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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1907
Page
2
Christmas shopping for sale items and a mortgagee sale advertised with dates 25 and 26 December. The notice lists W. T. O'Donnell E. D Kanz and J Catlau along with the Hotel Belvedere and Cat Amethyst Pin as part of the sale items or associated entities.
The article praises Bristol shop windows and local merchants for beauty and effort while urging residents to shop locally. It argues home stores offer better service, returns, and personal attention, and notes local spending benefits the town over city department stores.
A series of community events is listed including Epworth League sales and suppers at G A R Hall on State Street M E Church December 19 and 20, Christmas festival at Memorial Chapel December 26, Texas Ranger Co at Bristol Opera House December 26, vaudeville shows and old folks concert through December 30, Christ mask festival at St Michael's Sunday school, Albee Stock Co on tape night January 14, masquerade dance January 16, and Robert Emmet Literary Association annual ball February 28 at Grand Army Hall.
Local Bristol post office notes list mail arrival and closing times for weekdays and Sunday, with window hours for stamps. It also records express matter deadlines for Earle & Prew express outward and inward departures and arrivals by time.
Miss Marie Maytum visits cousin in Providence and Mrs Tallman spends winter with Pitman sisters on Franklin street. Advertisements urge Christmas ice cream orders and Phoenix subscriptions with delivery by dinner. Local high society reports include jurors, calendars, presents, and school events.
A Chicago era advertisement claims deafness results from Eustachian tube inflammation and cannot be cured locally. It offers one hundred dollars for any case of catarrh related deafness cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and urges sending for circulars. It also promotes Hoff's Family Pills for constipation.
New York socialite Miss Hattie Morris arrives home to celebrate Christmas as local readers are urged to view two Bristol jeweler and optician Howard Kunz ads. The notices offer Xmas gift ideas to aid in selecting remembrances.
A large Maltese cat described as lame in a front paw offers a $2 reward for return to H F Rawson at 45 State Street or F L Bowen at 22 Burton Street. A female fox terrier, black and white, is reported found with owner to claim without expense at the Phoenix Office. Also listings: to let cottage six rooms on Conner Hope and Oliver streets for $12 monthly. house lots and three costages on Fox Hill Place on easy terms via Eugene Leclair Sr. To let a lower tenement with five rooms, pantry, attic and town water through Mrs K K H DeVore at 11 Burton Street. To rent three furnished houses, 12 to 18 rooms each, in Bristol via Hershshuff Mfg Co office.
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