Town must adopt permanent highway plan and better fire service
Editorial argues next Monday's town meeting will set a record budget due to growing town needs. It urges a system of permanent highway construction, cites current road deterioration, and proposes funding a new auto fire truck with hired staff and local shop support to lower insurance costs and improve efficiency.
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High Street
Wood Street
Franklin Street
Bradford Street
Hope Street
Bristol
Financial Town
LeBaron Colt
National India Rubber Company
Wal
New England Insurance Exchange
American steamship Algonquin shelled off English coast
The American steamship Algonquin flying the stars and stripes was shelled without warning Monday by a German submarine off the England coast. Shells hit the ship and spilled around the crew who evacuated into lifeboats.
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England
Undersea attack prompts voyage to Plymouth after bombing
The vessel was boarded and blown up by a party from an underseas boat. The captain and crew survived by rowing 27 hours in an open boat to Plymouth England. German raiders hauled down the American flag on arrival. The event is likened to a wartime peace akin to the Carrizal massacre era.
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Plymouth
England
Mexico
Carrizal
Nation faces nationwide railway strike over eight hour fight
The nation braces as eight hours of conflict between 250 railroads and 400,000 trainmen threatens a city night shift start tomorrow at 7 PM in New York with a gradual spread west. Freight trains only will be affected initially and a wartime halt could end the strike if war is declared.
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United States
New York City
China breaks with Germany while others sever ties
The speaker notes the oddity that China, one of the few nations without universal military service, acts in step with the United States by cutting diplomatic relations with Germany, highlighting the global shift in wartime policy.
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China
Germany
Adams Express Schedules from Bristol
Adams Express lists outward departures at 7 50 and 11 20 a m and 2 20 and 5 20 p m. Returns arrive at 8 00, 10 00 a m and 2 00, 4 00 and 7 00 p m.
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Bristol
Adams Express
Bristol Post Office Hours and Mail Schedule
The Bristol post office opens from 6.45 a.m. to 7.30 p.m. Money Order, Registry and Postal Bank departments run 8.00 a.m. to 6.00 p.m. Mail arrivals occur at 7.00, 8.00, 2.00, 4.00, 6.00, and 7.00 a.m. Mail closes at 7.30, 8.50, 11.50 a.m., 1.50, 5.50, and 7.15 p.m.
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Farrally Brothers
I F. Farrally
Bristol
Bristol Posy
Local notices and sales from a small town scene
Ads note footwear shopping and bargains near Adams Express, a Thames street property sale to Charles B Rockwell, a Burnside Social Club dance, Crown Orchestra music, butter price, and a school committee meeting. Town Council oath taking and organization planned, plus visitors Weeks Anthony and LeBaron family hosts. Terrence McCarty reported in hospital in comfortable condition.
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Pnerone
Adams Express
J L. Rubenstein
New York
Charles B Rockwell
Thames Street
Burnside Social Club
GAR_ Halli
Crown Orchestra
Mills Tea & Butter Corp
Colt Memorial High School
Getman Line
Andrew Weeks Anthony
LeBaron
Bo Coltino Washington
St Joseph's Hospital
Terrence McCarty
Local Notices and Social Roundup from Pleasant Street Area
Community snippet covers jewelry business owner Martin Felson visiting relatives at 15 Pleasant Street, Stoughton funeral attendance by the Clark family, an upcoming Kitchen Orchestra program, a March clearance shoe sale, and social club events. Also notes court commitment of Joseph Simis to the State Hospital for the Insane, militia address by Major John J. Richards, parish concerts, and Ladies' Aid Society elections at St Marys and State Street M E Church.
