Bristol Phenix Briefs and Local Notices
The Bristol Phenix notes a Bristol post office receiving around 1 000 applications for office. Augusta Maine resident Joseph W Patterson dies. A Cottage City fire harms a freight house on Highland wharf. A Modoc express passenger suffers a head injury from broken glass after a stone is thrown near Palmer Massachusetts. New Hampshire House votes expedient not to legislate on intoxicants. Julia McCue confronts foster mother in court over illegitimate child seizure, declaring she will reclaim the child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cottage City
Mass
Highland Wharf
Modoc Express
Palmer
Julia McCue
Boston
Worcester pastor accepts Park Street Church call in Boston
Rev. Isaac J. Lansing, once a student at the B. I. Normal School here and a popular Worcester pastor, has accepted a call to the Park Street Church in Boston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Issac J. Lansing
B. I. Normal School
Worcester
Mass
Old Park Street
Boston
Report cites poor design at Strafford asylum after deadly fire
The State Board of Health told the New Hampshire Legislature that the Strafford County insane asylum was poorly constructed and badly run, following a devastating fire with heavy loss of life. An excursion by 1200 students from the London Polytechnic Institutes will visit the Chicago Exposition and stop at the Chautauqua Assembly. Providence astronomer Frank E. Seagrave reports a sunspot group on the eastern limb visible to the naked eye from his private observatory Monday morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
PGF
State Board of Health
New Hampshire
Strafford County Insane Asylum
Frank E. Seagrave
Providence
Harper's Black and White Series Adds Three New Volumes
The collection gains Giles Corey Yeoman a play by Mary E Wilkins The Japanese Bride by Naomi Tamura and Whittier Notes of his Life and of his Friendships by Annie Fields all richly illustrated and presented with suitable artwork.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Black and White
Giles Corey
Yeoman
Mary E. Wilkins
Naomi Tamura
Japan
Whittier
Annie Fields
New Cruiser Arrives at Hampton Roads for Naval Review
The U S 8. San Francisco, built in California and fitted at Mare Island Navy Yard under Lieut. Commander B F Tilley, has arrived at Hampton Roads from the Pacific. Flagship of the Pacific Station, she will participate in the Grand Naval Review at Hampton Roads and New York next month, marking her first Atlantic voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
San Francisco
Hampton Reads
Pacific Coast
Cape Horm
Hampton Roads
New York
Atlantic
California
Mare Yaland Navy Yard
B. F. Tilley
Old Colony Railroad Plans $7 Million Upgrade
The Old Colony Railroad proposes nearly seven million dollars in improvements to its system. Officials say consolidation with the New York New Haven Hartford will not affect the project and work will be pushed forward with energy to handle increased traffic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Old Colony
New York
New Haven & Hartford
Providence Ortra House Airs May Be Prized Cast
March 20 24 program features Joseph Murphy Kerry Gow Shaun Khen and Stuart Robson with She Stoops to Conquer and The Henrietta a noted American play. Iriah representation praised and celebrated as part of the season lineup with vivid stage imagery noted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence Ortra House
Joseph Murphy
Kerry Gow
Shaun Khen
Iriah
Stuart Robson
Historian Hermann von Holst to Lead Chautauqua History Course
Prof. Hermann von Holst, Heidelberg graduate and former Strassburg Freiburg professor, will head the history department at Chautauqua Summer College next season. He will lecture six weeks on the French Revolution, drawing praise for clear English, sound judgment, vivid description, and sharp irony. The course is expected to draw many students and instructors to Chautauqua in 1893.
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von Holst
Caarrauqua
Hermann FE. von Holst
Heidelberg
Strassburg
Freiburg
United States
University of Chicago
Chautauqua Summer College
Chautauqua
The Genus Tramp in New York Deliberations
A New York club debated tramp nuisance with statistics challenging public sentiment. An authority claimed four-fifths of tramps are in fair physical condition and over half are skilled laborers, while the mass are intelligent. The view emerged that tramps are lazy and dishonest, needing confinement and forced labor to protect the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Quaker City Planned in Oregon by Friends Syndicate
A Quaker city is planned in Oregon by a Friends syndicate called the Friends' Quaker company with investors from across the country. It holds option on 2200 acres in Marion county, in a fertile area with water power. The plan includes a cooperative community with no saloons, a railroad line, a church, a school, and planting 1000 acres in fruit trees.
