Town Council Special Meeting Highlights and Elections
A Friday evening Town Council session authorized surveyor James Tobin to clear snow on district routes using his own judgment and to keep separate accounts for road and sidewalk work. Election of supervisors for March 11 proceeded with Republican picks Wm. McCaw Thomas Ashton and Arthur W. Barrett and Democratic picks Edward F. Christie Thomas F. Head and Walter H. Coggeshall. A fire protection letter from Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. requested water pipes and hydrants near Walker's Cove. clerk to notify the water company. Fire department and wharf reports were read and filed. year’s receipts were 868 41 with expenses 56, balance 812 41. The meeting adjourned to February 27.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Tobin
Wm. McCaw
Thomas Ashton
Arthur W. Barrett
Edward F. Christie
Thomas F. Head
Walter H. Coggeshall
Herreshoff Manufacturing Co
Walker's Cove
Hope Street
Ferryroad
Water Company
Board of Engineers
Fire Department
Oliver H. Blaisdell, Jr
In this office over eleven years inquire about us
A concise business notice stating the office has operated for over eleven years and inviting inquiries about services. It references a financial tie in the Industrial Trust Co., suggesting registered legitimacy and a request for potential clients or partners to seek more information.
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Financial Reference
Industrial Trust Co
Engraved Calling Cards and Invitations Offered at Popunix Office
Orders for engraved calling cards wedding invitations and announcements receive prompt attention at the Popunix Office. For per plate engraving or printing from your plate call No 18 Bradford Street. We offer fashionable styles and sizes and telephone connection.
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Monogram
Popunix
Bradford Street
Scott's Emulsion Advertises Fat Feeding for Consumption
Old remedy lore notes salt pork as a traditional treatment for consumption with fat as essential. The ad argues pork is hard on sensitive stomachs while Scott's Emulsion offers refined fat easily digested, claiming cod liver oil and phosphites boost weak lungs. A free sample is offered.
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Scott
Robert Emmet Society Holds Annual Concert and Ball
The Robert Emmet Literary Society held its annual concert and ball at Grand Army hall on Friday evening. A large crowd from Providence, Warren and nearby towns attended as Straight Brothers orchestra supplied the dancing music. The program featured marches, overtures, a trombone solo, and waltzes before a grand march led by Peter J Colton and Miss Margaret Sharke. An hour intermission allowed for supper, after which dancing continued into the late hours. The event credited its success to committee members Michael J Doyle, John J Byrnes, Patrick P Walsh, Peter J Colton, and Patrick Garrity, with officers including Colton as general floor director and Thoms J Brides as assistant director.
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Robert Emmet Literary Society
Grand Army Hall
Providence
Warren
Straight Brothers Orchestra
Erin
Frank H Straight
Barbara Fretchie
Alakazam” Flotzmanan
Peter J Colton
Margaret Sharke
Read
Michael J. Doyle
John J.byrnes
Patrick P. Walsh
Peter J. Colton
Patrick Garrity
Thoms J. Brides
John J. Farley
Dennis J. McCarty
William F. Finley
John Hart
Neil B. Sharkey
John Nixon
Wm. M. Nerone
Wm.m.connery
Edward Gillespie
Dancing Class Masquerade at Grand Army Hall
The pupils of Miss E M Handy's dancing school held a Masquerade and German at Grand Army hall last Friday afternoon. A large audience of parents and friends attended. Dances featured characters such as Wilhelmina Brigham as a College Girl and Elizabeth Emmons as a French Peasant, with many more listed including Japanese, Sailor Girl, Fairy, Gypsy, and Continental.
