Y M C A Pictorium to Feature Outdoor Films This Summer
The Y M C A reports successful outdoor motion picture nights with improved access to the Pictorium and a plan to move between venues for weather. The program includes The Old Thespian featuring talby and a two part drama Black Roderick with a Highland poacher plot and pursuit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Young Men's Christian Association
Darling's
Association
Rockwell Hall
YMC 4
Dr Delmont
Clary Dorney
Talby
Clary
Alumni Banquet for 1914 Class at Hotel Belvedere
The 1914 class of Colt Memorial High School plans a banquet and dance at the Hotel Belvedere on Monday evening June 28. All alumni are invited to attend with hope to spark an alumni association. See ad in another column for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colt Memorial High School
Hotel Belvedere
The Philosophy of Fishing for Wealth and Purpose
The narrator argues that pursuit of wealth alone is not defeat but a misdirected aim. True failure comes from hauling abundance as the end, while those with a real purpose persevere despite setbacks. He recounts an optimistic great uncle who died happy yet bankrupt, illustrating misplaced goals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clary
Delmont
Black Roderick
Possible To Be Too Good
A column discusses faithfulness, gender roles, and moral balance between men and women. It cites Lilith and Eve to argue women’s faults and virtues influence men, urging fair treatment and mutual respect in marriage and society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lilith
Eve
Heaven
Hell
Southern Woman's Magazine
Our Ideal of Perfection in Modern Body Culture
The article argues that modern dogma elevates physical fitness as the sole measure of man while the soul’s guidance fades. It criticizes college focus on muscular power, citing Apollo imagery and diminishing Christian ethics as the face of virtue grows dim in youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christ
Atlantic
Slaughter of Very Young Heifers Threatens Beef Supply
The Philadelphia Telegraph argues that laws protect fawns and seals while calves are slaughtered for veal, depleting beef stocks. It claims experts link youth heifer slaughter to shrinking meat and dairy resources, urging audible protest and policy review.
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Philadelphia Telegraph
Pastor Simon Stephanoff promotes salvation disks for hotels and cafes
The Moscow merchant Pastor Simon Stephanoff who left business life for evangelism has begun selling phonograph disks that present the essentials of salvation in plain terms. The inexpensive records are readily bought and used in hotels private homes and cafes to reach people otherwise inaccessible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Simon Stephanoff
Moscow
A Word for Mothers Promises Strength and Health
An advertisement urges mothers to seek Scott's Vision to overcome fatigue nerves and languor. It claims the product strengthens blood tissues and nerves, builds strength, and has no alcohol, attributed to Scott & Bowne Bloomfield N J.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scott
Scott’s
Scott & Bowne
Bloomfeld
N. J
Plans for the Fourth Parade and Sports Events
Capt Willis C Metcalf to be Chief Marshal with John T Robertson as Adjutant Maus S Wheelwright as Chief of Staff and Edward G Metcalf as Chief Aide. Sports near the common July 5 include a 5 mile run 880 yard run 100 yard dash tug of war relay for boy scouts once around the common for under 16s with 25 cent registration refundable day of race. Battery A Rhode Island National Guard will set up camp on Main road near the old stone crusher site arriving Sunday evening July 5 with horses men field pieces for parade spectacle.
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Willis C. Metcalf
John T. Robertson
Maus S. Wheelwright
Edward G. Metcalf
Bristol Naval Reserves
Charles W. Herrmann
Fred Wilbur
Chafee
Battery A
Rhode Island National Guard
Steamer Rochester Sued Over Typhoid Outbreak Damages
The steamer Rochester of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Co was libelled in Buffalo NY to recover 501000 for 54 Rhode Islanders connected to the Perry Centennial visit of 1913. Plaintiffs allege tainted food water and poor sanitation caused ptomaine poisoning and typhoid including a 15000 claim by Octave LeClair of the Rhode Island Naval Battalion.
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Rochester
The
Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Company
United States District Court
Western District of New York
Buffalo
Rhode Islanders
Rhode Island
Put-in-Bay
Octave LeClair
Rhode Island Naval Battalion
Wide World Magazine thrills with wartime Alpine tales and daring rescues
The July issue offers war-time wanderings in the Italian Alps and a gripping rescue from a caved-in well by Victor Pitt-Kethley. Also features a mid‑air fight thriller and other true adventure stories that keep readers on edge.