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Oregon
Friends
Nebraska
Indiana
Friends’ Quaker Company
Marion County
Free Mail Bid Sparks Local Contract Row
A man offered to carry Boonsborough to Keedysville mail daily gratis but lost the contract to another bidder who proposed one cent annually. The same item notes a New York widower who married a widow, seeks divorce after dispute over his and her children. It also reports women owning over three thousand acres of Washington land with several more waiters to prove up patents.
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Boonsborough
Keedysville
Alleghany County
New York
State of
Washington
Judea
Jesus
New England
America
Judes
Arabia
Browning
Tenneyson
Ani
Hood
J. B. Barnaby Co. Cor
Dorrance and Westminster Sts
Providence
R. I
Orthodox Presbyterian Friend Reports Ingersoll Books Arrived Safe Not Sound
A New Yorker sent Col. Ingersoll's works to a western friend and telegrammed hope for safe arrival. Days later the friend, described as an orthodox Presbyterian, sent back a telegram stating the books arrived safe but not sound.
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West
Col. Ingersoll
Early fruits ripen near Seven Points on desert fringe
Horticulturists report that oranges reached market by November 20 last year with figs pears apricots and small fruits and vegetables maturing unusually early near the old Seven Points railroad station in the Colorado desert. An international conference on serial navigation is proposed in connection with world congress auxiliary congresses, echoing Paris 1889 exposition events.
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Colorado Desert
Seven Points
Paris
Linen Month Opens Sale as Stores Refill Stock
January, known as the linen month, sees linen counters covered with new goods and prudent housewives examining stores to replenish stock from the abundant market.
Lurid Imagery in Novel Sparks Debate on Character Dress
A recent novel prompts discourse over its flamboyant description of a character, noting the figure as gaudy as a red man with the blues and suggesting the author leans on lurid imagery to define style.
A Woman's Letter to Mrs Pinkham Praises Vegetable Compound
A testimonial from Mrs L Travis of Thurlow Pennsylvania credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing severe womb related symptoms including bearing down backache dizziness and insomnia She says she is now well and uses the medicine and pills when not feeling right.
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Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Town Meeting approves road, school and fire funds in Bristol
Bristol town meeting votes detailed appropriations led by ten thousand for highways and crushed stone. Other items include public schools four teen thousand, fire departments twelve hundred, memorial day and town common adornment funds, plus a 300 for Bristol Home Destitute Children. Also approves unpaid bills and a five year note to renewal short term debt.
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Merina
William H. Spooner
O. L. Bosworth
Esseserss
Rogers Free Library
Recere
Ceeceseeeseesens
Bristol Home Destitute Children
Hydraulion Engine Co
Dreadnaught Hose Co
Cccs
BR. I
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The
Bristol Phenix
Post Ofice
Bristol
Post Office Department
Joseph W. Patterson
Augusta
New Hampshire House of Representatives
Gao
W. Turner
Galway
Lydia
Portas Afep
Pinkham
Local Affairs
St. Benedict's Day
Bay View Avenue
Spencer Rounds
William Williams
W. T. C. Wardwell
Walter
Bristol Cornet
Isid Band
Board of Health
East Burying Ground
Mount Hope Avenue
Wood Street
Supreme Court
Bristol County
John 8
Tas
Qoonom
James Hoard
John H. Morrissey
George H. Peck
John 8. Ingraham
John D. Dimond
Benjamin T. Munro
Thomas Dwyer
John H. Morrissery
John S. Ingraham
James F. Goff
Joseph Gifford
Desreine
Boston College of Oratory
J C Edgerly
Boylston Street
Woodbury'a
Malta
Isa Carrington Cabell
Margaret &. Sangster
W. H. Hyde
Clare Bunce
Ayer
Mary A. Jackson
Salem
Eretheir
Gap' Bee
Shade Roller Company
Thames Btreef
Bristol Light Infantry
Co. Co 2d
RB. I. M
P. McGovern
Young Men's Temperance and Athletic Club
Artillery
State Street
Alpine Orchestra of
John A.C. Hamill & Co
Bristol Neck
Paonix
Scrofula
Eva Beran
Bradford, Mass
Eva
Frank Beraw
Central Avenue
Bradford
Colby Bros
Bng
DR. Houghs
Lothar
Oldsair
CEE Landing Psssenters
Olumbia
Hove
Columbia
Fair Grounds
Fair Entrance
WM Hl. Church
Niagara Falls
Churcii
Weybosset Street
Grand Ave
New Haven
Woodward Enterprise Manf'g. Co
Robert Woodward
Treas
Calender, Cor
Sabin Street
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