunz and several local updates. Headlines reference holiday gifts and sales at Phoenix Office, mariners’ and military mentions, a marriage registration, a church event, a New London naval assignment, and the lease of the Hopeworth property near Mount Hope Bay.
Twelve deaths and local notices in Bristol month of November
A Bristol page item list reports twelve deaths in November and numerous local updates. It notes residents traveling to New York for visits and medical care, school recesses for Thanksgiving, community events at churches and clubs, naval personnel visits, charity pledges, and ongoing civic activities including the Pythian Sisters meeting and Americanization efforts at a Woman Suffrage bazaar.
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Promises Cure From Bloodstream Reach
Frank J. Cheney of F. J. Cheney & Co. swears as senior partner that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Medicine. Notarized December 6 1886 in Toledo Ohio. The notice invites testimonials and lists product sales through druggists and Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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State of Ohio
Toledo
Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
A. D
Hall
F Cheney & CO
Ohio
Toe Hall
Sagamore Chief Engineer Recovers and Resumes Duty
Charles Clark chief engineer of the Steamer Sagamore has recovered from a weeks long illness and resumed duties yesterday. Moses Moore at Cranston Worsted Mills suffered a severe left hand burn when an electric fuse blew while he adjusted it. He was attended by Dr. O R Siegel. National and State officers of the Rhode Island degree team are expected to attend Hope Circle No 7 Daughters of Isabella grand initiation at G A R Hall on Thursday evening with a class of 32 to enter. Dr A M Merriman received word his mother, widow of Capt Walter Merriman, died Sunday night in Brunswick Maine age 84. Besides her son in town, she leaves another son S Lorenzo Merriman principal of the State Normal School in Presque Isle Maine. Dr Merriman left this afternoon for the funeral.
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S P. Colt
New York
Colony Club
State Street
M. E
Joseph Bruno
Thnt City
Anna May Haggerty
Margaret A. Leahy
New York City
William J. Golden and
Chicopee Falls
Mass
Breen
Lincoln Avenue
Baptist Young People’s Union
Beatrice Alger
Joseph E. Brown
Thomas E. Clark
Providence
Lloyd C. Crapo
U S. Naval Reserve Training
Pelham Bay Park
N. Y
Phineas E. Crapo
Red Triangle
Bristol County Equal Suffrage League
Astoria
Millgut Bridge
Warren
Rumstick Point
Colt Farm
Hezekiah Ingraham
George Ingraham
United States Navy
Newport
Columbia University
Pacific Coast
Mcfe
James J. Walsh
Boston
Vernon A Gray
Bristol
Atlantic
France
Gray
Fort Strong
Edward Mead
Bristol Civic Forum
John R Edwards
Meé&d
Elzabeth L Douglas
Franklin Street
Douglas
W. F. Howe
Charles Clark
Sagamore
Moses Moore
Cranston Worsted
O. R. Siegel
Rhode Island
Hope Circle
Daughters of
Isabella
G A. R Hall
A. M. Merriman
Walter Merriman
Brunswick
Maine
State Normal School
Presque Isle
Automobile registrations at state board office last week
Local auto registrations show 34866 Morris Marks of Warren listed for a Ford 22 hp touring model in the State Board of Public Board records.
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Ofice of State Board of Public Board
Morris Marks
Warren
Ford
Phoenix Office
Local Red Triangle Fund Reaches 5732 27 In Donations
The Local Red Triangle Fund totals 5732.27 with several contributions since the drive closed. The note urges continued gifts despite the campaign ending due to wartime needs, listing contributors and amounts including Dr. W. Fred Williams and the executive committee.
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Red Triangle
Vaaallits
Bristol
W. Fred Williams
F. M Dimond
T H. DeCoudres
A. W. Barrett
Boys’ Department
U . S. Lady Mary
Probate Court session approves Manchester estate and adoptions
The regular Probate Court session before Judge Edward L. Leahy accepted the inventory of John Howard Manchester for allowance. Petitions by Alfonso Cerillo and wife to adopt and to change name were allowed for Willard M. Manuta and Antonia Maria Martin. Other docket items were continued to February 4.
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Edward L. Leahy
John Howard Manchester
Willard M. Manuta
Alfonso Cerillo
Antonia Maria Martin
Ninth Annual Bristol County Poultry Exhibition Opens
The Bristol County Poultry Association starts its ninth annual show at G. A. R. Hall on December 11 with exhibitions continuing two days. Judges include W H Allen R I C Ballou and F G Cook. George L Cornell to supervise. Officers led by President Dr Howard W Church and Vice President Richard R Cornell. A strong entry list is anticipated.
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Bristol County Poultry Association
G. A. R. Hall
W. H. Allen
Greenville
James Clarkson
Church
Cornell
Clarkson
John G. Stewart
William H. R. Manchester
Walter’t.remieres
Nathaniel W. Sparks
Amos E. Wilcox
William B. Pearse
John Usher, Jr
Richard Stuart
Carl C. Witherell
George L. Cornell
Gardner West
Douglas Fairbanks at Pastime Theatre in Down to Earth
Douglas Fairbanks appears Thursday at the Pastime Theatre in the seven reel photoplay Down to Earth praised by the New York Tribune for its humor. Emily Stevens is featured Saturday in Outwitted.
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Douglas Fairbanks
Pastime
The
New York Tribune
Fairbanks
Emily Stevens
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bristol Phenix
Britol
Farrally
Ofice
Hope Street
Phenix News
Wilard F Briggs
High Street
MLC. A
Hasbrouck Pone
Treet
Ri Place
Fee Hope Street
Phenix
O. LeClair
G. Espinosa
Editorial
U.S.S
Adams Express
NWARD
Phoenix
Frank H Mowry
Marlow
New Hampshire
E. D. Kunz
Joseph A Maytum
William M. Chapin
St. Andrew’s Industrial School
Barrington
A. J King & CO
Charles Francis Tacy
United States Gas and Flame Unit
Fort Slocum
Kunz
United States
LeBaron B Colt
Asa W. Hathaway
Mabel Townsend Oldham
Central Falls
Hathaway
Bryant & Stratton
Rhode Island Commercial School
St George's Church
Mount Hope Bay
Haffenreffer
Sun
Dodge & Camfield Co
Exchange Place
Butler Exchange
Providence, &. I
A. W Gleason
Notary Public
H. P
Oakdale
Louis F. Cohen
Watcr
Hope and
Church Streets
OLD Kentucky Jubilee Quartet
Noted
Southern Jubilee Singers
J. F. Gilroy
Aetna Protection
B. W. Wall
B. L
Gorham’s Express
Diesser
RED Triangle Fund
Imentifntr
Bradford ST
M. CA
Ajax Plain
Peter Sansone
Upper Fenee
Woodlawn Avenue
Box PD
Bradford Farm
B. French
Probate
Franklin
Thames Streets
A. Deslauriers
L. Levy’ . Yy
Champion Shoe Repair
Benefit War Fund
Naval Reserves Band
T. Clarke Brown
Pastime Theatre
Bristol Mothers’ Club
Civic Forum
George S. Fox
West 25Th Street
Pure Food Store
Chase & Sanborn
South America
Butter & Egg Department
Fancy Creamery
Fancy Elgin
New York State
California
Charles A. Johnson
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