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Newspaper

Bristol Phoenix

Location

Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America

Date

Dec 11, 1925

Page

3

Sunnyside Bakery and Florine Beauty Parlor Ad Notices

An old Classified Box item lists Sunnyside Bakery with Lopes & Raposo as proprietors offering fresh hourly loaves and special pastry orders, and Florine Beauty Parlor at 97 Bradford Street highlighting services from shampooing to manicuring with Dowling Studio credentials.

Sunnyside Bakery Lopes & Raposo Props Vienna Florine Beauty Parlor Bradford Ssr Dowling Studio Providence R. I Marcel

Local business directory fragment with ads and listings

A fragmented historic ad page lists Blue Bird Shop Hats gowns gloves and linens at 371 Hope Street plus fashion and perfume items. Other entries name Wardwell Lumber Co contractors Witherell Edward E and Buffington's Pharmacy with multiple Hope Street locations and Shulman Philip dry goods and ladies apparel offerings.

Blue Bird Shop Hope Steel

Expressing Bristol and Providence Ad

DuPont's Express offers daily service between Providence and Bristol from 8 Bourn Ave and 74 Constitution Street address at Providence. Joseph DuPont Prop. calls for customers to use their express line by telephone 445-.

Dupont’s Express Joseph DuPont Bourn Ave Constitution St Providence Bristol

Fish Market Listings and Fresh Daily Deliveries

Classified note lists Fish Market entries for Castriotto John at 149 Bradford Street and Fernandes M at 264 Thames Street offering instant delivery and fresh stock daily with cleanliness as motto. MP Fish Market at 493 Wood Street sells fish clams oysters and scallops in season with deliveries to all Bristol areas.

Castriotto John Bradford Steel Fernandes Thames Wood St Bristol

Local Bristol shops advertise groceries and services

A crowded list of Bristol area businesses offers groceries meats and provisions at low prices. Stores include Lannons Wood and Catherine, Quinal Frank Thames, Union Commercial Co, and Vieira Church Street with varied goods from fresh produce to imported Italian items.

Lannon Peter J Corner of Wood and Catherine Sts Medeiros & Bernard Franklin St Quintal Frank Thames St Union Commercial CO Wood St Tel Bristol Pansa Brothers

Moving and Trucking and Local Services Ads

A collage of local business notices includes Moving and Trucking by BISIGNANOG & FAVUZZA at 144 Bradford St and Daily delivery dairy by DEWOLF FARMS, plus various shops: FAIRLAWN DAIRY FARM, CHIC SHOPPE MILLINERY PARLORS, NEWSDEALERS COGGESHALL, HENRY M. DARLING, painting firms HICKEY and SOUSA, INC, photography by SANTULLI, LAWRENCE, plumbing by WALDRON and GEORGE W. McGANN, RADIO SETS by BRISTOL RADIO SHOP, REAL ESTATE EDMONDS, A A CO, Bristol LUNCH, KEELER sewing, and diverse services from painting to plumbing and radio sales.

Smith William F Mokemult Ave Dewolf Farms Muet Alves Fairlawn Dairy Farm John Metacom Ave. Co Ox Deen Hope Street

Surely That Was Big Point in Car's Favor

A motor car salesman touts a speed car as the best choice for a customer. The buyer complains about crawling under it, and the salesman boasts a fault proof design. The car then demonstrates a mechanism that automatically turns upside down when something goes wrong.

Car

No Fixed Price for Gospel in the East

The report describes varied barter for gospel books across regions. In India two pice equal to one cent buys a gospel, in China it costs one twelfth of a cent while production is triple, in Korea colporteurs accept corn eggs straw shoes and potatoes, and in Brazil a drinking horn is offered for a New Testament. A Ceylon missionary recounts beans traded for a gospel when money is unavailable.

India China Korea Brazil Ceylon

Meerschaum Pipes and Their Global Craft Traditions

Meerschaum, a white creamy mineral also called petrified sea foam, is mined widely with best quality from Asia Minor. Rich deposits at Sepetdje near Eskischehir yield soft material that hardens when dried. Most pipes were sent to Vienna before the war for making artistic tobacco pipes, with similar work done in London and Paris.

Meerschaumg Asia Minor Sepetdje Eskichehir Vienna Londgyn Paris

Modern Shoe Repairing Shop and Campagna Shoe Repair

Two Bristol area shoe repair shops advertise long standing service. Carmelo Campagna offers 22 years in Bristol and 5 years at 124 Franklin Street with guaranteed work and low prices. Antonio Mazza runs the Modern Shoe Repairing Shop at 335 High Street offering hand and machine work, guaranteed quality, and the lowest prices.