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Wide World
Cook
Italian Alps
Italy
Victor Pitt-Kethley
Clarke Brown Jr Hosts First Anniversary Tea Party
Mr and Mrs Clarke Brown Jr entertain 20 friends on Constitution Street to celebrate their first wedding anniversary. Dr Teller arranged a surprise car ride for Mr Brown while guests gathered. Red rose decorations, five tables of bridge, prizes to John T Robertson and Mrs Harry Young, then refreshments.
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Clarke Brown, Jr
Constitution Street
Brown
Teller
John T Robertson
Harry . Young
First Baptist Church Prayer Meeting and Evening Services
Prayer meeting this evening at 7 30 with topic Steadfastness. Choir rehearsal at 8 45. Sunday morning service at 10 30 with sermon by Irving T. Gumb titled Pressing Onward. Sunday School at 11 45 Men’s Forum at 12 15 Young People’s meeting at 6 30 led by Miss Clarissa Reynolds Evening service at 7 30 with Life’s Great Challenge to Men sermon. Public invited.
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Irving T. Gumb
Young Peoples Meeting
Clarissa Reynolds
St Alban's Lodge
G. A
A. M
Probate notices from Bristol court 1915 1916
Bristol probate notices announce final accounts and petitions for distribution in estates of Geraldine O Simmons John C Potter and Mary A Hargreaves. Hearings set for June and July 1915 with notices published weekly in the Bristol Phenix. Court clerk is John M. Coggeshall.
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Bristol
Geraldine O. Simmons
William T.o'donnell
Geraldine O.simmons
Bristol Phenix
John M. Coggeshall
John C. Potter
John C Potter
Bristol Phoenix
John M. M. Coggeshall
Mary A Hargreaves
Geraldine Darby
Mary A. Hargreaves
Sain Bristol
Asee M. Coggeshall
Guardian Appoints Susan E Turner for Trotter Wards Bristol
Susan E Turner announces appointment by the Bristol Probate Court as guardian of the persons and estates of Andrew Ms Trotter and Helen H Trotter. Bond filed as required. All claims must be filed with the Bristol Court Clerk within six months from first advertisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Andrew Ms. Trotter
Helen H. Trotter
Susan E. Turner
Administrator appointed for John McCarty estate in Bristol
Bristol Rhode Island June 7 1915 announces Hugh D McCarty appointed administrator of the estate of John McCarty deceased with bond filed. heirs and creditors must file claims in the probate clerk's office within six months from first advertisement. 151 Potter Ave Providence RI.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
R. I
John McCarty
Hugh D. McCarty
Potter Ave
Providence
R.I
Coming Events Schedule for Town Activities
June 22 piano recital by Miss Salisbury pupils at G A R Hall. June 24 Newport Rocky Point excursion on Sagamore steamer by Burnside Social Club. June 28 Alumni banquet and dance at Hotel Belvedere. June 29 whist at 620 Hope Street for Bristol Woman's Exchange. July 13 Sunday School excursion to Rocky Point on Sagamore steamer.
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G. A. R. Hall
State Street
MFE. Church
Rocky Point
Sagamare
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Universal
Jtocra Pure
Brownell & Field CO
Providence, R. I
Bermuda
York State
Woman’s Magazine
Wide World Magazine
First Baptist Church
Town OF
Lcenses
T.M. Morris & Co
Thames Street
Morris Brothers
T. M. Morris & Co
Memorial Building
Siset
Vreminter
Puce of Polpatering
Tom Clerk
Guardian's
Trilby
Ford
Gulf Refining Co
Veedol
Polarine
Robinson
Colgate’s
T. B. Huestis
Moorhouse
Ardmore
Penn
Martha Briggs
Henry Wilson Moorhouse
Charles B. Rockwell
O’brien
Edmund O'Brien
Kays—Ashton
A. C. McGilton
Harry Albert Kays
Rachel Viola Ashton
Connery—Brown
Francis E. Duffy
Charles Moses Connery
Margaret Alice Brown
Serbst
Mary Serbst
Constitution St
John Temple Drury
William W. Franklin & Co
Wood St
Thomas Christodal
Thames and Oliver Streets
E Brown, Jr
Trudell Bros
Geo. H. Peck
B. W. Wall
Bristol, BR. L
G.W. Simmons
E. L'F. Swell
G. M. Wilbur
Liscomb & Coggeshall
Charles H. Liscomb
Walter H. Coggeshall
Burton St
Constitution
Isaac B. Munro
R. J
Dorchester Mutual Fire Ns Co
Boston
Atson & CO
Ee 206
Industrial Trust Co
R. L
A. W. Orgelman
Weaver & Matheson
E. K. Reynolds
High Street
Hydraulion Hall
Cor
Pearse Ave
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