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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 31, 1909
Page
3
Anonymous presents a moral verse urging endurance in work and faith. It contrasts hardship with resolve, urging to rise and labor despite loneliness and doubt. The speaker reassures divine guidance and companionship, framing toil as necessary and worthwhile.
Comrade Charles L Locke former carpenter from this town died at Rhode Island Hospital Tuesday evening of erysipelas. He left the Soldiers' Home on Dec 9 on furlough and was visiting Providence when illness struck last Sunday. Born in this town, he resided here many years and joined Company G, Second Rhode Island Volunteers in the Civil War. He was admitted to the Soldiers' Home April 11, 1901. Interment will be in the North Cemetery with later entombment in the soldiers' lot.
Patrick Pendergast died at the Soldiers' Home on Wednesday morning at 3 15 after long illness. He served in Company VII, Ninety Battalion New York Infantry during the Civil War. Admitted to the Home from Olneyville on June 12, 1899, he had been in hospital there. He is survived by a Providence resident daughter. Funeral at St Marys Church at 9 am and entombment in St Marys Cemetery.
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A 19th or early 20th century style ad promotes Doan's Kidney Pills for kidney pain fatigue and urinary issues. It cites Bristol reader John Holmes of 220 Thomas St and claims relief after using the product. The ad notes price 60 cents and Foster Milburn Co as sole US agents with the tagline Remember the name Doan's.
Recap of town events from December 1899 including a 10 percent mill increase notice, deaths in Hartford and local obituaries, fraternal lodge officer elections, a Royal Arcanum council election, revival services, a large cistern completion for fire protection, weather and harbor notes, and a scene of campers from South Orange New Jersey awaiting Christmas. Names include Martin Bennett Jr, Henry Peterson, John Best, W Fred Fish, W J Munro, George Suydam, Richard Leigh, and Rev. Edward Carrigan. The piece also mentions the old schooner Napoleon and local industrial updates in Bristol.
The Honk Honks won two strings from the Strikers last evening as Dimond and Hawkins bowled above the hundred mark. Team No 6 took three straight from Team No. 3 with solid scoring.
Tuesday evening Team No. 3 won three straight from Team No. 4. A long excerpt offers tea brewing guidance and cautions about tannin, plus health notes on buttermilk and light menus for girls. The piece attributes advice to Dr Jeann Williams in Woman's Home Companion.
The region recorded subzero readings from Dr Howe farm at 6 a.m. to 4 above on Bristol Neck and Metacom Avenue with many towns listing below zero. By 1 p.m. the Dr Howe home showed 4 above, while sleighing and coasting thrived among residents. A 40 year old man was found frozen to death in Georgia Hill. Freight trains resumed on the Bristol and Warren branch after last Friday’s halt and electric trains between Warren and Fall River were restored with steam power temporarily. The trolley line Warren to Swansea reopened and suburban Rhode Island cars ran to Barton Street terminal for the first time since the storm. The Providence Telephone Company continues restoring lines to pre storm condition.
A compact listing of 1909 events notes fires in St Paul and Fort Worth, shipwrecks off Australia, obituaries including Miss Martha Finley and Geronimo, major political moves by Taft, battleships to Hampton Roads, and global shocks from earthquakes to storms. It traces Panama Canal opening, Morocco pact, Lincoln centenary, and mutinies in the Ottoman Empire with multiple notable deaths and disasters through February and March.
In the Probate Court of Bristol on Dec 29 190h Clara M McCaw Guardian petitions for authorization to sell two undivided sixteen parts of real estate in Warren Rhode Island tied to the estates of minors Louis C Easterbrooks and Susan Easterbrooks. The parcels total about 65 acres and are described by metes and bounds with references to Palmer River Saint Joseph's Orphanage Swansea Road and land formerly of Arthur Loughran. The petition requests sale to pay debts provide support and enable better investment and is set for Jan 17 1910 at 10 30 A M with notice to be published for fourteen days in the Bristol Phoenix.
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