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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1914
Page
3
A shipboard tale notes a maid dusting a library table while claiming she lost her duster. A whaling report from British Columbia describes the whale capture off the northern Pacific coast, valued at $20,000 for its bone and rarity.
Christmas programs at Taft and Mason Schools featured Santa visits and gift distributions. Taft's December 22 program included recitations, songs, and readings by students from grades 1 to 5, plus prize awards and a tree distribution.
Mrs. Annie Blanchard Ellis Jackson widow of former Lieutenant Governor Frederick H. Jackson died suddenly of heart failure Christmas morning at her sisters’ home in Providence. Born Sept. 16, 1848 in New York City, she moved to Rhode Island in 1891 and was active in temperance and women’s groups. Survived by husband, a son and a daughter, funeral at Central Congregational Church Providence with burial at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Tarrytown.
Fragmentary notices report deaths and ages for several individuals including Mrs Perry Weaver and Mrs George VarDow. Names include Jackson Providence Blanchard Ellsony and Warren Dow. Text references Boston and Dec dates but remains garbled.
The Bristol testimony features 30 000 Americans endorsing Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney and urinary disorders. Michael Solfan of 34 Bay View Avenue reports relief from back pains and irregular kidney secretions after using the advertised remedy. The Bristol case is cited as further proof of the product's efficacy with Millburg Co. of Buffalo listed as the props.
Collison of German troops and hospital trains at Kalicz Poland leaves 400 dead and 500 wounded. Austria admits a disastrous retreat in Servia blamed on bad weather. Russia reports no essential change on the left bank of the Vistula as battles rage along the Plies southwest of Warsaw. German claims of prisoner captures and air raids on Nancy and Sochaczew are noted, with limited Allied responses and naval actions offshore Cuxhaven.
Fragmentary OCR readout shows references to England letters and vases, mentions a Fifth District court docket and a clerk named Johnns Te, with a Whisper of cases including Pasquale Giglio and a fireship theme. The text is garbled and noncontiguous.
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