Keep the Streets Clean Warren Letter to Editor
A Warren reader laments dirty streets from paper litter, cites Hope street gutters, urges storekeepers and households to burn or remove street debris, and asks the Phoenix editor to push pride in local street appearance. The writer notes Warren’s streets are cleaner but faults local areas remain unsightly.
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the Phoenix
Vo Oames
Catherine Street
Hope Street
State
Bradford
Warren
Fire Company Meetings Pass July Parade Vote
Hydraulion Engine and Hose Company No 1 and King Philip Steam Fire Engine No 1 held monthly meetings. Both voted to join the Fourth of July parade. Committees were named for grave-decorating on Memorial Sunday and for flowers on deceased members. A new member application was received and a Providence overhauled steam engine was tested with satisfactory results.
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Hydraulion Engine and Hose Company
John T. Ashton
John Burns
Benjamin Dorstrom
Carl C. Witherell
Allister MacDougall
Combination Ladder Company of
Providence
Star Theater Show Promises Fresh Act by Jones and Gillam
Jones and Gillam, a top singing and dancing duo, headline the Star Theater with a new act and songs tonight. The feature picture is a strong biography. Matinee prizes include coupons for a girl and boy, with a $5 gold prize and a coupon clock giveaway on June 6. All weekly coupons remain valid for the drawings.
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Jones
Gillam
Jones and Gillam Onight
Twins Born in Different Months Named May and June
Twin daughters born to Mr and Mrs Albert Sutcliffe of Union Street appeared in different months with May born at the end of May and June at the start of June. The June girl died yesterday morning and the May girl remains alive but fragile.
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Albert Sutcliffe
Union Street
May
June
Born in town with multiple births reported
Notices record several births: a May daughter named May to Mr and Mrs Albert Suteliffe, a daughter Jane to Mr and Mrs Albert Sutcliffe, and a daughter Jane to Mr and Mrs Thomas Brown, in this town.
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Suteliffe
May
Albert Suteliffe
Jane
Albert Sutcliffe
Brown
Thomas Brown
Infant Sutcliffe Dies in Sutcliffe-Inn
June Sutcliffe infant daughter of Mr and Mrs Albert Sutcliffe died at Sutcliffe-Inn on June 2.
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Sutcliffe
Albert Sutcliffe
Foreign Geography Confounds School Lesson
A New York teacher faced a stubborn Austrian pupil who insisted Cincinnati, on the Ohio, is the capital of Ohio. Despite maps and texts, the girl stood by her home geography. The dispute persisted as recitations continued, with the student repeating Cincinnati as the capital.
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New York
Columbus
Ohio
Cincinnati
Cincinnaati
Ohio River
A Helping Hand in a Frantic Moment
A dialogue depicts a hurried mistress rushing to catch a steamer. The maid reveals she set the clock back thirty minutes to create extra time, acknowledging the mistress’s frantic preparations and the looming departure. The scene centers on urgency and practical mischief.
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Mistress
Mary
Maid
Puck
Would Be Taken Care Of. A Courier-Journal Dialogue Scene
A Louisville Courier Journal excerpt shows a young woman with a square jaw assuring a suitor she and her mother can arrange the necessary improvements. The exchange centers on worthiness and resolve as they discuss future steps.
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Louisville Courier-Journal
Medium Exchange Sparks Spirit World Joke
A brief exchange imagines a priestly and worldly tie in the afterlife. A father asks his son who connects people with spirits, and the son quips that the liaison is a bartender. The joke hinges on a pun about serving people and spirits.
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Papa
Have you lived in this town very long Miss Sear
A short, witty exchange follows as Miss Sear retorts she cannot be regarded as old enough to have lived in the town long, though she asserts familiarity with local life.
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Miss Sear
His Obligations Towe Preaks a call
A fragment from the Cleveland Leader notes a characterized exchange about duties and debts. The dialogue hints at unfinished obligations and a sense of personal debt driving actions expressed in terse lines.
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Cleveland
Racing Pigeons and Their Remarkable Homing Instinct
A Collier's vignette describes racing pigeons as the fleetest of creatures with speeds of a mile and a half per minute, flying 700 miles between sunrise and sunset and even a thousand miles to the home loft. It notes a 1904 record of five days two hours fifteen minutes, and recounts the birds’ flight habits, dangers, and lifelong homing drive, including a World War era tale of a captured pigeon released after ten years returning home.
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Collier's
Paris
Paving Value of Asphalt Brought to Notice
Accidental discovery of bituminous rock in Val de Travers led to asphalt road paving. By 1854 Rue Bergere in Paris used compressed asphalt on concrete, then others adopted in London and beyond. Early macadam experiments showed wheels crushed rock forming better road surfaces.
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Mises
Val de Travers
Canton Neufchatel
Switzerland
Rue Bergere
Paris
London
Threadneedle Street
Cheapside
Exchange
Die Die Die Bertrand Maltravers Ends in Mischief
A theatre prompt book twist sees the hero poised to die as a revolver misfires. The villain clubs him, and the victim collapses. A late-arriving policeman poser delivers the comic line Shot He has been shot through the back causing puzzled laughter in London Scraps.
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Bertrand
London
A Peculiarity of Dreams
A London Chronicle discussion at a club lunch notes that dreamers see themselves as underdogs in danger, never performing heroic acts. The piece questions whether anyone can be a heroic dream figure outside a dozen sleeping cowards.
