Republicans Sweep Albany and City Races in 1894 Election
The article notes a 12 year Republican Albany administration and Col. Strong as New York City mayor, the first since 34 years. Brooklyn’s eight Republican mayors predate Schieren’s victory. Tammany’s corruption blamed for Democratic defeat statewide. Independent voters aim to crush Tammany and purify state politics.
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New York City
George Opdyke
Brooklyn
Schieren
Empire State
Tammany
Almanacs and notices from Rhode Island papers 1895
Rhode Island residents gain from Providence Journal and Telegram almanacs for 1895 with general interest compendium. Notes include Pope mandates, New York New Haven and Hartford locomotive orders, Vanderbilt reconciliation, Journal’s 75th anniversary, and various price and labor observations.
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Providence Journal
Providence Telegram
Rhode Island
Telegram
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Rhode Island Locomotive Works
Bristol and vicinity news and notices
Bristol and vicinity items include post office mail times, school term start, candy sale at McNay's, local meetings of water works and lodges, church services, theatre plans, Keeley graduates, charity society reports, and obituaries. Notable entries cover the National India Rubber Works lawsuit, a pig incident, and local business promotions.
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Phenix
Bristol
Obituary Notice of Loss for Mrs. Related Kin
The deceased was mourned by friends and family with bearers Mesara Willard S Le on J and Daniel H Kenney nephews and Mr Isaac B Manro cousin. Remains laid to rest in the family burial ground in the North Cemetery.
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Mary
Wood Street
Wm. J. Smith
State Street Methodist Episcopal Church
Estelle Burnham
Mra
J. Daffy
J. B. Burgess
E. C. Sparks
Ostrie ‘Talbot
Mesara Willard S
Leon J
Daniel H. Kenney
Isaac B. Manro
Peddler Sells Asbestos Imitation Cigar to Fool Wife
A traveling peddler in town offered a pipe imitating a half burned cigar made of asbestos and heat resistant. A man bought it to fool his wife who objected to a pipe at home. The joke backfired when the hot end singed his fingers prompting an angry yet sympathetic confession.
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Eric Johnson
Milville
Woonsocket
O.hearn
Main Street
Johnson
Puanix
James
Special Town Meeting Endorses $6700 Adjustment to Indebtedness
About 50 taxpayers attended the Saturday afternoon session led by moderator W H Spooner. A resolution offered by George A Arnold and J Howard Manchester authorized adding $6700 to town indebtedness to correct an erroneous inclusion in the March 6 1894 appropriation, ensuring the full amount raised by taxation and other sources. The measure passed unanimously after discussion with Town Treasurer Peck and others.
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Read
W. H. Spooner
George A. Arnold
J.__Howard
Manchester
Peck
Edward
Bristol Veteran in the South Writes to Phoenix
Henry C. Gray of Richmond Virginia describes a winter journey from Baltimore to Yorktown and West Point Virginia, visiting Fair Oaks Monkey River and Richmond. He notes his wife accompanies him and weather is colder than expected for the South, dated January 185.
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Richmond
Police Report for December to Council Meeting
Chief Hoard presented December figures: 11 arrests for vagrancy, 3 for peddling without a license, 3 for drunkenness. Two committed to state institutions. Nine arc lights out, ten incandescent lights out. Police calls totaled ij.
Will Sell as Low as Any Providence House on Same Terms
A historical notice promotes real estate sales in Providence offering property at competitive prices under standard terms. The advertisement highlights affordability and equality with other local houses, emphasizing straightforward purchase conditions.
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