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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 26, 1895
Page
1
An old Bristol Rhode Island advertisement from the Boston Store at 84 Hope Street promises a strong new year. It highlights sales on socks and stockings, women's undergarments, dresses, skirts, curtains, and cotton fabrics with notably low prices and frequent emphasis on quality and value.
Town accounts list payments to Bristol Gas Light Co Providence Telephone Co and multiple officials for street lighting health department ballot booths police station and printing services totaling several hundred dollars with numerous names and items referenced. continuation noted.
Local retailer at 100 Hope Street promotes a cash sale of laces veils corsets and dress goods. Highlights include featherbone corsets remnant fabric half price and stock of shirts and undergarments with 1895 gingham patterns and a 6 percent cash card savings.
The document presents ratios and monetary figures including expenses vs receipts for 1804, police in force as of December 3, 1894, and insurance at 9.04 percent amounting to 156,686.871.00. It names Jacob L. Greene as President John M. Taylor as Vice President Edward M. Bunce as Secretary Daniel H. Wells as Actuary and William G. Barrows as General Agent of 48 Custom House Street Providence R I.
The subscriber Edwin F Lindsey administrator on the estate of Charles F Simmons of Bristol calls on all indebted to the estate to make immediate payment and those with claims to present them for settlement. The subscriber, approved by the Bristol Court of Probate, is administrator on the estate of Charles F Simmons deceased.
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