Y M C A Notes and Local Activity Bristol News
The Bristol Y M C A notes a 5 15 p m business men exhibition in the gymnasium with a supper at Rockwell Hall and a possible speech by Ex Gov Utter. A senior baseball team may form for the Y M C A league. interested parties should contact the physical director. Bowling and indoor tests progress with leaders Fish and Collins. The Phi Alpha Pi held its third anniversary with a social. Bible classes set for tomorrow night and Thursday afternoon.
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Rockwell Hall
Business Men of
Bristol
Utter
Saturn
Neptune
Phi Alpha Pi
Providence
Daughter’s piano stunt costs a proud parent much
A mother praises her daughter’s piano stunt and notes it cost a lot of money. A visitor comments with interest, and they discuss whether a neighbor helped. The exchange hints at pride and financial strain from the child’s music pursuits.
Bones and Jones share a summer evening dialogue
In a clipped exchange Bones recalls a long evening as Jones probes. Bones notes it was the close of a summer day. The mood hints at a reflective, perhaps literary moment between two characters.
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Bones
Jones
Dining dispute ends with coat switch mystery
Hardup recalls a restaurant visit where a man swapped his overcoat and left the other in its place. Well off suggests the proprietor isn’t to blame, but Hardop voices a plan to confront the other man. The snippet implies a humorous or puzzling social exchange.
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Hardup
Hardop
Allen's Foot-Ease advertised for fit and blister prevention
An old advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder to prevent tightness and blistering, claim it cures swelling and sweating, available at druggists and shoe stores with attribution to E. Address, A. S. Olmsted, Roy, N.
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Allen
A. S. Olmsted
Roy
Owls Sweep Independents Amid Tight Three Straight Wins
Last Friday evening the Owls earned three straight wins over the Independents as Captain Cromer led with a high total of 809 points across the trio. The scores remain not fully legible but indicate a decisive Owls victory.
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Ohips
Cromer
Owls
Independents
Pin brings luck as mishaps trail Simmons
Simmons spots a pin and recalls the old adage about luck. He bends to pick it up, loses his hat, glasses break, suspenders snap, and a shirt buttonhole tears while his fake sheath nearly comes apart, but he retrieves the pin intact.
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Simmons
Gold and Silver Assaying Process Described in Detail
The article explains a complete method for assaying gold and silver. It describes melting the sample in a furnace, quenching in cold water to granulate, boiling in sulphuric acid to dissolve silver and precipitate gold, and transferring materials through copper plates and lead vessels. Copper remains blue vitriol after reactions, and the metals are pressed into cakes, remelted, refined, and cast into ingots for markets.
Making a Dictionary and its Long Labors
The account contrasts Johnson and Webster as they pursued dictionary work. Johnson planned three years with six assistants but took nine and paid his helpers from a £7,500 reward. Webster toiled twenty four years before his dictionary appeared, famed for his precise definitions and late but notable achievement, while noting the difficulty of tracing short Saxon words and pedigreed terms.
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Johnson
Webster
Luffed and Lost Versus Never Luffing at All
A youthful sailor, attempting a landing with a head wind, blurts a malapropos line about luffing. Quotation from Youth's Companion notes the wit in spontaneous verbal missteps and the humor found in such misfires.
Bristol Business Men’s Association Banquet Links 62 Attendees
Friday March 3 and Friday March 10, 1899 report a Bristol banquet at the O’ Wolf Inn drawing a representative crowd with sixty two seated for supper. The Byfield Rubber Company received orders for 50,000 arctics and gum shoes plus existing orders for ten nis. Recent days also yielded new customer orders and samples totaling 5,000 pairs for this season’s goods.
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Bristol Business Men’s Association
O’ Wolf Inn
Byfield Rubber Company
Bristol 1899 town election uses Australian ballot system
Bristol voters cast 1167 ballots from 1499 on the lists in a heated race. Spooner won assessor of taxes by 87, Barbour re elected to the School Committee by 63, with detailed results for moderators clerks councilmen judges and town officers, reflecting a vigorous political contest.
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Bristol
Charles HE. Spooner
James O. Manchester
Charles A. Barbour
Robert N. Turner
Spooner
Barbour
William J. Bradford
Cit
Tosyn
Herbert F. Bennett
Edward L. Watson
Charles H. Church
Mr. Watson
Ezrason
James T. Robertson
Mr. Mason
William H. Thayer
Theodore O. Gladding
Mr. Thayer
John R. Wilson
Mr. Wilson
James W. Franklin
William H. Thompson
Mr. Franklin
John P. Reynolds
George H. Peck
Howard S. Babbitt
Philip Brady
Chandler H. Coggeshall
Mr. Barbour
Mr. Turner
Stephen W. Church
William Williams
Charles H. Spooner
Mr. Spooner
Lyman B. Bosworth
Church
Ezra Mason
James M Gooding
Mason
Janes T. Robertson
Warren allocates 35000 for town building project
The Phenix issue notes Warren has appropriated 35000 dollars for a new town building. A light March storm drops snow in New Hampshire as the Newport steamer is dismantled in Fall River. The Congregational Church chandelier, a gift from Joseph M Wardwell, is lit for the first time. Rev Amos Robinson of Raynham Mass will become pastor of the First Baptist Church here, starting in May.
