New Year Promises and Reflections in the Bristol Phenix
A reflective column discusses promises of the New Year, the weight of experience, and how prudence shapes joy. It notes common hardships, economic hopes, and calls for wiser effort in the coming year, alongside brief mentions of public figures and events.
Provincial politics and chilly winters reviewed
A column itemizes political digs across Canada and New England with anecdotes on Massachusetts bulldozing, York State winters, and a West Catholic clergy rebuke over a Cathedral beer sale. It notes Yale lectures by Bishop Simp son, ends with Uncle Sam education endowments and Providence city government changes led by Mayor Doyle and Henry V. Joslin as city clerk.
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Providence
Doyle
Henry V. Joslin
Samuel W. Brown
Harpers Weekly praised as a New Year feast of richness
A Hartford report notes the stone breaking cure for tramps works well, but authorities plan to enforce the law on homeless dwellers living in barns. The piece ends with a promotional flourish extolling Harper's Weekly as a universal blessing and holiday reading choice.
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Hartford
Conn
Harper's Weekly
Harper’s Weekly
New York Letter on the Dead Year and Resumption Day
From Our Own Correspondent New York Jan 7 1879 reflects on the year 1878 and the start of 1879 noting it was cold with mercury low and rivers iced. It describes New Year customs, the Custom House greenback payments, and the Gold Room closure at the Stock Exchange as specie payments resume. The piece cites banks traders and officials and mentions gold reserves and public reaction.
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Our
New York
Mercury of
Custom House
Wall Street
Uncle Sam
Merritt
Hillhouse
Navy Yard
Sub-Treasury
The
Stock Exchange
Svar
Raprx
Winter tightens grip on town with ice and cold
The article notes a cold January settling in Providence with ice in streams and houses, comments on public night schools beginning a new term, predicts winter's impact on the poor, and mentions the January session of the General Assembly starting next Tuesday. It also recalls garden sociables postponed due to weather and a reflection on the value of a dollar as gold becomes known.
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New England
General Assembly
Providence
Regular School Committee Meeting At Byfield Hall
The regular monthly meeting of the School Committee was held at Byfield Hall last Monday evening. There was not much business of importance to the public transacted. The Committee adjourned to meet next Tuesday evening.
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Byfield Hall
Messrs
Spooner
Lawless, Bennett and Trotter
Samuel M. Lindsey
Samuel White
Gideon Girard
Nathaniel Lawless
Samuel S. Munro
Allen Munro
Evelin B. Bache
Henry W. Bache
A. N. Miller
F. L. Williams
James N. Gifford
T. C. Wardwell
James D. Wardwell
Evelin Bache
Bond
Wm. T. C. Wardwell
James D. Wardwell, Jr
Elizabeth W. Guiteras
Ramon Guiteras
William H. Spooner
William B. Spooner
Julia S. Perry
James Dew. Perry
Maria E. Lindsey
Thomas F. Lindsey
Ann Lindsey
James P. Lane
Rogers Free Library
Maria Dew. Rogers
J. Lewis Diman
D. D
Providence
M. T. Bennett
J. G. Watson
J. P. Lave
George A. Arnold
Mary E. Thompson
Rogers
Young Men's Christian Association
Kine Pamir
Eneme Co. No. 1
James P. Lyon
Robert Lawder
James Anderson
Charles F. Brown
Samuel B.chafee
Charles H. Bullock
J Harvey Wescott’s Disappearance After Christmas 1876
J Harvey Wescott visited Bristol in 1876 aboard the U S S Juniata and again in 1877 as a picture dealer agent. He later became a Sunday School teacher and formed a 99 cent store with T H Wilcox on Hope Street. After Christmas he left town claiming a Boston trip and took between 700 and 800 dollars, leaving creditors and his partner behind. He is described as smooth talking and hypocritical.
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J. Harvey Wescott
Juniata
Bristol
Wescott
Wilcox
T. H. Wilcox
Hope Street
Boston
O Mara jailed for liquor offenses in Bristol town court
Dennis O Mara, east Thames street near State corner, was arraigned for selling liquor illegally and for keeping a dram shop and tippling shop. He was found guilty on two counts, each with a $20 fine and 10 days in jail, and a $200 bond set for appeal on the nuisance charge.
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Dennis O’mara
Thames Street
State
Tippling
Justice Court
O’mara
O'Mara
Supreme Court
P. Colt, Esq
B. M. Bosworth, Jr
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