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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1896
Page
2
In a front page focus the Bristol newspaper advocates a modern Y M C A as essential for local youth. It argues the association should be a wholesome moral center offering safe recreation and growth, urging young men to support and join.
Judge Bosworth presided as Lohor Richardson pleaded guilty to vagrancy and no visible means of support receiving six months at the House of Correction. Patrick Garrity faced drunkenness charge with a $1 fine. Cunningham vs Ellwood trial on hotel ejectment featured conflicting witness accounts with a reserved verdict in one week.
A well attended Epworth League meeting discussed hosting the district convention next September and tasked the secretary to estimate delegate numbers. Frank Wardwell delivered an original London object description, while Dickens in London extracts were read by Mr. John Pollock. Letters from the American Girl Abroad were read by Miss Sadie Paul and Clinton T Sherm. A quartet including Miss Anna Pierse, Mrs. McCarty, Mr Jobo R Poljock and Mr. Wo Liscomb performed three selections.
A Bristol Y M C A conference urges a fully equipped center with gym, baths and reading rooms to draw young men from saloons. Key speakers stress finances, building debt caution, and the role of women through a volunteer auxiliary in supporting the association’s mission to guide youths toward Christian manhood.
Local notices from Bristol include mail times, sales of wheels and bicycles with prices, imports of wall paper and paper hangings, and calls to church, lodge, and club meetings. Mentions of Cranston Worsted Mills work, Keating and Envoy bicycles, and a soil fill project at Church Street near the sea wall.
Advertisements urge buyers to clear winter footwear for spring stock and claim the Columbia wheel as top. Local news notes Arthur McNay resigning a confectionery post to return to Bristol. Navy armory upgrades and a small storage building planned by the wharf. In schools, the third grade was dismissed and a field trip to Burnside Memorial Hall occurred.
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