Bristol Phere and World News Snippet Collection
Unusual cold weather across France. United States Minister Coolidge hosted a New Years reception in France. Prof. Eben N. Horsford, Harvard chemist, died January 1. Italian Matteo Lanni jailed seven years for manslaughter in Providence. Rev. A. W. Mills to Brooklyn church. The Grand Old Man term linked to Gladstone by Sir William Harcourt in 1880. Temperance owner Lady Henry Somerset runs fourteen buildings used as saloons. Indiana ad seeks a schoolteacher with wages ten dollars monthly. Strong trade year ends with holiday boom. December settlements up 10 percent. Nile as world’s vital river. Egypt’s civilization tied to Nile commerce. Paris rag-and-bag economy. Paris feeds thousands through junk and waste trade. Proletarian Paris excerpt.
Bristol Deaths and Interments in 1892 Report
The Bristol town death toll for December shows 10 deaths with 6 males and 4 females, ages 18 to 63 years, with 9 adults and 1 child. Causes include apoplexy, cancer, lung disease, paralysis, and other ailments. Interments: North Cemetery 6, St Mary's 3, Juniper Hill 1. The year 1892 totals 105 deaths, with a year-long age breakdown and a list of names and ages for the deceased. The notice also lists interment totals by cemetery and provides other minor local data.
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North Cemetry
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Juniper Hill
Bristol
C. A. Greene
Montee
Elizabeth B.chadwick
Sarah P. Briggs
James E. Chase
Eunice S. Hyde
Richard
Hannah C. Corthell
Martha T. Buffington
Deborah L. Midgett
Atilis Media
John Gray
Bright
Sarah A. Gladding
Augustus Heise
Dennis H. Arnold
Harriet G. Freeborn
Margaret Patton
Alice Rogers
Edwin H. Arnold
Thomas Slattery
North Cemetery
St. Mary's Cemetery
Warren
DeWolf
Providence
Pawtucket
Oak Grove
Fall River
Newport
Hope
R.I
Whitman
Mass
Race-Track Brute Death and Other Sidelights
A trotting mare on a Boston-area track died after bursting a blood vessel while striving in a heat, highlighting cruelty on the racecourse amid talk of trotting records. Also recounted are stories of Ye and his wife at a Washington reception and a poem comparing man to a book, with reflections on display and value.
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West
Timberline
Boston
Kickapoo Remedies Awe Frontier Readers Again
Frontier tale extols Kickapoo Indian Remedies with a cured stomach trouble. Narrates learning of the medicine from a Southern Indian and emphasizes the remedy’s high regard among pioneers and tribes.
Cantata of the Birth of Christ at Congregational Chapel
Local note reports a Cantata of the Birth of Christ performed Wednesday evening by Sabbath School members and the choir. Santa Claus visited, distributing candy to younger scholars as the chapel overflowed with friends of the school.
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Christ
Santa Claus
Dr Greene Lecture Delights Veterans at Epworth League
Dr Greene spoke on Fun and Fury of a Soldier Life to Epworth League and veterans at the G A R Hall. The large turnout filled the hall and prompted the managers to move the remaining course to the Town Hall for better access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Greene
Epworth
Lecture on Ober-Ammergau Passion Play at Town Hall
On Thursday February 2 under Congregational Club auspices Rev J J Lewis of Boston speaks at Town Hall on the renowned Passion Play of Ober-Ammergau with stereoptical illustrations. A large audience is hoped. the vivid tableaux can be enjoyed locally without travel. The town also notes council and police reports for December 1892 with arrests, disturbances, and incidents, plus library and street-light matters and town bills totaling 2685 50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational Club
Town Hall
J. J. Lewis
Boston
Ober-Ammergau
Trinity Church
Lewis
Lown Council
C. H Manning
Herreshoff Mafg. Co
Metacom Avenue
J Muller
Rogers Free Library
Will and Probate Court Holds Monday Session Probate Judge Spooner
The Court of Probate convened with Judge Spooner presiding. Multiple wills were proved approved and ordered recorded including those of Simon DeW Liscomb Almira G Church Abbie A Vickery Julia Clifford Mason Pierce and Harriette P Aspinwall. Administrators executors and appraisers were named with bonds and sureties listed. Several guardianships and inventories were continued or received.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Mason Pierce
Ann Pierce
Russell Newman
Court of Probate
Council Chamber
William H. Spooner
Simon Dew
Liscomb
Hezekiah W. Church
Charles H. Church
Charles H. Manchester
Herbert F. Bennett
Almira G. Church
Wm. T. C Wardwell
Abbie A. Vickery
Phebe A. Vickery
Samuel J. Vickery
Amos K. Bullock
Samuel Taylor
Julia Clifford
John J. Christie
Robert Newbold
James Tobin
Thomas Duffy
A. Russell Newman
Allen M. Newman
Charles F. Paine
George H. Peck
Hannah Reynolds
E. D. Poole
Mary A
William G
Thomas N. Manley
Harriet P. Brownell
George A. Pike
William H. Aspinwall
Harriette P. As
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Bristol Paanix
United States
Canada
France
Coolidge
Cleveland
Chicago
Eben N. Horsford
Harvard College
Matteo Lanni
A. W. Mills
First Methodist Episcopal Church
First Reformed Presbyterian Church
Brooklyn
N. Y
Mr. Gladstone
William Harcourt
England
Henry Somerset
Temperance Advocate
Indiana
New York
Dun & Co
Nile
Egypt
Assuan
Thebes
Memphis
Tanis
Mediterranean
British Isles
Ancient
Harper's
Paris
Tueropore Oniip
Harpis
Ayer
Ayers
Hagpeer’s Weekly
Madigan Square
A. E Watrous
F . du Mond
Chamber of Deputies
Stephen Bonsal
St John the Divine
St Luke's New Hospital
New York City
Pers
Ers
Great West
Great Divine Publishing Co
Arapahoe Street
Denver
Prence
Providence Opera Hovse
John Stetson
Globe Theatre
Dumas
John B. Kellard
Edgar L. Davenport
Joseph E Whiting
Carrie Turner
Eliza Proctor Otis
Jane Stuart
Helen Kinnaird
Harry Saint-Maur
James Brown Potter
Kyle Bellew
Zola
Therese Raquini
Humphreys
Lane
Town of
Hezekiah W
Churuh
Will
Jaiw
William T. C. Wardwell
Lydia W. Kendall
Anna M. Kendall
PHQUI
David Gs
Yidward Vincent
Springfield
GS As8ar
Rush Nebraska
Rushville
Nebraska
Kay
Ene
Healy & Bigelow
New Haven
Conn
Asay
Todian
Grand Avenue
Com
Local Affairs
Boy
Puanix Office
Public Common, Jr. Ginedon
Bristol Water Works
Bristol Gas Light Co
Geo. W
Bristol Electric Light Co
J . Ingraham
Card—Murray
St Stephen's Church
di Fiske
Kir Wm R. Trotter
Trity Church
Arthur E Card
Migs Nellie C. Murray
James Pyle
N.Y
DR. Hough
Pawnix
J. B. Barnaby Co
Mathematics
T. H. Pockel
Burnside
Holiday Presents
Joshua Gray
Westminster Street
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