Small Store sale features ladies undergarments in Bristol
Sale in the Small Store week shows goods by reliable makers with cottons trimmed in first class style. Prices are lower than usual with items such as Ladies Chemise 25 to 37 cents, Drawers 25 to 37 cents, White Skirts 50 cents, and Night Gowns 37 cents to 2.00. Corset covers offered in bargains to rival city prices.
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Bristol
W. F. Peters
Hope Street
Butterick’s
Lewando
Additions in Brown University Historical Catalogue 1764 1894
A dated 1895 catalog excerpt lists recent additions and works by authors such as Doyle, Alcott, Besant, and Burnett. It notes various 12mo and 16mo editions, with titles including The White Company and The Seamy Side, among others, referenced in New York and Providence contexts.
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Brown University
Providence
Doyle
A. Cowan
N.Y
Alcott
Louisa M
H.spital
Beaton
Besant
Walter
Jumea Ricé
Witt Harp and Crown
N. Y
Oslia
Portsmouth Town
Mr. Lusraft
Burnett
Francis Hodgson
Little Christopher at Providence Opera House in January
The Providence Opera House will host Little Christopher the merry burlesque for a week starting Monday Jan 27. The show follows the lineal descendant of the discoverer of America through comic adventures including love intrigue and a World’s Fair finale.
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Little Christopher
New York
Providence Opera House
Christopher
Cadiz
Guinevere
Chicago
Ahrip
Thy
Gavate Gee Teotive
America
Rev. Barataria
Ibd
Spain
L Tule Christopher
Ind
Duke of
Veragua
Engraved Work Offered for Cards Invitations and Crests
The notice advertises copper and steel engraving services for visiting cards business cards wedding invitations announcements reception cards crests and monograms. It invites customers to bring plates or have plates furnished if none are available.
Not Even Labor Day Is A National Holiday Says Lawyers
Lawyers contend that Labor Day, though proclaimed by act of Congress in 1894, is not a nationwide holiday outside the District of Columbia unless states enact it. The article notes earlier Acts limited to DC and explains the Labor Day wording spreads only by state laws.
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United States
District of Columbia
New York Tribune
Reading music and dancing legs in a bagpipe lesson tale
A Mischievous Glasgow Herald excerpt describes a Highlander teaching a regiment mate to read bagpipe music with odd analogies about white faced figures and tied legs. It also notes a creditor meeting scene from Littlewit and a humorous miscalculation about a 50 year old man’s undress and redress totals. The piece touches on North Carolina manufacturing growth and a New York World press distribution change offering thrice weekly editions for two dollars per year.
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Lmysia-Lescom
Glasgow Herald
New York World
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Sherwin- Williams Co
Boston
Bristol, R. I
T. T. Allan
OF New York
George E. Ide
H. M. ‘St. John
Ellis W. Gladwin
W. A. Marshall
William
G. Low
Rhode Island
Frank ”R. Butman
Industrial Trust
Coy Building
Igreene
Bristol Phénix
Rogers Free Library
Dr. Talmage
Aree
Mire
Littlewit
Charles
Mra
North Carolina
Redent
Tillincghast
Westminster Street
R. I
Peters
E Street
Col. State and Thames Streets
Frankforts
Bristol and
Warren
R. P. Ellwood
Prop
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