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E. M Handy
Grand Army Hall
Wilhelmina Brigham
Marion Emmons
Elizabeth Emmons
Mildred Gorham
Phyllis Farrally
Gertrude Bopp
Charlotte Young
Jeanette Moffitt
Pearl Hodgson
Helen Connery
Iola Thompson
Viola Brown
Eva Cole
Millie Johnson
Folly
Regina Heffernan
Fern Dixon
Mary Easterbrooks
Butterfly
Bessie Ferguson
May Hodgson
Harriet Hunt
Martha Washington
Helen Warren
Beatrice Thompson
Ira Shepard
Alexander Hamilton
Albert Flint
Continental
Edward Bunn
Arthur Bunn
Floyd Huestis
Page
James Salisbury
Francis Herreshoff
Howard Newman
Albert Young
Knight
Carl Rockwell
Frederick Williams
Two Kinds of Curiosity in a Prison Visit
A philanthropic visitor asks the jailbird why he is imprisoned. The inmate replies that both came from a desire to pry into others affairs, noting he once entered through a basement window.
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Jailbird
Rhode Island Governor Garvin Visits Soldiers Home for Washington's Birthday
Arnold Post G A R of Providence brings Gov Garvin and guests to the Soldiers Home to celebrate Washington's Birthday. The group toured the home, heard songs by the Ladies International Band, and Gov Garvin spoke on Civil War views, reunion, and veteran welfare before departing by special car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arnold Post
Providence
Washington
Gov. Garvin
Babbitt Post
G. A.R
George Washington
Capt. Hall
Ethel V. Graves
Lillian B. Graves
Hattie M. Sulloway
Sadies B. Hawkes
International Ladies’ Band
Benjamin L Hall
51St Regiment
Massachusetts
South
Gov Garvin
Rhode Island
Orray T. Mason
Sons of Veterans
State Department
James S. Hudson
Women and Kidney Trouble Advised Treatment
A historic notice explains that kidney trouble affects both women and men, lowering ambition and vigor. It promotes Swamp-Root by Dr Kilmer as a remedy, with sample bottles and pamphlets available by mail, and instructs readers to mention the paper and address in Binghamton, New York.
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Dr. Kilmer & Co
Binghamton, N. Y
Swamp-Root
Nearly Forfeits His Life and Bucklee Salve Cure
A runaway incident nearly ended fatally for J. B. Orner in Franklin Grove Illinois. Four years of illness resisted doctors until Bucklee's Alpha Salve cured him. The ad promotes 25¢ salve at J H Young & Co Drug Store along with notes on local events and a fall stationery line.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Orner
Franklin Grove
Bucklee
J H. Young & Co
District Court Session Opens With No Trials
Judge Bosworth presided as the regular session opened and was brief with no cases tried. Joseph Benjamin versus John Gearns et al was continued to March. Radovsky versus Ponte entered and continued two weeks in a book account suit of 18.96 with money held by A. DeFreitas as trustee attached. Locolof and Perkins versus Makowsky continued one week. Two trespass actions entered with Bridget McVay as plaintiff. in one Crowley and in the other Perry as defendants, both answered and continued.
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District Court
Bosworth
Joseph Benjamin
John Gearns
Joseph S. Radovsky
Joseph P. Ponte
Fall River
A. DeFreitas
Bristol
Locolof
Perkins
Max Makowsky
Bridget McVay
Thomas H. Crowley
William R. Perry
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Combination Ladder Co
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Gineers
Appus
Hydraulion
King Philip Station
Board of Eo
Hall
The
Phaniz
Lannon
Town Hall
Republican Town Committee
Conn
Pace Nxix
J J. Vera
P. J. Lannon
Consant
U. S. Dental Association
Westminster Street
Union, Providenge
Hubert A. Lewis
Bowne
Pearl St
N. Y. Soc
Robert Emmet
Soldiers’ Home
Ham of
Beecham’s
Beecham
C. F Fields
Baptist Church of Bristol
Rusty Five
Robber
Phoenix
Hudson
F. L. Hudson
Hon. Frank &. Hudson
Seth Ward Ghicago
Ill
Newport Pompado
Newport
Sue
Dr. King
J. H. Young & Co
Phcnix Office
GWE
Dwinell, Wright Co
White House
Fish
Englis
Block Island
Alaska
Datong
Lowney’s
Hooton
Kennedy
D. G. Lebb
Bradford ST
Gray
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