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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1894
Page
2
A busy schedule fills the town with church attendances social events and fraternal gatherings. Rev J A Thompson hosts services and a new Bible gift appears. the Epworth League concert tickets go on sale. and various lodges report installation and meetings with officers named.
A grand Music hall banquet celebrated the Hydraulion Engine and Hose Company’s fiftieth charter anniversary. Chief speakers included Lieutenant Governor Wardwell and Chief Engineer Rounds, with poems, songs, and a ceremony naming officers for the next year.
Hood's Sarsaparilla is prepared from sarsaparilla dandelion mandrake dock pipsissewa juniper berries and other remedies by a unique combination and process giving curative powers not possessed by other medicines. It effects remarkable cures when other preparations fail.
Members gathered for a watch meeting last Sunday with many in attendance. Leaders expect special meetings to begin February 1. The Bristol Y M C A rooms will be renovated and become comparable to any town of its size.
A large attendance filled the State street armory for the Hydraulion Engine and Hose Co No 1 thirty second annual grand ball on Monday evening. Guests from Pawtucket Providence Newport Warren and Tiverton attended with other town companies. Carter's Band Orchestra of Middleboro Mass played under Prof J M Carter. The grand march led by Floor Manager Walter H Coggeshall and Miss Mary Young opened the event. About 125 couples formed the march and dancing continued until about 4 o'clock.
Advertisers claim Hall's Hair Renewer can avert gray hair and baldness for a long time, presenting the product as a solution to age marks. The snippet emphasizes the remedy as a preventive cosmetic.
Prof. H P Pierce born February 12 1826 in Bristol Rhode Island died December 24 1893 in Baylis Illinois aged 67 years 10 months and 11 days He was a music teacher organist and choir instructor educated in Bristol and Boston Married May 19 1848 in New York to Mary Pilling They had three children Charles L H Pierce Edward M Hartley and Mrs James H Fish Known for Christian faith and charity He passed after three weeks bed confinement exclaiming I have seen Jesus.
The quoted fragmentary lines reveal a dying man’s last words and a speaker’s reflection on life and death. The passage centers on fatigue and the transient nature of existence, evoking themes of mortality and spiritual concern.
A dealer claims that England and France produced hides are used as chamois skin substitutes. He states a single importing house could consume in one year all true chamois skin Switzerland produced in ten.
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