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London Chronicle
Disappointment over college student Uncle Jed’s tale
In a Chicago Tribune anecdote Uncle Jed explains his son is not yet costing him money. He is working through college and winning class honors, with a professorship promised. The neighbor wonders why the big husky son is not playing center.
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Jed
Scott
Chicago Tribune
Making a Life. Man and his living identity
A quotation from Success Magazine contrasts wealth and quality of life, noting that many men earn well yet lead poor lives while others enjoy fuller lives with modest means. It reflects on the balance between financial success and personal fulfillment.
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Success Magazine
The Shaky Ladder of Fame
A pithy reflection on the peril of chasing fame as many spend their prime years climbing reputations only to watch the ladder tilt and topple before the final rung is reached.
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Chicago Record-Herald
Jacobs Bros World Acrobats Shine At Bristol Opera House
The Jacobs Brothers wowed Bristol at the Opera House with a sensational bounding table act and dazzling performances. Fred Bates drew strong praise in his long supporting role, and tonight and tomorrow promise further stunts as Jacobs and Demara plan to challenge the world record with a large crowd likely to attend.
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Bristol
Opera
Jacobs * Bros
Bates
Ninog
Onerw House
Ong
Siwanee
Dreast
Darkey
J: Jacobs
Martine
Bros
Jacobs
Dem
Déemara
Windmill swap ends with single turbine remaining
Visitor asks about the windmill from last year and Native explains there was only enough wind for one, so the extra unit was removed.
Mortgagee sale of two Bristol Rhode Island lots
Public auction to settle two mortgage deeds held by Thomas Gayton with dates 1876 and 1898. The properties cover northeasterly portions of the Ministerial lot, bounded by the Bristol Warren main road and Asylum Lane, in Bristol Rhode Island, with quit rent per society and Catholic Congregational Society. Attorney Frank H. Hammill announces intent to bid.
Mortgagee's Sale of Bristol Property on June 26 1910
Frank H. Hammill attorney notes a mortgagee's sale of a Bristol Rhode Island parcel. The property, once owned by Thomas Gayton and Jennie S. Gayton, is described as a Main Road west of Bristol Warren, bounded by Bristol Asylum Road on the north and land of the heirs of William Hall on the west. The sale is set for 12:30 PM Saturday June 26 1910, under a mortgage deed dated August 30 1876 and recorded in Book 36 Page 437, after breach of mortgage conditions. Jennie S. Gayton intends to bid.
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Saturda
A. D
Thomas Gayton
Bristol
Rhode Island
Zebedee Pauli
Warren
Gayton
Asylum
D. C. Society
Zebedee Paull
Catholic Congregational Society
Frank H. Hammill
Julian S. Gayton
Bristol Asylum
William Hall
Sohray
Thomas Lindsey
Julia
Otis Munro
Guardians Seek Sale of Minor Easterbrooks Real Estate
In Bristol 1910 Probate Court petitions Clara M. McCaw guardian for Louis C. and Susan Easterbrooks minors seeks authorization to sell their undivided two ninths interest in a Wood Street Bay View Avenue lot. The sale funds would pay debts support and better invest proceeds. Notice ordered for fourteen days in Bristol Phoenix starting June 3 1910.
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Bristol
Louis C. Easterbrooks
Susan Easterbrooks
Clara M. McCaw
Wood Street
Bay View Avenue
Parker Borden
James S. Mason
George W. Easterbrooks
Euclid C.nichols
Mary E. Nichols
Lown
Bristol Phoenix
John M. Coggeshall
Marie E. Lavander
Michael Lavander
Rene Lavander
O.glock
Joan M. Coggeshalil
Bristol Steamship Schedule Change 1910
The notice lists travel times and services for routes between Bristol and Sagamore with the Sagamore sailing Sundays on the hour except 8 a.m. Bristol departures occur at other listed times, indicating an adjusted railroad and steamship linkage for that period.
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Bristol
Sagamore
Probate actions in Bristol 1910 court notices
Probate Court in Bristol May 1910 orders hearings on the estate of Royal Dawley and on guardianship for Susan E Gilbeney, with notices to be published in the Bristol Phoenix for two weeks. The final account for Mary M Shepard is set for June and notice to be published similarly.
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Robate
Bristol
Royal Dawley
Brstol
Peleg Ai Dawley
Colchester
Conn
Charles H. Dawley
Ba Ee Ae
Said
Bristol Phoenix
Mary
Susan E. Gilbeney
Marya A. Gilheney
Mary “A. Gilheney
Susan
Gilheney
Joig
John M.coggeshall
John M. Coggeshall
Wes
Bistol
Emima R. Chesebrough
Elizabeth M. Colt
Emma R. Chesebrough
Sal Ee
Dune
Aonsteer
John M. Congrabally
Searf
Charles A. Waldron
Frederic L. Waldron
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Star Theater
Opera House
Mortgagep
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N. H
Trtford
Sotsser
Bristol Ar
Ly. Prov
Ar. Bristo
Newport
Providence Railway Company
Herryboat
R.I
Burnside Memorial
fCow Council
John
M. Coggeshall
Bris
Samuel Gladding
William P. Gladding
Muel
William P.gisddleg
Publi
Mars. Williams
A.W. Orgelmar
State Street
Simmons Undertakers and Funeral Directors
Emma E
Carey
Elephone
Gonatitution Street
Au Calis
M. Charlello
Hope
Bristol, K.I
E. B. Munro
Woonsocket
John Temple Drury
Insurance
Drury Block
Worthy
MASON
Nowaniin Ave
John D. Martelly
Thames St
Eristol Fish
Ugs
John Shepard Pronle
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