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Martin A. Felson
Lechnectady
State Street
M. E
Butler’s Shoe Store
John T. Robertson
Smith Street
Algernon Johnston
Phyllis R. Farrally
Harry S. Young
Fifth District Court
Joseph Simis
Metacom Avenue
O. R. Siegel
R. S. Church
State Hospital
Howard
Women's Queen
Boston
St. Mary's Parish
Major Richards
St Mary's Holy Name Society
Mills Tea & Butter Corp
Bristol Mothers’ Club
Colt Memorial High School
Crosby
Helen B Warren
New York
Dimond
McGilton
Ladies’ Aid Society
Moe
Epworth League
A C McGilton
John H
Butler’s Shoe Sale and Injury Incident on Hope Street
Shoes marked down from 2.50 to 3.50 now .00 attract buyers at Butler's Store. Mary Munro, 12, of 712 Hope St, slipped on Hope Street Wednesday, fracturing both bones in her right leg. She was aided by Frank Paull and later taken home by car. Dr. C J Hasbrouck treated the fractures. Mary had just recovered from German measles and returned to school.
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Butler's
Mary
Walter H. Munro
Hope Street
Robert W. Nelson
Frank Paull
St Patrick's Feast Impresses With School Talent
The Pastime Theatre hosted St Mary’s Sunday School St Patrick’s Feast last evening. Under Miss Nellie A Pierce of Pawtucket the program featured songs, dances, recitations, sketches, and a three-act photoplay Come Back to Erin, to a large audience and favorable notices.
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St. Mary's
Regelv
Nellie
Pierce Ot
Pawtucket
Stull
Irene Farley
Carrie
Carrie Lee
Lena Godin
Millie Nelson
Edna Peterson
Lottie Bell
Gladys Beavis Birdie Bell
Opal Dunn
Mamie Graham
Margaret Nerone Fannie Leslie
Frances H Horton
Nellie Spots
Catherine Bullock
Blackstar
Hazel Cote Goldenhair
Tilly
Mary M Collins
Mabel Cote Bessie Marian Vera Kate Louise Murphy
Lillie Rose Reilly
Dora Rose Gallagher
Minuet
Miss Nelle A Pierce
Elizabeth Cannon
Donations to Home at the Children’s Home
The Children’s Home received various gifts including clothing from Mrs. C. B. Rockwell Jr. and Mrs. W. H. Bullock, food items such as bread, sandwiches, cakes, canned goods, sugar, fruit, 2 dozen toothpaste, and services from seamstresses C. F. Dimond & Co and Mrs. Austin Levy. Other contributors include Dr. Church, Miss Margarite Spalding, John Mathewson, E. K. Reynolds, and C. A. Johnson in Central Falls.
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Children’s Home
C. F. Dimond & Co
C. B. Rockwell, Jr
W. H. Bullock
Dr. Church
Marguerite Spalding
Central Falls
John Mathewson
W. E. Howe
C. A. Johnson
Austin Levy
Bennett
M. Leavitt
Bosworth
E. K. Reynolds
Mrs Melton's Letter For Tired Mothers
A letter from Mrs Melton recounts her recovery after using Vinic a tonic touted to restore energy for worn out mothers and housekeepers. The writer, a five member family caregiver, credits improved health and vigor to the product promoted by Hope Drug Co Bristol.
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Jackson
Misa
Vinci
Drug. CO
Bristol
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Foster Hope Street
WDEX
David LD
Buffum & Son
Phoenix Office Railroad Company
Echo Farm
Susan E. Turner
Editorial
St. Patrick’s Day
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Ine
Kellogg’s
J. F. Gilroy
Nellie Vanderbilt
David T. Goggin
Hampden Meadows
Barrington, R. I
Warren
Grocers
David Buffum and Son
Prudence Island
Shamrocks
Hope Drug CO
Aetna Protection
B. W. Wall Bristol, R. J
Gorham’s Express
Young's Drug Store
Bradford Farm
Phoenix
Main Road
Waltham Watch
St Marys Church
Corner of Milk and
Buffield Street
MT Hope Ave
Alice Brown
Pristol R. T
William Seymour
C. Brand
Maine
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Lodge & Camfield Co
Hutler Exchange
Providence, RB. L
The
Pure Food—Store
Turner
New England
Marrow and Hubbard
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Columbia River
Claramont Brand
Libby
Jersey
Bartlett Pears
Royal Hawaiian
Sunkist
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Charles A. Johnson
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