Wilmington Delaware’s Colonial Echoes and Historic Haunts
A Phoenix dispatch paints Wilmington and its Brandywine area as a living museum. It highlights old churches like Trinity and the 1698 Dia lattaire church site, colonial homes of Caesar Rodney and Bayard, and the Century Club colonial house. The piece notes Swedish missionary ties, early governors, and the city’s blend of quaint quarters and slums with portraits of hospitality and patriot memory.
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Massachusetts
Delaware
Witite
Sweden
Christiana
Eric Bjork
Francis Nicholson
Trinity Pariah
Bayard
Caesar’ Rodney
Philadelphia
Ontakirta
Howard Pyle
National Capitol
Century Club
Library Catalog Highlights New and Notable Volumes
A scanned catalog lists recent library additions with prices and brief notes. Notable items include Crockett and Maartens titles, travels by Livingstone, and Cassell's Natural History in multi-volume sets, plus Boston publications and a range of 8vo and 16mo formats.
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Coolidge
Sisan
Paris
Boston
Barr
Amelia E
Jan Vedder
Hoppin
Augustus
Crompton
Cassell
London
Smith
William
Greece
Fulton’s
Livingstone
David
South Africa
N. Y
Hitchcock
Edward
Mass
Amherst
Rogers Free Library 1896 Annual Report Highlights Growth
The report shows 12 254 bound volumes catalogued and 89 unbound volumes, 492 612 total issues issued in the year, with 3 297 readers eligible. Financials note a $1 782 62 total receipts and a $224 m1 balance. Trustees request an $800 town appropriation.
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Trustees of
Rogers Free Public Library
Olga Nethersole to Open at Providence Opera House
The Providence Opera House hosts Olga Nethersole starting Monday January 18 in a six day run featuring Osimile Denise and Carmen in Henry Hamilton's Merimee adaptation. The engagement comes from the Empire Theatre New York with a large three carload scenery and a company of fifty.
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Providence Opera House
Olga Nethersole
Providence
Miss Nethersole
United States
Mary Anderson
Olga Netheraole
America
Miss Nethersold
Daniel
Charles Frohman
Dumas
Denise
Damaa
Henry Hamilton
Prosper Merimece
Carmen
New York
Empire Theatre
Mise Nethersole
Probate Court Approves Mason Estate Executor Nominee Nimmo Appointments
The Court of Probate approved George H. Peck as executor for Nancy A. Mason’s estate and granted Jane Nimmo’s petition as administrator for Andrew Nimmo’s estate with bonds and appraisers named. William Williams’s administrator petition for Ann Perry’s estate was continued. John R. Hicks’s guardianship petition for Jane Hicks was continued. Scotland observes a New Year fortune Bible test with random open passage.
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Court of Probate
George H. Peck
Nancy A. Mason
Jane Nimmo
Andrew Nimmo
James Nimmo
Herbert F. Bennett
Jot Duthie
William Nimmo
William Williams
Ann Perry
John R. Hicks
Jaane Hicks
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The
Phoenix
Wilmington
Rogers -Free Library
Brown
Henry T
White
Charles E
Providence Fireman
R. I. Adjutant General
NT B. I. Insurance Report
Johnson
England
Hotton
Robert Browning
Cochrane
Theodosius
Hodgkin
Constantinople
Crawford
Garner
Mise Mitford
Townsend
Monk
Fife
Lang
Trooper Ross
Signal Butte
Kings
King of the Schnorrers
Langwill
Ourore
de Amicis
Nora Perry
Otis
Ezra Jordan
Marchioness
Tracy
Miss Phabe Gay
Phelps
Congressional Record
King
Rogers Free Library Report
New Jersey
Phaniz
W. W
Frank Pixley
San Francisco
Probate Court
Scotland
Parpix
Frank Pardee
Phasnix
Fall River
Home Office
Pleasant Street
Fall River, Mass
R. H. Lee
General Managers
G. P. Mason
Keating Wheel CO
Holyoke, Mass
Cai
F.s.burcess
Hope Street
Commonwealth Bondwriting
Munsey’s
McClure’s
Frank Leslie’s
Cosmopolitan
Harpers
Century
Peterson’s
Pleasant Hours
Argosy
Something
Providence Telegram Almanacs
State Street
M.J. Tobin
Fred H. Hoar
Hope St
William, H. Buffington
Bristol, R
Cicars Leggett
Solon Palmer
Bay View Ave
R. Smith Gladding
Steve Dealer
State St
Bristol Phoenix
Robate Court
Bristol
John B. Pearce
Alexander G. Badford
Britto
Bristol Phormixx
Bever
Alstol Tee House
Jody
Prdpr
Kristol
Elizabeth P. Darling
Georgiana L. Douglass
Tate
George H. Douglass
Briato
Sarah L. Wardwell
Sophia L. Wardwell
Bristol Proenix
Aherbert F. Bennett
Z. J. Lewis
Friendship Street
DR. Lewis
B.1
Richmond Street
Weyboaser
Arthur C. Moore
R. I
E.ef.tebbetts
Westminster Street
Providence, R. I
Butler Exchange
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