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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1899
Page
2
A fragmentary page lists various classified items and notices including Help Wanted boarders and teachers certificates. Names such as T B Stockwell and G C Crandall appear among brief market style entries indicating job notices and community postings.
The drowned captain from Quonochontaug was identified at Charles Town Beach four miles east of the life-saving station. He had left Providence May 1 to sail to Cuba in a nine foot boat, with prior notable ocean ventures including crossing the Atlantic in 1777 with his wife. A cigarette smoking expose notes high youths smoking and its moral impact, citing inmates at a reform school. Newport and state news items follow, including a note on a postponed election and a shipwreck tale with a life-saving rescue.
Local Bristol items cover post office outward and inward mails with schedules, May deaths, yacht compass work, fire company meetings, sales at Reed's, property transfers, and social notices. The piece notes club days at Bristol Golf Club, naval reserve work, and upcoming public events, plus brief business and personal notices and a tale of two old locomotives shipped to Providence for breaking up.
The annual meeting of the Bristol County Savings Bank Corporation will be held on Wednesday June 7 at 10am. Skinner Jr secretary.
An ad seeks a wide awake man or woman to represent the United States Repository Co in Bristol. Good wages easily made. Apply to Geo C. Crandall, agent for Rhode Island, Herald Building, Newport, RI.
Out of business sale offers men's and ladies clothing at half price. Men’s balbriggan underwear 26 cents, laundered shirts 35 cents, four ply collars five cents, Goodyear welt shoes regular three dollars now 150. First come, first served as stock must be cleared at once.
A church notice announces the sale of pew number 25 located in the middle aisle at St Michael Church. The item is offered for purchase, with details about availability and payment terms not specified in the readable text.
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