Freedmen Suffrage Debate and Ball Night Excitement
Contested views on freedmen voting spark Southern Northern friction over readiness. The piece emphasizes education for Black citizens and defends Republican record as incidental to slavery, not policy. A vivid tale of Kamoutsine at the governor general’s ball closes the excerpt with imperial intrigue and a three month exile.
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Waeneas
Henry Lippitt
Rhodesland
Providence Plantations
Holiday Gift Picks At Boston Store On Hope Street
Christmas preparations are under way with holiday goods on offer at the Boston Store on Hope Street. Ladies silk handkerchiefs embroidered sets mufflers and ties perfumery and more tempt shoppers, while Mr Allan’s display windows entice buyers to choose valuable presents at low prices for the season.
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Boston
Hope Street
Allan
Bristol Bank Note Case Ends in Amicable Settlement
A Bristol Commercial Bank suit over a note given by Hon Charles Collins ended after arguments on jury bias and bank stock ownership. The cashier’s misstep and a bankrupt drawer prompted the action, but the court ordered a jury and the case was peaced through an amicable settlement.
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Bristol Commercial Bank
Charles Collins
Newport
Bristol
Robbins
Bullock
John Wardwell
Howland
Hunter
Mr. Robbins
Judge Howland
Mr. Bullock
United States
America
Searle
Warren
Barrington
Holiday buying at Croaby Edwards and Temple Palmer stores
Advertised holiday bargains include Muscatel raisins at twelve cents a pound and nine cents for lesser varieties. French confectionery sells at twenty five cents per pound. Providence retailers tout large holiday stock at Tillinghast Mason News Co with vast selection of books toys and games at low prices for stocking stuffers.
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Croaby, Edwards & Co
Temple and Palmer
Boston
Westminster Street
Providence
Tillinghast & Mason News Co
Westminsster Street
A Tricky Lesson From a Small Schoolboy
Four men meet a small boy who proclaims his name as Harry B and explains he is good in Greenleaf's Speller but not in Arithmetic. The exchange leads to a reflection that if life were judged by such philosophy, the number of good would be scarce and bad would appear to multiply.
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Grant
United States
South
Giib
Bristol Phenix
Madame Henry Greville
Kamoutsine
Kamoutsins
Hass
Talors
Odessa
Ryght
Elizabeth
Moscow
Saint Petersburg
Kamoutzine
Siberia
Harapabsne
Camerot
Strauss
Kamout
Kamoutsina
Parbleu
Damerof
Kam Outsine
Camerof
Kamontyine
Gnée
Amces
Kamyatsine
Cameron
Bristol
Harry B
Greenleaf
New Jersey
Speer
James RB. Chilton & Co
Chilton
Laboratory
J. BR. Chilton & Co
New York
Alfred Speer
James BR. Curzon
Portland Transcript
J.H. Schenck & Son
Corner Sixth and
Arch Steels
Philadelphia
R. Fellows
M. D
Hill, N. H
Wistar
Fellows
M. PD
Hunt
Burnside sends Congressional Record to Young Men's Association
Washington dispatch notes General Burnside compliments to the Young Men's Christian Association and orders the Congressional Record be sent to the Association rooms during the current session. The item also mentions Providence clothing stores and a New York newspaper ad and subscription offer.
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Washineton, D. C
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Bristol Bcheme
State OF
Rhode Island
Winry Lippitt
Joshua M. Addeman
Polly Ticks
Randall
Partizan
Turkey
Tin
Dare Mother Goose
Humpty Dumpty
Santa Claus
A. W. Sibley
Advent Chapel
Children’s Home
A. O. Bourn
Empire State
Cicero
The
Bristol Phaenix
Mara Margaret W. Campbell
South Christian Church
Eiher Place
Trinity Church
Mission School
C. B. Longley
Persey
New York Observer
Observer
J. Prime &Co
Park Row
Srexr
Paris
London
Germany
WM. H.buffington
Bristol County Savings Bank
T. H. Shipman
Nomeopathic
H. J. Ditman’s
Ligh Street
State
Bradford Streets
Vtalla Uw
Tod P. M
G. P. Barnes
Ofice
G. W. Easterbrooke
Sargeo
A. Pike
Hope and
Ev Geu. T. French
Mount Hope Building
WM. H. Richards
M.D
Odd Fellows Building
Bradford Street
Morris
N. C. Bedell
Emma F. Sutton
East Providence
Sprague—Mitchell
Alvin Narrin Sprague
Mary Eliza Mitchell
New Shoreham
Perry—Hazard
Gardner Stevens Perry
Fannie Holt Hazard
James T. Hazard
Waldron
Meltiah P. Waldron
Reed
William H. Reed
Samuel
Julia A. Reed
Brown
Watchemaket
Ann P. Brown
Greene
Pawtucket
Benjamin B
Phenix “Marine Journal
Port “of
R. Borden
Mason
Fall River
B. Dartee
Gannon
Amos Falkenburg
W. H. Spooner
B. Durfee
I. Borden
B. Borden
Canonicus
Orswell
M. J. Varney
Roundout
G. P. Rowell & CO
News York
Gentlemen's
ST. O. M. Brown
Thames
W. Cushing
Ellen Leahy
Alice Smith
del¢ John &. Pearce
Mary Douglas
Franklin
Wilkes Barre
Yashk
Charles W.perry
G. H. Farrington
Santa
Claus
G. W. Easterbrooks
Fippe Street
Spockholders
South Christian Society
Pierce
Della Clerk
John B Munros
Pansy
Teddy
Jeneykin and the
Goblins
Alcott
Jan
Windmil
Mrs Ewing
Vine
Olive
Oliver Optic
Black Rifles
EF Kelloge
Bayard Paylovsky
Ruby
Go Farrington
Tibbitts & Randall
Munrko
National Eagle Bank
Watson
First National Bank
R. J
State Street
Ll O'Stuck
M. Bennett
Odd Fellows Beneficial
Reiodeh Island
Rothers
WM. W. Rathbun
Eagle Lodge No 2
Stephen Smith
Court of Probate
Fanny G. Bowen
I. Bowen
Benjamin Smith
William Williams
de Bonis
John H. Vickery
Samuel J. Vickery
N. Dartmouth
Mass
Peter Gladding
Balistol Phoenix
Petergladding
Bridget Peters
James Peters
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