Labor strike halts Panama canal work and more
The past week has seen near total stoppage of Panama Canal work due to a general strike among laborers. Boston watchers await Oscar Wilde eating beans in a quirky scene. Also noted are Par a Rubber Co to locate in South Framingham, Beecher's apology in Brooklyn, and Massachusetts leading New England in steam craft.
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Panama Canal
Para Rubber Company
Boston
South Framingham
SGP
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Rhode Island
New England
Roaring 1882 New York-Brisbane Letter On Cities and Notices
In BrisTo Phennix New York January 17 1882 a writer reflects on Bristol like scenes of daily life in big cities. The piece covers a funeral in Brooklyn for J. M. Wardwell with pastor Rev. Van Dyke and remarks on mortality and local statistics for Warren 1881. It also reviews Harper's Magazine February with portraits of Victor Hugo descriptions of Philadelphia Mexico and Henry Irving and life saving stories. A $20 prize for shortest verse in the Old Testament is offered by Rutledge Publishing with entry details and a deadline.
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New York
Eorror
Poanix
Bristol
Greenwood
J. M. Wardwell
Brooklyn
Texas
van Dyke
H. S. Carpenter
Wardwell
Christ
Robuat
Earth
Heaven
Harper's Macazine
Victo Hugo
Philadelphia
George P. Lathrop
W. H. Bishop
Mexico
Anna Bowman Blake
Reinhart
Joseph Hatton
Henry Irving
Irving
Martha J. Lamb
F. F. Fryatt
Wilson Industrial School
John Fiske
W. L. Alden
John H. B. Latrobe
Daniel Webster
John Lillie
London
Patience
T. W. Dewing
J. W. DeForest
T. W. Robertson
Harriet Prescott Spofford
Lizzie W. Champney
Rutledge's Monthly
Rutledge Publishing Company
Easton
Patent Cough and Blood Remedy Advertisements
Wistar’s Balsam of Wild Cherry advertised as a cure for coughs colds bronchitis whooping cough croup influenza consumption and all throat lung and chest diseases. Available at 50 cents and 1 per bottle. Peruvian Syrup promoted for dyspepsia debility liver disease boils humors chronic diarrhea nervous complaints female complaints and other blood disorders.
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Wistar
Avgeon
AvEer
USA
Advent Chapel sermons and town notices in Providence
The section notes longer days since Christmas and a wintry thaw. Elder B T Church Westerly will preach at Advent Chapel Sunday. Bankrupts of Bristol topic at State Street M E Church Sunday evening. National Rubber Co plant to restart early next week. Y M C A to host Helen Potter Pleiades at Town Hall January 27. Japanese tea party for Rhode Island Homeopathic Hospital Fund next Tuesday at Mrs E W Brunson’s Hope Street. Barretts cornet highlights the Helen Potter Pleiades. House numbering by Thomas and Danforth proceeds, cost twenty five cents per figure. An old Vermont blind woman enjoyed Miss Potter until the reading class. she questioned why “them young uns” were brought along. Next Friday will feature “them young uns.”
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Suy
E. W. Brunson
Hope Street
Rhode Island Homeopathic Hospital Fund
Vermont
Miss Potter
Howe
Reading
Central Diocese
York
New York
Clark
Rhode Island
Bishop Stevens
Philadelphia
Bristol
John Howe
St. Luke’s Church
Thirteenth Street
Spruce
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Episcopal Church
United States
E. W. Brunsen
R.x
Miss Gooding Delights Middleboro Audience at Esther
The Middleboro News notes Miss Nonie Gooding of Bristol Rhode Island delivered a remarkable debut as the Beautiful Queen in Esther. At eighteen, she sang and acted with grace, earning the praise of the entire audience despite less than ideal conditions.
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The
Middleboro News
the Sun Inst
Esther
Nonie Gooding
Bristol
R. I
Middleboro
Miss Gooding
Amateurs Delight Town Hall With Benefit Entertainment
The Idiosyncratic Club presented Chimney Corner and Poor Pillicoddy in Town Hall on Thursday evening to benefit the Thames Street Reading Room. The drama and farce drew a large attentive audience, praised for fine acting and tasteful stage settings. Mary Schroeder, eighteen, was arrested Friday in Boston on larceny charges involving valuables from M. J. Moss’s home on Parker Street. She confessed to taking some items and was taken to Boston Saturday for trial without Governor’s requisition.
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Town Hall
Thames Street
Chimney Corner
Pillicoddy
Mary Schroeder
M. J. Moss
Parker Street
Boston
Heard
R. W. Thayer
Mary
Bristol table at Homoeopathic Fair in Providence
The Bristol table at the Homoeopathic Fair in Music Hall Providence, led by Mrs Senator Bourn and Mrs Wardwell with Misses Bourn and DeWolf, featured Burnside mementoes. Items included silver tableware, a history of the First Rhode Island Regiment, Gen Burnside’s coat of arms, autograph cards, china, envelopes with monogram, and artistic fancy articles. Two chairs, a Pompeiian plush chair and a sawing chair, were offered by share.
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Bristol
Music Hall
Providence
Senator Bourn
Wardwell
Bourn
DeWolf
Journal
Burnside
Rhode Island
Woodbury
Offcer
Army of the Union
Share
Impersonation of Susan B Anthony at Pleiades show
During a October run at the Masonic Temple in New York City Miss Potter appeared in the likeness of Susan B Anthony to an enthusiastic audience. Anthony was escorted on stage and thanked Potter for a scene recalling her Rochester voting trial. Also noted are parish anniversary movements and local obituaries.
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New York City
Avery
New York
London
Europe
New York State
Masonic Temple
Miss Potter
Susan B. Anthony
Miss Anthony
Fourth Annual Report of Rogers Free Library 1881
The Rogers Free Library reports a favorable year ending December 31, 1881 with 2120 patrons up 87. Circulation reached 25 825 volumes though down 3 229 from the prior year due to limited new purchases and readers’ leisure during manufacturing slowdowns. Net volume additions were 584 bringing total to 6 484 with 180 rebound.
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Rogers Free Library
Library duties and Burnside death noted in annual report
The annual report discusses library policy on fiction and morality, responsibility for readers, and the small share of additions to fiction. It notes rising reference use in schools and Chautauqua circles, crediting Mr. Chase, and records the death of Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside and its impact. A treasurer's summary records expenditures and purchases, including volumes added in Burnside's honor.
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Gen. Burnside
Ambrose E. Burnside
Rhode Island
Senator Burnside
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Peleg C. Anthony
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Henry H. Fish
Burgess
Samuel Burgess
Phoenix Marine Journal
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Samuel C. Hart
Tilley
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WM. M. Coit
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G. B. Grane
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Holden
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Shode Taland
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Daniel Honan
Henry Patten
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Elizabeth Norris
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John B. Pearce
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Martita Washington
Moore
Pleiades
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Nannie Louise Hart
J. Williams Macy
L. Lichtenberg
Addie Barrett
Anna Ring Greene
Easterbrooks
Ips
Druy. Btore
High and
Tf G. BE Crane
Bristol Phenix
Peter Gladding
J. C. Greenough
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co
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