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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1883
Page
2
The item notes typhoid fever sweeping Dennysville Maine as a notable illness among local residents. It also reports a Wil liamstown Massachusetts farmer seeking confinement in a lunatic asylum claiming a strong urge to kill someone.
The New York fire commissioners resolve to form a life saving corps with a training school and competent instructors. They will distribute trained personnel along with light scaling ladders and ropes to hook and ladder companies.
President Arthur returns to St John’s Episcopal Church, the historic parish for generations, walking through Lafayette Park and entering by a side door while a festive scene unfolds at the front entrance with servants and ceremonial display. The church remains crowded and seen as Washington’s most aristocratic house of worship.
Washington letters discuss New Year social calls, post office growth, and detective corruption in 1883 Washington. Prax, New York reports bustling season of weddings, exclusive society, Jay Gould nightlife, and late trains impact on workers. Robbery schemes and rogues gallery notes conclude with inspector Byrnes’ tactics.
Rev George L Locke writes from Nazareth Palestine November 26 1882 describing the hill behind the town as a place Jesus may have climbed He notes Mediterranean breezes Esdraelon Jezreel Mount Carmel and Elijah Gideon and Deborah stories seen from the hill He visits an English missionary girls orphanage and recalls hearing Jesus of Nazareth passeth by sung in Arabic and English in Nazareth.
A cold snow storm hit Wednesday with light drifts. Dreadnaught Hook Ladder and Hose Co to hold a grand Fair at Town Hall on January 18 19 20 22 and 23. At the monthly School Committee meeting last Monday only six members attended and little public business was done.
The week long prayer services concluded with a public sale of the former Dunbar grocery at Hope and Franklin streets. Auctioneer Benjamin M. Lincoln sold the building by order of the assignee for 740 dollars, H. H. Bosworth purchasing. The Wednesday meeting was skipped due to heavy snow.
Bristol becomes a signal service station with signals displayed on the Herreshoff Manufacturing Co. Mill flagstaff and daily reports shown in the Earl and Prew Express office window on Hope Street. Mr. Lewis Herreshoff is named to oversee the station.
Fire discovered last Tuesday at about 10 o'clock in the grocery and meat store run by Mr. William F. Paull on Church and Hope. The Kickemuit water system was used from hydrants for the first time. Building slightly injured, stock nearly destroyed by fire and water.
A general alarm rang after 10 pm Saturday as Howland’s swamp saw a large ice house owned by Mr Josephus Gooding burn. The fire, likely incendiary, destroyed the building and ice gathering tools. Estimated loss runs from 1000 to 1200 dollars, with 600 dollars insured.
The Board of Managers of the Children's Home acknowledges various donations for the month ending January 9 1883 including sums from Mrs Richard Smith a friend and Miss C M Shepard plus in kind gifts. The Town Council met with full board present and appointed Mr Robert N Church to conduct the 1882 birth and death census and to oversee related data. An ordinance defined duties of physicians and undertakers in deaths burials and removals. Water works pipes and hydrants were reported ready. Town bills totaling 369 31 were approved for payment.
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