12 May 1896
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1896
Page
1
Readable text lists a Boston Store at 80 Hope Street in Bristol Rhode Island. No additional context or details accompany the address.
A local retailer advertises spring and summer ladies wear including brocaded mohair skirts silk shirt waists laundered shirt waists and lace yokes with prices from 37 to 4.75 for garments and 25 to 50 cents for ribbons hosiery gloves and dainty accessories. Gents furnishings feature the latest ties shirts collars and cuffs with spring glove shades.
Captain Nat Herreshoff dismisses Bristol reports that 30-footers will race in harbor as nonsense. Boats are being claimed by owners, numbered, and handed over on demand. Nerota and Minerva sales noted along with Volante launch and Loyal sale to Boston buyers.
A historical piece extols the United States Dental Association in Providence at Music Hall. It describes four dentistry specialties Operative dentistry crown and bridge oral surgery prosthetic dentistry. It highlights Neal vegetable vapor for painless extraction and coraloid dental plates as superior.
A dense catalog excerpt listing 19th century books and official records with authors such as Helen Dawes-Little, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Moses King, and William Henry Green. Includes religious, historical, and geologic works, with locations Boston Washington Providence and varied volumes, years around 1894 1895.
The School Committee voted to set the last Thursday in June as graduation day at the High School and approved $25 for graduation expenses. An amendment to article 6 on visitor duties will be acted on next meeting. A petition to extend school hours to 8:30 to 1:30 was deferred until May 25 as a special order. Several bills were passed and committee meetings will start at 8 o'clock instead of 7:30.
The Weeman's Relief of Babbitt Post plans a May Basket Party after its regular meeting tomorrow evening in G A B Hall. Ladies bring wall filled lunch baskets for auction to the high bidder and each purchaser earns the right to dine with the basket owner. Dancing will be featured and the event is expected to bring much pleasure to attendees.
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