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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1909
Page
2
Editorial urges local business men to form a Business Men's Association for mutual benefit. It stresses the need for energy cooperation and ongoing effort, with all members mobilized through a single organization to sustain local projects. Get together, gentlemen.
The New York Tribune lauds wireless telegraphy as a signal triumph for maritime safety. It credits the invention with enabling rapid passenger and crew rescue, bridging space and sea fog, and reducing sea travel perils by enabling timely assistance that would have been unlikely in earlier times.
At noon yesterday Governor Magoon retired after more than two years as supreme ruler and Maj Gen Jose Miguel Gomez was inaugurated President of the republic. Vice President Alfredo Zayas and the Cabinet were sworn in as well.
President Roosevelt accepts the resignation of Secretary of State Root effective after his successor is qualified. Robert Bacon will assume the post as Secretary of State once he qualifies. J. O. O Loughlin named Assistant Secretary to serve in Bacon’s place. Root to become a U S Senator from New York.
Governor Pothier urged citizens to observe February 12 as a holiday with patriotic observances marking the centenary. The proclamation stops short of declaring Lincoln's birthday a legal state holiday.
Senator Tillman of South Carolina says he will keep after President Roosevelt, noting he must travel some and will likely grow tired before March 4. The remark suggests a strenuous political campaign phase ahead for Tillman.
In 1908 Secretary of Schoole Philip Brady issued employment certificates to 60 children aged 14 to 16. Birthplaces listed include Bristol, Azores Islands, Italy, Canada, and several U S locations. Of Bristol births, nine had Azores-born parents, three had Canadian parents, two Irish, two English, one German, and two U S born.
Bristol Post Office lists outward and inward mail hours under Earle and Prew express. Outward times include 7.50 and 11.20 a m and 8.00 and 5.20 p m for departures, while inward times show 8.00 and 12.00 a m and 3.00 and 7.00 p m. Sunday mail is noted.
Health advertisement asserts catarrh is a constitutional disease, not local. Hal's Catarrh Cure from F.J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is described as the internal remedy that reaches blood and mucous surfaces. A$1000$ reward is offered for a failure to cure, with circulars available to test its claims.
The Defiance Fair in Artillery Hall on State Street opened Saturday evening to good crowds hosted by Defiance Hose Company. Herreshoff Seattets Band and Bristol artillery played as locals enjoyed dancing and music each night. Tonight Arlington and Cranston Fire Companies are invited guests and tomorrow features the East Providence Naval Reserves, Bristol Naval Reserves and Narragansett Hose Company of Riverside.
Last evening named grocers attended the annual meeting and banquet of the Whole Island Grocers and Marketmen Association at the YMCA Hall in Providence. Attendees included Watts of the Bristol Public Market W Fred Fish Samuel McCaw Augustus Gravell and John Gilroy. Mrs OToole comments on her husband’s sentence of three years with possible 12 months off for good behavior.
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