Public Debt and Disasters Across States and Nations
The figures show Britain’s public debt at 3 732 110 820 dollars. An earthquake was felt in Nelsonville Ohio on Sunday evening. New Haven court bans boycotting as illegal. Fairview Pennsylvania business district burned. losses around 100 000 dollars. Boston post office revenue exceeds 8 million dollars yearly. Spain’s floating debt stands at 65 million pesetas, down 11 million since April. Mammoth pipe works planned at Chattanooga employing over 600. Pulverized roasted coffee touted as a superior antiseptic by Dr Oppler. In twenty two states there are 308 498 more women than men. Dakota has 29 415 more men than women. Greece’s warlike posture costs Turkey about 20 million. Mississippi saw forty eight hours of continuous rainfall causing crop and highway damage.
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States
the Union
Dakota
Victor Hugo
Paris
New York
New York Broadway
Broadway
Arile
Fifth Avenue
Isles of
Courcele
Bristol
Bleeker Street
14Th Street
Bridget
Omnibus Observations and Parisian Peculiarities
A Bourne essay in omnibus life contrasts Paris and New York transit, noting ventilation woes, cheese odors, dogs, and crowd chatter. It recalls encounters with counterfeits, fare disputes, seat rights, and a brie incident, while touching on temperance, advertising, patents, and Darwin in a broad miscellany from 1886.
Memorial Day Countdown and Local Church Services
Three weeks remain until Memorial Day as Rev William S Chace of Woonsocket preaches at St Michaels Church. Elder E M Culloch of Lynn Mass will preach at Advent Chapel Sunday afternoon and evening. Mr and Mrs George Fitts mark their fiftieth wedding anniversary at 52 Franklin Street next Monday evening. Edward Sherman named Keeper of Bristol Ferry Lighthouse moved his family there and assumed duties Monday. Five town deaths occurred in April: ages ranged from 71 years 6 months 10 days to under 5 years with three males and two females.
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Paris
Hart
Plomb
Dill
France
New York
Italy
Cody
E. M’culloch
Lynn
Mass
Advent Chapel
George Fitts
Franklin Street
Edward Sherman
Bristol Ferry
H. S. Inman
S. F. Smith
D. D
George A. Arnold
Bristol
R. I
Commissioners of Highways
N. N. Cote
Posbate Court
John Turner
William R. Taylor
Bristol Phenix
Herbert F. Bennett
William Henderson
Hezekiah W. Church
Neece
Anid
Walley Street
Margaret McKay
Theodore P Bogert
Elizabeth Henderson
Ward
Bristool Pohgnix
Meaw
Citizens asked to report overlooked graves before Decoration Day
Citizens are requested to notify Mr. H. F. Bennett, Town Clerk, before May 30th of graves of soldiers or sailors that may have been overlooked on Decoration Day. The cemeteries have been examined, but some grave may not have been located, and it would be a deep regret if any were neglected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hood
Smanr
H. F. Bennett
New Bristol pastor preaches and church history recalled
The Rev Albert P Palmer led his first sermon at State Street M E Church with Amos 3 3 as text Flowers adorned the pulpit and a welcome sign marked the occasion Nearby town notices describe lectures by Captain Clarion H Kimball at Town Hall and a 70th anniversary celebration of Bristow's Baptist Sunday School recounting school founders, milestones, and fundraising drives to reduce renovation debt
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Albert P. Palmer
State Street M. E
Clarion H. Kimball
First Baptist Church
Manchester
N. H
Town Hall
Babbitt Post
Gettysburg
First Baptist
Bristow
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Bristol Phaniz
Great Britain
Nelsonville
Ohio
City Court of
New Haven
Conn
Fairview
Penn
Boston Post Office
Chattanooga
Oppler
Strasburg
Greece
Turkey
Mississippi
Geo. T. Bourne
Music Hall
Providence
Catholic Total Abstinence Union
Diocese of
Thomas J. Conaty
Worcester
Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America
England
Knights of Temperance
Knights of Labor
S. R. Niles
Europe
Atlantic
R Niles
Boston Globe
United States Patent Office
Rhode Island
Franklin H. Hough
F Street
N. W
Washington
D. C
W. Ho Ernst
Jersey City
N. J
Brown & Sharpe Manufacturing Company
H. L Kranz
W. M. Merchant
Pawtucket
Burgess
C Rohn
S. van Stone
G Hancock
United States
Cuantzes Danwin
Grant Allen
J. Fitzgerald
Pearl Street
Price
Darwin
London
Thames
Ayer
Local Affairs
William S. Chace
Woonsocket
St. Michael's Church
Henry Crocker
Barnabus Bates
John Gardner
Gilbert Richmond
Wm. P. Monro
Sarah Walker
Congregational School
Hope and
Wardwell Streets
Episcopal School
Griswold
Episcopal Church
James Manning Winchell
Barnabas Bates
I.N. Hobert
Father Graves
J. J. Peck
H. G. Hubbard
H. M. Jones
N. B. Cooke
M. D
Nelson B. Tanner
H. C. Marchant
A. J. Graves
Walter D. Briggs
R. D. Arnold
Geo. C. Pierce
John Lake
O. H. Spooner
O. OC. Barrows
L. L. Anders
Geo. U. Arnold
Chandler Hy
Court of Probate
Eliza B
Emma French
Nathan B. Fenner
Jane P. Fenner
H. F Reed
E. S. Babbitt
William H. Bell
H. H Bosworth
Charles L. Ellis
Elisha M. Wardwell
Mary N Wardwell
Martha Clayton
Samuel M. Lindsey
Frederic A. Easterbrooks
Charles Evans
F. A. Easterbrooks
Bridget Campbell
Bernard Campbell
Bond
Margaret Campbell
Mary Campbell
Michael McKeone
John J. Christie
John L Shepard
Henry J Campbell
William Willams
Jennie G. Haskins Bond
Ezra Mason
Loring Coggeshall
A. Winsor Gooding
Eliza Ferris
Jerome B. Greene
Orrin L. Bosworth
Allen M. Coggeshall
Allen M. Coggesh
Benjamin Franklin
E. L. Bogert
Harry Bogert
Abby H. Waldron
Ambrose Waldron
Samuel B. Hardy
Gilbert T. Norris
Hannah C. Otterson
James Meiggs
Jerome B. Greena
E al
O. L. Bosworth
James Pyne
Groters
Tur
Messia
Herreshoff
Obhristie
Thompson
William Manchester
Seabury Manchester
C. H. Manchester
William O. Manchester
Henry Goff
John M. Coggeshall
Parmenas Skinner
Usher
Fire Department
North Cemetery
Cccseseeses Ceee Eee
E. L Freeman & Co
Globe Gas Light Co
Cscseuee
John B Taylor
Cess
James F. Goff
Messrs Herreshoff
Christie
Aessessee
Benjamin Tilley
Samuel D Wardwell
Aos
Messrs Herreshoff, Thompson
High
Olver Streets
R. D. Ballock
Israel Duss
Tilford Road
Bessett D. Bull
B. B Martin
William Williams
John S Newman
Charles A Waldron
Joseph N. Morris
Guiles S. Congdon
George W. Diman
James Phelps
Mary Lawton
Fall River
Titus
Barrington
Sarah Titus
James D. Titus
Nathan H
Martha Miller
Chace
Riverside
Verrano Vv
Pawtuxet
Phoenix Marine Journal
Port of
B.I
BR. Borden, Mason
F. River
Eveline, Young
Row Park
R. Borden
Mason
H. M. Hoyt
Rich
Banjo
Slattery
Fort Johnson
Wardwell Lumber Co
R Borden
Teazer
Collings
Portsmouth
John Somes
Robbing
Minnie
Barker
George B. Vreeland
Vancliff
Eachera
P. W. & Bristol Railroad
Carbondale
Post
Bondout
National Rubber Co
Urbana
Tyler
Port Johnson
Herreshoff Manuf G Co
Adresa
A. B.C
PH@NIX
Providence, Warren & Bristol Railroad
Warren
Newport
Market Square
India Point
Boston
Providence R. K
Bristol Mys Waterman Stone
Uardian
William
Tenderson
M&3w
N. Wardwell
Bobate
Harry H. Bogert
Harry H Bogert
Blasaid Ward
Bristol Peenix
Jane
A. U
Ph.nix
Abert F. Bennett
Herbert &. Bennett
Farrington
Hamburg
Butterick
Lewando
Hope Street
B. H.gladding & CO
Westminster Street
Exchange Place
B.H. Gladding & Co
Westminster St
K. I
Court of Common Pleas
Bristol County
Court House
Tillinghast
Daniel B. Luther
Sigmund Forth and Wife
Alfred W. Gooding
Sor Samuel Norris, Jr
Attorney General’s Office
State Streets
Joseph Wardwell
C.B. Munro
Bradford Streets
J. C. Gallup
Tolp.&t
An-C. A. Greene
Notary Public
Providence Furniture Company
Providence Furniture Co
Esquire
Great House Furnishers
Broad
Mathewson St
Providence, R. 1
New Bedford
Taunton
Lonsdale
Attleboro
Pascong
Centredale
Georgiaville
River Point
Coventry
Greenwich
Westerly
Narragansett Pier
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