Taft’s 1917 message urges reforms and budget restraint
The president’s Congress message is praised as broad and ambitious, urging public expense economy and various reforms. It calls for a postal savings bank, ship subsidy, political contribution disclosure, civil pensions, higher postage, a $50,000 fund to fight white slave trade, legal procedure reform, Chesapeake Bay defenses, new battleships, Pearl Harbor base, a national health bureau, New Mexico and Arizona statehood, Alaska governance, and a reset of the Light-House Board. It also notes plans for a 1918 50th anniversary negro emancipation celebration and a consolidation of manufacturing statistics.
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Taft
Congress
Zelaya
Nicaragua
Chesapeake Bay
Pearl Island
Hawaii
National Bureau of Health
New Mexico
Arizona
Alaska
National Astronomical Observatory
Naval
Bureaus of Manufactures and Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
Executive Department
Bristol Post Office Mails Arrive and Close Times
The Bristol post office lists mail arrival times at 7.00 10.00 8. m 2.00 4.00 6.00 7.15 p m and closing times at 7.40 9.00 11.30 a m 2.00 6.00 7.15 p m Sunday mails arrive 8.00 a m and close 4.50 p m Office hours Sunday 9 80 to 10 30 a m Sunday mail distributed from carriers racks at south door 9 80 to 10 80 a m.
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South Door
Express train times to Bristol by Earle and Prew
The notice lists outward and onward train departures and arrivals to Bristol by Earle and Prew express. Outward times are 7.50, 11.20 a m, 3.20, 5.20 p m. Onward times 8.00 and 12.00 a m, 3.00 and 7.30 p m.
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Bristol
Earle & Prew
Lyndon L. Anderstrom
Richard H. Dunbar
Bristol Town Notes and Community Updates
The Bristol items cover a string of local notices and events: School Committee meetings, business openings, residents moving, tax listings, and civic group activities. Highlights include courtship of elections for Bristol Aerie officers, a Bristol Fortnightly Club gathering, and the Bristol Base Ball Association planning.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Deafness Cure
An 19th century advertisement asserts deafness results from inflamed Eustachian tube mucous and cannot be cured by local applications. It claims constitutional remedies are needed and offers $100 for any catarrh deafness case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Product promoted is Hall's Family Pills for constipation, price 75 cents.
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Hall
Fries
United Brothers Lodge Elects Officers in Odd Fellows Hall
The United Brothers Lodge No 13 held its annual election at Odd Fellows Hall on Tuesday evening naming Noble Grand Walter H Coggéshall Vice Grand TM Pater Gasper Recording Secretary William P Paine Financial Secretary Amana O Willistoir Treasurer Frederic A Tallman Trustees George A Arnold W Fred Fish and William J Munro Hall Committee John Mathewson James FB Winley and Ernest Alder Representatives to Odd Fellows Home Association James T Robertson Joseph L Butrum The initiatory and second degrees were conferred during the meeting A fraternal visit to Swartz Lodge Providence followed on Wednesday evening to witness a Bristol candidate receive the first degree.
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United‘ Brothers’ Lodge
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Everning
Noble
Walter H. Coggéshall
Pater Gasper
William P. Paine
Amana O. Willistoir
George A. Arnold
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Bristol, AL
Farrally
Phoenix News
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High St
Wasbrouck
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Fts Ie Gala
Jones & Co
Remieres
Editorial
Eben
Will
Dodge ‘& Camfield
Exchange Place
Hag
Thos.f.peirce & Son
Dorrance and
Westminster Corner
Providence
Sristol
Sunday Mails
Alfredo di Lauro
State Street
Peterson's
Judge O L. Bosworth
Minnie R. Peckham
Bristol Aerie
Order of Eagles
Aerie
Mt. Hope Block
Debolien Brothers
Bristol Opera House
Harriet F. Taylor
Herbert F. Eddy
Convent Street
O. F. Stevens
Worcester
Clarence H. Seymour of
Warren
John D. Dimond
May Slade
New York
F. M. Dimond
Herbert A. Seymour
Barrington
Kelley’s Bridge
Maxfield’s Corner
Echo Lake
Phoenix
Bristol Base Ball Association
Hasbrouck Block
J. Harvey Merrill
Walter Stokes Irons
The
the Phoenix
Peterson
John M. Coggeshall
Oe York
SAMAN
Es B. U
Philathea Classea
First Baptist Church
Smith
O.J Hasbrouck
Colt Memorial High School
Coral Hill
John H. Bailey, Jr
Ward
Pythian Sisters
Edgehill Temple
St. Mary’s Church
J. F. Downing
Debolien
Bristol Merchants’ Association
Rhode Island
Burton Street
High Street
Fred M. Dixon
Red Cross
J. H. Merrill
Helen Warren
Mollie Peckham
Germany
Teachers’ Retirement Fund
Superintendent of Schools
Byfield
Mary A. Pitman
K. of P
William H. Gardiner
Herman Gablingki
Elwin A. Hill
George S. Marshall
James A. Clarkson
Alex Alexander
D. Marshall
First Regiment
Warren Town
Thomas J. Gillan
Louise Lavender
Temarke
Margie Léahy
Bessie Tobin
H. Euphrasia Connery
Henrietta Connery
Theresa Doran
Alice McDonald
Mary Morrissey
Katherine Connery
Louise Franklin
Louise Doyle
United Brothers Lodge
John Kendrick
Philathéa Cliss
Pete
Alfredo DeLauro
Cleveland Baking Powder CO
Scott
R.I. State College
N. Howard Brewer
Hockanam
Conn
Babcock
R. I. State College
Kingston
R. I
State Stret
M. E. Church
Epworth League
Thurday
Jacob Molasky
Bristol Hotel
Star. Theatre
North Dakota
Arthur Miller
Russell-Miller Milling CO
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