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Warren
New Hampshire
Newport
Fall River
Joseph M. Wardwell
Congregational
Amos Robinson
Raynham
Mass
First Baptist Church
Sons of Veterans Meet Prepares for April Visit
Lieut. Herbert F. Bennett Camp No. 8 of the Sons of Veterans held its regular meeting and arranged a reception for Department Commander Col. Sibley on Friday April 2 with Babbitt Post G A R and the Woman's Relief Corps invited. Ezra Dixon Jr presented camp regalia from his father a Civil War veteran. A camp entertainment is planned for G A Hall on April 21.
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Herbert F. Bennett
Sons of Veterans
Col. Sibley
Babbitt Post
Helief Corps
Ezra Dixon, Jr
Ezra Dixon
G.A. Hall
District Court Guilty Plea In Larceny Case
Carmello Flomaso pleaded guilty to larceny of a gold watch fiute overcoat and $135 value from Luigi Romaldo. Judge Bosworth sentenced him to six months in Providence County Jail and costs. Flomaso, a boarder, stole items while the Romados were away and was apprehended as he boarded a New York boat in Fall River. Henry Crook pleaded not guilty to drunkenness on Wood street. case dismissed on payment of costs.
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Carmello Flomaso
Luigi Romaldo
Bosworth
Providence County
Flomaso
New York
Fall River
Henry Crook
Wood Street
Appetite and digestion advice promotes Rexall tablets
The Bristol advert urges Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets for stomach derangements and dyspepsia. It claims relief by neutralizing gastric juices and improving digestion, offering a money back guarantee after a 16 day 4 250 box and larger sizes at 450 and 890. The Hope Drug Co. promotes the product.
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Bristol
Hope Drug Co
Hope St
Ivory facts and old trade in tusk weight and value
Mrs. H. R. Childs in McClures Magazine notes ivory economics and usage. Billiard balls use cow ivory from tusks 12 to 30 pounds while bull tusks exceed 40 pounds. Shipments once averaged seventy pounds ten years ago, now around fifty pounds. Historic tusks weighed 224 and 239 pounds, bought in Zanzibar in 1900 for 1000 pounds. London and Antwerp dominate raw ivory trade. recent prime prices reach 3.50 per pound. Cutch ivory, 30 to 40 pounds, is used for Indian bangles and vanity items in a luxuriously pampered market.
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H. R. Childs
McClure’s
Zanzibar
New York
London
Antwerp
DeWitt’s Carbolizea Salve Sold for Piles at Buffington Shop
W H Buffington sells DeWitt’s Carbolizea Witch Hazel Salve praised for chapped hands cuts burns bruises and especially piles. The ad links good digestion with rosy skin and red blood and promotes Kodol for Dyspepsia sold by Buffington.
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DeWitt
W. H. Buffington
W. H. Baffington
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Tomach
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Peter J. Lannon
House Nager
William H. Smt
Peter Fornier
Parker
Eve
Ita
Portland
Maine
Mvere Druc.co
O. Burgess
E. Mathewson
J. Edmonds
Ospr
O. Cromer
FEF
Hodgdon
Je Walsh
J. Mathewson
P. Gasper
W. Higgins
H.w.church
J. Potter
G. Clark
R. Bell
O. Hill
J. Pierce
J. Robinson
J. Oran
Wilburn
Qo; Miller
Capt
G. Balfour
Saillant
R. W. Nelson
M. Nelse
W. Cromer
L H. Callan
M. Dimond
Snow
H. W. Church
H. Schafft
J. B. Newman
Munroe
P. Kenney
O. E. Westry
W. Def. Brown
L. Beals
Harold Newman
H. Danbar
W. McCaw
U. Osterberg
Jack Davidson
P. R. Kenney Jr
J. Best
A.davidson
W. A. Snow
J. Kinder
L. Gorham
T. Byrnes
A. KR. Newman
Pp. Brady Ce
W. Brownell
Philo Hay Spec, Co
Newark
N. J
Co. W. Sparks
Connecticut
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
GOLD
Phenix
Herman Canfiel
Thayer
John Usher
Thompson
the Phenix
Corn Products Refining Company
Ily
District Court
Chas
E “Moore
Westminster Steel
Garwood Gasteam
Cull & Williams CO
Washington Street
R. I
Free, J
Willis S. Pino
Washington St
Cor
Eddy St
Providence, R
Stiles Optical”Co
Aborn Street
Rhode Island
N. O. Stiles
Villers Co
Pawtucket Mutual Fire Insurance Company
Malin Street
Pawtucket
P. Skinner, Jr
Hope Street
Dorchester Mutual Fire Ins. Co
Boston
E.l.watson & CO
Industrial Trust Co
R.I
WM. Hodgkinson
Union St
R. F
John Temple Drury
Drury
Ohdewe Lebee
Collins Street
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