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Bristol Phoenix

Location

Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America

Date

Mar 23, 1878

Page

2

Phonograph promises future sound writing in New York

In New York on March 19 1878 a club demonstration explained the phonograph a crude yet promising device that records voice with an iron wheel tin foil and a pencil point The feature shows the potential for home medicine and distant communication but public life and insurance politics complicate progress with a Connecticut case showing investigations that cleared Continental Life of fraud and exposed carpet bag politics.

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Local Notices From town hall events and church services

Next week YMCA hosts entertainment on Wednesday. A gospel meeting with R. K. Kemington and others is set for Tuesday at Town Hall. Trinity Church Lent services are announced with early prayer, morning sermon, and Sunday school. St Michael the third Lent sermon by Rev Richards is Friday. Charity note urges genuine aid at home before seeking broader praise.

Bristol Magee St. Patrick’s Day E. Lord John G. Cole Sy Canvassera Shields Witten Ayaor YMCA Rm Chewers House Moon Town Hall R. K. Hkemington Fall River Trinity Church St. Michael’s Church C. A. L. Richards St. John's Church Providence Y. M. GQ Asylum Sto'clock Peter Gladding James Hoard, JR

Bible Depository Reopens With Low Prices in Bristol

The 1878 report details stock in the Depository to 140.86 with reductions and transfers to Y M C A Rooms. Bibles and Teachers Bibles were ordered from Bible House New York and Boston. sales, gifts, and expenses are itemized. The Depository will reopen at Miss Harris’s shop on Hope Street with purchases at cost and orders for Bags Bible and Eyre and Spottiswoode editions.

Manca M.A. Thompson Bible House New York Am. Tract Society Am. Bible Society Boston Town Hall Miss Thompson Bible Society Paul S Rider of Providence L:fe Committee On Everd Bristol Jas. P. Lane Bible Committee Miss Harris Sewing Machine Agency Hope Street Bagster

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