Notable 1885 items from Bristol and national briefs
A compilation of short notices including deaths such as Arthur the author, Ambrose E Vaughan, and Moses B Dickenson. political events like the Dakota Woman Suffrage bill and Republican State Convention. scientific notes on dentistry, coal evaporation, and whale skeleton exhibits. and international updates on Russia in Asia and President Cleveland’s interview policy.
British balloons to watch enemy in Africa and gas refilling plants
The article notes British military ballooning to begin in Africa with three balloons for captive ascents to observe enemy movements. It mentions a gas factory at Sunkin and telephonic ground communication. It also reports a Massachusetts arrest in a highway robbery case tied to a Boston clothier firm and an alleged gang operation across New Haven, Bridgeport, and Providence.
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Africa
Sunkin
Springfield
Mass
George H. Bessey
Boston
Bessey
J. B. Barnaby & Co
Clothies
New Haven
Bridgeport
Providence
Washington in the 1885 inauguration week
Our Washington Letter reports on the grand 1885 inauguration, the crowded streets, and the new Cabinet’s salaries and scrutiny. It notes Cleveland’s speechless policy hints, Lamar as Interior head, and a city alive with office seekers and Civil Service Reform tensions.
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Washington
Viera
Cleveland
Justice Field
U. S. Supreme Court
Bayard
Council
Lamar
Interior Department
Standard Oil
Reagan
Texas
Treasury Department
Manning
White House
Miss Cleveland
Blaine
Vilas
Ue Slocum
Frang Leslie's Sunday Magazine April Issue Preview
Frang Leslie's Sunday Magazine for April highlights new chapters from Jarjeon's Love's Harvest Mrs Farmer's What She Made of Her Life and Pen's Perplesities. It features poems by Adelaide C Waldron and articles by A A E Taylor T D Witherspoon and reviews on sacred music and Bible history. Published by Mrs Frank Leslie Park Place New York at 25 cents a copy or $2.50 yearly postpaid.
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Frang Leslie
Apri
Jarjeon
Mrs. Farmer
Adelaide C. Waldron
A. A. E. Taylor
T. Ditherspoon
Thomas Powell
Spohr
Mendelsshon
Cherubini
Mercadante
Prime
New York Observer
Frank Leslie
Park Place
New York
Republican caucus and civic notices highlight town events tonight
A Republican caucus convenes in Town Hall this Saturday evening to elect delegates to the State Convention in Providence and to form a Town Committee. The local School Committee meets in Byfield School with no public business reported and adjourns to next Monday evening.
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Byfield
Democratic caucus to elect delegates at Town Hall
A Democratic caucus will be held in Town Hall on Wednesday evening next at 8 o'clock to elect delegates to the Democratic State Convention in Providence the following day and to handle any other business that may arise.
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Slade’ S Hall
Providence
Providence Opera House
Town Hall
Prezsne Court
Bristol
William P. Monro
Ruth A. M. Wardwell
Ehebo W. Monro
Sta
Bristol Phenix
Herbert F. Bennett
Bristol Phoenix
Captain Soule to Establish Bath Family Residence in Portland
Captain Soule master and part owner of the schooner Florence J. Allen of Bath Maine has rented a cottage on Burton Street and will move his family there on returning from Baltimore, where he sailed last Saturday.
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Jennie E Simmons
Baltimore
Soule
Florence J. Allen
Bath
Burton Street
Donations to Childrens Home Acknowledged for March 1835
The Board of Managers of the Children s Home acknowledge donations received for the month ending March 10 1835 including 22 pounds of turkey from Mr Frank Wardwell cake from Congregational Church cake from Captain Lawless dress and shoes from Mrs Brunsen a hat from Mrs Bache and other gifts.
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Turkey
Frank Wardwell
Congregational Church
Captain Lawless
Brunsen
Bache
St Marys Church young players stage Pyke O Callahan
A dramatic entertainment will be given in Town Hall next Tuesday evening by St Marys Church young people. The drama Pyke O Callahan and the farce That Rascal Pat will be produced by local talent. Master Willie Wood will perform and the Charleston Blues will parade. The house should be well filled.
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Town Hall
St. Mary's Church
Pyke O'Callahan
Rascal Pat
Willie Wood
Providence Furniture Co Opens Vast Carpet Display
Su Spring patterns of fashionable carpetings in immense variety just opened at the Providence Furniture Co great house furnishing establishment. Attention is invited to the Company's new advertisement in today's Pacanix. Reasons for success include big store big stock low prices liberal advertising and polite attention to patrons.
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Providence Furniture Co
Pacanix
Centenary of Catholic Congregational Society Observed
The Catholic Congregational Society of this town celebrated its one hundredth anniversary at the Memorial Chapel with President William H. Spooner in the chair. Rev. H. A. Stevens opened with prayer, and readings included the first annual meeting records from March 7, 1785. Abstracts from the 1784 charter and old Rules of Behavior were presented, with addresses by Rev. Bourne and others and letters from notable figures such as Rt. Rev. Mark A. DeW. Howe and John P. Reynolds. The event drew a large crowd and closed with the doxology and benediction.
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Catholic Congregational Society
Memorial Chapel
Thomas F. Usher
General Assembly
Chandler H. Coggeshall
Shearjashub Bourne
Barrington
John DeWolf
Henry Wight
Orrin L. Bosworth
William J. Miller
Bennett J. Munro
Samuel P. Colt
H. A. Stevens
Robert Bennett
Mark A. Dew. Howe
Central
Pennsylvania
John P. Reynolds
John H. Wardwell
New York City
George T. French
S. Bourne
Exchange of Woman's Work Society Planned in Bristol
The article urges support for a new Society for the Exchange of Woman's Work modeled after Providence, with a $1 annual membership. It covers a Mount Hope Circle meeting with readings and songs, and includes a lengthy compiled marriage register noting many names and dates in Bristol from 1680 to 1850.
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Society
Woman's Exchange
Providence
Bristol
Bristow, R. L
James N. Arnold
Warragansett
Persian poet Oman Kuayyan’s spring verse echoed here
The twelfth century Persian astronomer and poet urged embracing spring’s renewal. An imagined remark on climate suggests he might have adjusted warnings about winter garb to suit warmer seasons, implying cultural exchange of poetic lines.
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Oman Kuayyan
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