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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1908
Page
1
P Skinner Jr. Agent on Hope Street advertises coverage for dwellings households barns contents and farm property including stores business buildings schools houses churches and farm property with telephone 116-1.
Electric car service by the N H and Hartford Railroad goes into effect June 15 1908 on weekdays.
Newport and Providence Railway Company publishes its timetable in effect June 21 1908 detailing train schedules, routes, and operating times for the period. The card reflects a historical railroad timetable likely listing arrival and departure intervals and key station stops.
Rhode Island Suburban Railway timetable shows weekday service from Providence City Hall and Bristol with morning departures at 545 AM from Providence and 535 AM from Bristol. Trains run hourly to 445 PM from Providence and until 10 45 PM with late trains at 115 PM and 125 AM. Sunday service starts 745 AM from Providence and 715 AM from Bristol with half hourly runs in late morning and evening, plus 1115 PM and 1215 AM arrivals to Riverside.
Capt R N Turner presents a formal bill at the Bristol town council meeting—declined for presentation to taxpayers—seeking costs for signatures, street obstructions photos, records searches, and related labor. The document cites town actions, petitions, indictments and references Ex-Gov Utter and Gov Higgins in a long, contested dispute over obstructions on Bradford street and gambling concerns.
Turner argues he acted with the Cammunttes to open streets, presenting a resolution and aiding the committee, and received thanks though not hired or paid by the town. He says a worker’s service earns compensation if there is a voluntary bargain or public petition signed by a large majority of Bristol's property owners.
An office scene reveals a young man seeking a reply to a request about his suit to wed a daughter. Mr Prater questions multiple bills for hats dresses and shoes, while the suitor denies charges and declares his wish to marry. The matter ends with a veiled consent as shopping continues.
A New York Press item quotes a Lexington Avenue laundry owner offering a blunt take on “paper tiger” and notes on American manners. The excerpt compares cultural phrases with sharp, humorous analogies about pride, wealth, and missionary aid, reflecting early 20th century attitudes.
The article explains the waltz is not modern, detailing its Provençal origins brought to France for Henry II, Mary Queen of Scots introducing it to Scotland, and its spread across southern Germany and Austria by the late 1600s. It notes its first appearances in England and the United States in the early 1800s amid mixed poetical praise and denunciation.
A Columbus man famed for quail hunting lends his expert retriever to a friend who is only an amateur. After a morning of steady birds the dog returns home. The next day the owner and his guest pursue birds but miss, and the dog, disgusted, heads back to his home fields.
Seventeenth century Puritan ministers spoke for hours beyond the clock using an hour glass. One preacher joked about the sands running out during a sermon on drunkenness and urged for another glass. Sir Roger L’Estrange recalls a parish clerk who watched most parishioners depart before asking the preacher to close the door and slide the key under it.
The Philadelphia street pattern originated with surveyor general Thomas Holme, used for Pennsylvanian layout. The design is popularly known as Holme though most of his land and city lots left his family's possession long ago.
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item notes a woman seeks divorce after her husband buys her only hat in 25 years. It ponders whether any of the hat remains usable. The quip suggests marital strain over a single fashion purchase.
Georges Touchard argues in La Nouvelle Revue Paris that social duty dominates contemporary thought and ethics. He says it impregnates society and is the era’s most urgent aspiration, surpassing ironies amid current controversies.
In a brief exchange the benevolent lady questions a tramp about years of unemployment and the tramp attributes his lack of work to luck, calling it sheer good fortune.
A short quotation from Harper's Weekly contrasts male and female caution in speech and song, reflecting period attitudes on gender behavior within a concise, newspaper-card style item.
A friend seeking a public appointment in a small Scottish town hires a taxi to meet councilors Bisset Maitland and Gray. Each stop ends with the candidate discovering the driver is the official or that the official works in a nearby shop. He pays and leaves, choosing to rely on the council’s judgment.
A Boston Traveler note recalls 223 capital offenses once punishable by death and the global shift away from the death penalty. The piece cites historic harsh punishments for minor offenses from disguises to thefts and even writing threatening letters as evidence of past brutality.
A St. Louis railroad man recalls loading goods into freight cars in Mississippi using a deck of cards. He describes white supervisors issuing orders as black workers strap crates to cars, each car labeled with a playing card. He notes the workers’ familiarity with card symbols from games, and mentions dice and gambling as a popular pastime among Southern Black laborers.
In a London Express style quip villagers debate goats in a hostelry. A short tale unfolds of a man who bought a goat last Christmas and claims it ate almost anything before dying in spring. The gray whiskered man questions seasons and a punchy exchange follows about the alarm clock goat.
A brief exchange notes an urgent matter to be relayed to Jinks. The speaker expects to encounter Jinks that day due to an outstanding debt, implying financial tension and a time-sensitive issue. The quotation appears in the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
A terse exchange shows Mistress punishing Sarah Jane after she falls and breaks her neck. The line implies deductions from wages as punishment. Sydney Bulletin notes the scene as a stark, brutal vignette reflecting harsh labor discipline.
A playful exchange shows one asks for a five dollar loan. The other agrees, then laments his lack of will power, a lighthearted bit from Town Topics.
A London Opinion quip jokes that motoring is poetry even in a smashup, calling it blank verse. The witty aside contrasts driving passion with mishap to tease readers.
A Louisville Courier-Journal item presents two quoted enigmas about people unseen in novels and illustrations. It contrasts the novelist’s men with the illustrator’s girls, highlighting disparity in depictions.
A Toronto visitor to England recalls tipping everywhere from prominent hosts to baggage handlers and even the House of Commons staff. In Liverpool a placard in the waiting room read Please tip the basin, prompting his surprised reaction and joke about tipping etiquette.
In a public memo to London Answers Dr Grifin I laments that the profession receives little public memorials. He notes the rarity of commemorations for doctors and asks Mrs Golight ly about cemeteries, highlighting the lack of public honors for medical professionals.
A Washington Post note questions recklessness in gambling bets after men jump fences with a loaded gun and a mule’s heels are examined to settle a dispute.
A wry Chicago Tribune quip compares conversation to a phonograph. One side jokes that the other’s talk is tedious, while the other counters that a phonograph halts when its mechanism winds down, implying lively back and forth rather than dull repetition.
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