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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1919
Page
3
An item notes a playful exchange between Roy and a cousin about space on an arm chair, reflecting casual domestic humor. The piece appears alongside an English paper advertisement by a cobbler offering quick plain shoe work with careful toe-cropping and vamping, typical of period trade notices.
The traveling Navy Recruiting Party visits Bristol at the Post Office lobby offering two to four year enlistments. Ages 18 to 35 and minimum weight 128 pounds. Naval Reserve personnel discharged may receive four months pay as a bonus. Victory Buttons obtainable on discharge at the local station or by sending discharges to the First Naval District.
The Pastime Theatre hosts Maurice Tourneur's The Life Line from Paramount Artcraft with Jack Holt Pauline Stark and others. Monday features Harold Bell Wright's The Eyes of the World with a prologue and Boston California settings starring Edward Taine James Rutlidge and a cast noting Rutlidge's villainy and its costly consequences.
Evening mechanical drawing sessions start next Monday with instructor L Francis Herreshoff. Thirty two were eligible, but room limits allow only 15 students. Registrants include workers from Herreshoff shops, National India Rubber, Cranston Worsted Mills, Waldron Company, Standard Oil East Providence, and a local carpenter. Ages range 16 to 55.
Annual Mite Society gathering at the pastor Rev. O H Wallace home drew the largest attendance in society history. Rev Wallace presided over the election naming Mrs. A W Barrett as President and Mrs Ida Newman, Henry Bullock, Mrs Walter Lawton, Mrs Henry Buffum, and Mrs Thomas Manchester as officers.
Funeral services for Mrs Amelia Dreyer took place yesterday at 2 PM from her home on Church Street. Relatives from Providence and other parts of the state attended, with Rev J J Goodacre of the First Congregational Church presiding. Pallbearers included Edmund Horton of Barrington, and William Williston along with James H DeWolf and Henry F DeWolf, all grandsons. Burial was in North Cemetery.
An old American Indian remedy named Hazeloch Herb Remedy claims to ease a range of female health issues. Advertised by Mrs. Gonyea, allegedly sourced from an early Indian, and used by many women including Mrs. Oliver Garceau of Harrisville Rhode Island.
District Nurse report for November notes 32 total cases carried over 26 new 17 discharged 3 died and 12 remaining under care. Visits totaled 202 with 35 business advising and 8 metropolitan calls. Tuberculosis and obstetrical cases show 3 and 3 respectively with 7 pediatric visits.
Crown typewriter ribbons and carbon papers claim highest grade goods with non drying non fading inks. Sold by L G Cote 314 Hope St Bristol R 1 with telephone 1114-Y offering sharp clean results.
Annie Riley as administratrix for John Riley's Bristol estate files a final account including a credit from sale of real estate. The court orders notice for fourteen days starting next week and sets a hearing for January 5, 1920 at 10 30 A M in the Bristol Probate Court Room.
December 2 1919 in Bristol Massachusetts petition by Bertha F Irwin requests John E Redfern or other suitable guardian for Mary A Bullock of full age. hearing set January 1 1920 at 10 30 AM at Probate Court Bristol with fourteen day publication in Bristol Phoenix. J W Church probate clerk.
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