Campagna Carmelo Franklin Bristol St. Antonio Mazza

Local Service Ads For Shoes Tailors and Taxi Access

Classified snippet lists SHOE SHINE PARLORS with SICIGNANO Michael 489 Hope St as Spencer Shoes agents. Tailor Garments RUCCI Anthony 98 State St offers custom tailoring cleaning pressing and repair. JOHN THE TAILOR 301 Hope St provides distinctive custom tailoring cleaning and pressing. LIBERTY TAILOR FP Ferraiuolo 338 High St advertises fashionable tailoring. Franklin Street Taxi Service operated by Frederick Middleton with office on Franklin Street garage and seven passenger car. TRUDELL John C trucking hay wood coal land for building purposes at 14 Second Steel 240-W.

Sicignano Michael Hope St Spencer Shoes John the Tailor BR Troiano Franklin Street Taxi Service Frederick Middleton Franklin Street Garage Trudell John C

Upcoming Community Events In Brisk Holiday Season

The notice lists multiple, varied events across December to February including a yearly bazaar at G A R Hall hosted by Depacnaughs Hook Ladder Hose Co No 1. A Pastime Theatre program by St Elizabeths parish, a Berean Club sale at First Baptist vestry, a Girls Friendly Society sale at St Michaels Church Holmes House and a Christmas Night dance by Kearney Post American Legion. Bristol Troops Boy Scouts annual bazaar continues at G A R Hall on several Saturdays.

G. A. R. Hall Depacnaughs Hook, Ladder & Hose Co St. Elizabeth's Parish First Baptist Church Berean Club Holmes House Girls’ Friendly Society St Michael's Church Naval Armory Kearney Post American Legion Bristol Troops Boy Scouts of Amerna

Knowledge Is Power Learning Inspires Temperate Wealth View

A short aphorism from an exchange notes that knowledge guards youth from excess and steadies old age, praising temperance as a trait that balances wealth and poverty and adds virtue to riches.

Seals Likely Land Origin Yet Marine Adapted

Seals may have started on land but evolved to live in water. They still return to land or ice floes only to breed and raise their young.

Hidden Welsh Smith Fused Swords in Minutes

In a Welsh village a 19th century blacksmith could weld broken swords within half an hour leaving no trace of a join. His skill vanished with him. The piece contrasts ancient color mixes with Pompeii murals and election notices still readable in vivid hues.

Fiji Islanders Seek Rotary Club amid Global Change

In reminiscence of past travels, the narrator recalls a Fiji island scene and notes a shift as Fiji Islanders now seek a Rotary club. The piece reflects on Rotary’s motto and the evolving world view from a Wisconsin newspaper.

Fiji Rotary Muiwaukee Journal

Ducks Delay Train on Royal Sandringham Grounds

Springtime shelducks migrate from Holland to Sandringham to lay eggs in rabbit burrows on the royal domain. After hatching the young, a slow trek across marshes to The Wash causes trains between Dersingham and Wolferton to be held up as drivers show respect to the visiting birds.

North Sea Holland Royal Domain Sandringham Royal Estate Dersingham Wolferton

Upholsterers Gomer Frank Advertise 172 Thames

Upholsterers Gomer and Frank advertise furniture repair antique items and bric a brac buying and selling at 172 Thames street urging readers to refresh old furniture now.

Gomer Frank Thames

How Ancient Dates Are Read From Manuscripts

The oldest manuscripts often lack punctuation and capitalization, with words joined and abbreviations kept simple. Papyrus texts from Egyptian tombs are the most ancient preserved writings, followed by early Latin manuscripts found at Beruculanerm.

Berculanerm

State Board of Public Roads Takes Land in Barrington

The Rhode Island State Board of Public Roads votes to take land in Barrington Town along County Road for highway purposes. Plat No 126 describes a 0.122 acre parcel described as between the northerly and easterly sides of County Road with specific survey points from Sta 1700 and Sta 2080. The action is recorded by the Town Clerk on November 18 in accordance with the act promoting road construction and maintenance.

Barrington Ann E. Medbury Rhode Island State Board of Futite Roads General Assembly State Board of Public Roads Barrington County R. J. State Board OF Public Roads Abram L. Atwood Benjamin F. Robinson Frank Cole G. R. Wellington Barringet A. D

Porcupine Not Particular About Food

Kephart notes a porcupine with a voracious appetite and salt craving. The creature gnaws items with saline flavor including ax handles gun stocks canoe paddles leather shoes gloves and even a bat sweat band during camp raids.

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