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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1910
Page
2
The date after the name on the Phoenix label shows the paid period. When renewed, the date changes. Subscribers are urged to note the date and renew promptly.
A fragmented notice lists names associated with depots and firms on Hope Street and Wood Street. Mentions Y M C A block and Hasbrouck Block with multiple individuals including Peterson Briggs Darling Smith Quirk and others, at a News location on Hope Street.
An assortment of retail notices and classified style prompts appears. The item references clothing waists slippers and sales with mentions of Barnaby Jones & Co State College Bristol Shoe Rep Osa Prov Public Market and a tax collector.
A 12 foot waterlogged oyster stake, likely the cause of a canoe accident that killed W. Det. Brown, was surfaced by Wendell R. Davis Police Officer Everett Church and William Finley. The stake broke Brown’s canoe, swamping it as he paddled against the wind. the harbor will be dragged to recover an 80 pound sand bag and determine the exact location of the incident.
Displayed in the Phoenix attics show window are hand-painted photograph calendars featuring New England scenes. Prices range from 25 to 60 cents, with a stack of hand-painted bridge whist score books at 85 cents. Calendar pads in various sizes are on sale at this office.
In times of high prices every body pays and even the oyster is compelled to shell out. The playful line underscores concerns over inflation affecting daily life and consumer costs.
Mail arrivals and closures listed in hourly stamps including morning and evening windows. Sunday mail arrives at 8 00 a m and closes 4 50 p m with distribution from carriers racks at south door 9 80 to 10 80 a m. Office hours on Sunday from 9 80 to 10 80 a m.
Adams Express schedules show outward departures at 7.50, 11.20, 3.20 and 5.20 a m and inward arrivals at 8.00, 12.00 a m, 2.00 and 6.80 p m for Bristol.
Superintendent Elwood T Wyman of Warwick visited public schools yesterday. Stores advertise Christmas items from dolls to writing paper and gloves. Bristol players discuss police chief election plans. Miss Florence Nelson returned from Saratoga. Mrs Frances L Springer dies at 57 in Newport with funeral Sunday at 2.00 at North Cemetery.
An old advertisement asserts deafness cannot be cured by local applications and must be treated constitutionally. It explains inflamed Eustachian tube from catarrh as the cause and offers Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for any catarrh deafness case it cannot cure. Includes address in Toledo, Ohio and references to Hall’s Family Pills.
A jumble of local ads and notices includes Christmas gift suggestions from Edward D. Kunz jeweler and A. P. Nerone footwear offers. There is also a appeal for a district nurse needing a chest or bureau, framing moulding at Clark's, and notes from St. Mary's Sunday School banquet planning with speeches and solos.
Thomas Quirk died Tuesday evening at about 10 from heart disease at the home of John Fortune near Mt Hope avenue and Flist School street. He was seen in Warren earlier that day by Officer Charles Hall and declined to go to the station. Found unconscious near Suburban railway tracks on Poppasquash road early the next morning, he was moved between homes and died without regaining consciousness. He had worked in the calendar department at the National India Rubber Company. Funeral held at St Mary’s Church with Rev Thomas J. Gillan, burial in St Mary’s Cemetery.
Star Theatre presented Rheed's Marionett theatre as the vaudeville act and listed films including The Japanese Spy Halse Love and True The Belgian Army Lucy at Boarding School Roosevelt Reviewing French Troops Tonight and Saturday a changed program adds new vaudeville acts The Lad from Old Ireland waits Waiter No. 6 will be shown as a Biograph feature for the program and matinee prices are 6 and 10 cents for tomorrow's matinee children attend matinees.
A historical excerpt describes building a hot stone base with ashes and hot stones, layering six to ten inches, placing trout in a row, covering with a second layer of equal thickness, then smoking for about twenty minutes. When unwrapped, the trout remain moist and tender, emitting a faint balsam aroma that enhances flavor.
The York road linked New York and Philadelphia and inspired coastal turnpikes built by chartered companies. The first macadam road opened in 1792 from Philadelphia to Lancaster. By 1810 about 4500 miles of chartered turnpikes existed in New England and New York, but the 1837 panic and rise of railroads halted government highway programs.
Describes parchment making from animal skins including sheep, calves, wolves, and goats. Steps include cleaning in lime, stretching, paring flesh, moistening, applying whiting, pumice rubbing, iron rubbing, and gradual drying to tighten the surface.
Bristol Shoe Repairing Co promises money savings by repairing old shoes and restoring them to new condition. It claims to be the only repairing machine in town and offers shoes made to order for the whole family.
An old editorial line extols grandfathers’ home remedies as effective for a long list of juvenile ailments. The fragment hints at traditional folk practices and skepticism toward modern treatments.
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