Firemen Should Help Sacrifice Comfort for School Children
LeBaron C Colt urges Bristol citizens to ask the School Committee to move pupils from leased Hammill Block and Advent Church spaces to unused second floor fire houses the Dreadnaught and Hydraulion. He argues firemen would willingly share quarters to remove unsanitary conditions and protect children's lives, stressing fire officials must identify the danger and propose temporary quarters.
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Hammill Block
Advent Church
Bristol
Hammill
Lebaron C. Colt
Knotty Problems Before Nation in Congress Session
The National Congress opens its session with many knotty issues including national defence tariff reform rural credits conservation merchants marine seamen legislation currency reform anti trust and international concerns. Also on the docket are arms embargo Mexico the Philippines Porto Rico Haiti the Colombian and Nicaraguan treaties and a serious deficit in revenues. Continuing war taxes taxing munitions profits building armor plate factories prohibition suffrage and federal statute codification are listed as goals.
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National Congress
Mexico
Phillippines
Porto Rico
Haiti
Babbitt Post Names New Officers in G A R Election
The Babbitt Post No. 15 G A R held its annual officer election Friday evening with Carpenter Bullock as Commander and Joseph Gifford as Senior Vice Commander. Other posts filled include Slade as Junior Vice Commander Booth as Surgeon Card as Chaplain Congdon as Quartermaster Garvin as Officer of the Day Latham as Officer of the Guard Remieres as Delegate to the State Convention Bennett as Alternate and Congdon as Patriotic Instructor. One new member was admitted and installation will occur next month.
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Babbitt Post
Robert H Bullock
Joseph W. Gifford
Carrington P. Slade
Starr L. Booth
Henry F. Card
Giles S. Congdon
Charles W. Garvin
Charles F. Latham
Frank Remieres
Colts and Nationals Tie in Low-Scoring Saturday Game
The Colt Memorial High School team and the National Juniors battled to a six to six tie on a Saturday afternoon. Kempf scored for the Nationals after a long run in the first quarter, and Jimmie Garvin for the Colts capped drives in the final period. Earlier Bristol Boy Scout defeated a boys’ N7R Co. unit 6 to 0. The Narragansetts of Newport failed to appear to face the Nationals on Usher's field drawing a large crowd.
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Colt Memorial High School
Kempf
Nationals
Jimmie” Garvin
Colts
Bristol Boy Scout
N 7. R Co
Narragansetts
Newport
Usher's
Providence Chamber of Commerce Official Addresses Bristol Group
Clarence A. Cotton of Providence spoke to the Bristol Improvement Association at the Hotel Belvedere about town betterment and Bristol Ferry shipyard prospects. He highlighted cooperation, conventions, and Providence successes, and Bristol was urged to seek summer conferences and industry opportunities. The association authorized planning for an February annual banquet and set January reports.
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Si Hening
Bristol Improvement Association
Clarence A. Cotton
Providence Chamber of Commerce
Hotel Belvedere
Cotton
Benjamin F. Lindemuth
Bristol
Boards of Trade
Grand Rapids
Chicago
Providence
Bristol Ferry
Bristol Woman Celebrates 99th Birthday at Home for Aged Women
Mrs Cornélia Munro, Bristol's oldest resident, marked her 99th birthday at the Home for Aged Women on Franklin Street. Nearly fifty callers, including her grandson Charles F Slade of Providence and his family, joined four generations in offering congratulations and gifts.
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Cornélia Munro
Bristol
Franklin Street
Munro
Or Son
Charles F. Slade
Providence
Fall River
Battey
Warren
Star Theatre Weekly Attractions Preview
Star Theatre offers a varied lineup this week led by Emily Stevens in Destiny or the Soul of a Woman tonight. Ella HaM and Robert Leonard present Heritage in four acts, with Country Store on the bill. Wednesday features Mme Petrova in The Heart of a Painted Woman and The Diamond from the Sky in two acts plus The House of Cards. Phillips Smalley stars in A Cigarette, that's all! Animated Weekly. Thursday brings Herbert Rawlinson and Anna Little in Misjudged across three acts.
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Dillon
Star Theatre
Emily Stevens
Ella Ham
Robert Leonard
Metro
Mme Petrova
Herbert Rawlinson
Anna Little
Formation of a Women’s Auxiliary for Court Burnside
The Independent Order of Foresters held an open Moose Hall meeting in Bradford Street to start a women’s auxiliary for Court Burnside. About 30 women pledged to join. Speeches by Deputy Supreme Chief James J. McGrath Chief Ranger George Smith of Court What Cheer Providence and Amos Trudeau. Josephine Kerr sang several songs. The Crown Orchestra provided music and a collation was served.
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Order OF Foresters Court
Burnside
Order of Foresters
Moose Hall
Bradford Street
Court Burnside
Supreme
James J. McGrath
George Smith
Providence
Amos Trudeau
Josephine Kerr
Crown Orchestra
Parish Club Tie With National India Rubber Firm in Close Game
A Saturday night game in Trinity Parish Hall between the Parish Club and the National India Rubber Company finished 22 to 22. The Young Men's Parish Club plans to travel to Attleboro to meet the High School team there tomorrow evening.
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Trinity Parish Hall
National India Rubber Company
Attleboro
Dr King's New Life Pills Offer Liver and Stomach Relief
When the liver becomes torpid and the stomach acts queer, Dr King's New Life Pills purify the blood and relieve constipation biliousness dizziness and indigestion. They promise a clear complexion and renewed vitality, available at druggists.
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Dr King
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Hope and
Bradford Sts
Staples Coal Company
State Street
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Mme. Petrova
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Phillips Smalley
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Towne
Phennix
Babbitt
the Improvement Association
Aah
Hope Street
Hamiltons
Howards
Gorham
New York Fifth Ave
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Gillette
Auto-Strop
Gem, Jr
Edward D. Kunz
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Henry H. Posytan
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Pastime Theatre
the Universal
Mary Fuller
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