New Spring Wash Fabrics Arrive At Store Window
The inventory introduces Jaconet Dutchess in new patterns, Royale Plisse with delicate effects, and London Pique dress material with fast colors. The hosiery section highlights 20 dozen ladies fast black cotton hose, 30 dozen boys ribbed black hose, boot top fancy stockings at 25 cents, plus assorted underwear and 250 Jersey West items.
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Jaconet Dutchess
Royale Plessie
London
Uen
Jersey West
Gloves on Silk Taffeta and Kid Styles
A large stock of ladies and children's gloves in silk taffeta and the newest spring shades in kid. All kid gloves warranted.
Gents' Furnishings Offers Fashion Items and Shirts
A brief ad notes 12 dozen Gents New Sty 8 and 450 worth items with higher prices offered. It mentions a Negligee Shirt priced at 600 and promises plentiful good things in Donte-ae-usual style amid promotional language.
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Joo Gao
Lining Department Fabrics Listed for First Class Show
The notice catalogs fabrics including Fibre Chamois Hair Cloth Percaline Cambries Selicia Grass Cloth as items for a premier lining department, indicating a ready stock of materials.
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DuUspoonac
Junwrers
Monumental Designs Promoted for Orders
Sixty new and original Monumental Designs offered with orders left at D A Pieror’s Clothing, mentioning Weena sve Mrlgtal and a price of 3d.
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D. A. Pieror
Wenea
Bristol Pioneer Captain Recalls Long Ocean Career
81 year old Captain Albert Bennett recounts years aboard ships including the brig Virginia. He describes loading cargo in Providence for San Francisco in 1850, voyages via Brazil, Chile, Panama, and Valparaiso, and later involvement in building and commanding the barque W. H. Chandler. He notes cholera of 1851 and a Chilean incident with prisoners aboard. The piece weaves maritime memory with local context and oddities about taxes and social topics of the era.
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Virginia
Bristol
Joseph L. Gardner
Providence
San Francisco
Cal
St. Catherines
Brazil
Valpariso
Chili
Panama
Golden Gate
Patterson
New York
California
Havana
Sagua
la Grande
Cuba
Hogzhead
A Man's Thoughts on Work Fame and Conscience
Poem excerpt by George Cotterell from Good Words reflects on labor and daily bread, fame and prizes, and the superior value of an honest conscience. It contrasts the rewards of work with the enduring worth of integrity amid praise and blame.
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George Cotterell
Generosity That Helped Christy Minstrel Founder Rise
The Christy Minstrels head, E. P. Christy, helped Captain Folger with a $20 loan on a lake steamer voyage. Folger later buys a ship for $20,000, repays with installments, and sails to California aboard the Vandalia. Folger dies aboard a larger ship Christy later owned in Calcutta.
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Christy Minstrel
George
E. P. Christy
Christy
Folger
Buffalo
New York
attAyeprite
California
Calcutta
John Codman
New York Herald
Geneva watch trade prizes and English holders in 12 month contest
In Geneva watchmaking a competition allocates prize money to dealers in England holding makers watches for 12 months. Prizes start at 300 pounds with watches judged for precision and condition. Dealers must log daily time changes and avoid tampering while the winning maker’s watch bears no identifying marks beyond construction features.
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Geneva
England
Landan
The Magnificent Credit System Offers Home Furnishings
A speaker argues against thriftless home habits and promotes a credit system for furnishing homes. The text claims wage earners have good credit and invites readers to exchange comforts and necessities via credit, purchasing items like a complete dinner set and other furnishings. It emphasizes cost savings over time and urges systematic, attractive home improvements.
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Wardwell Lumber CO
Boston Storh
Hope Street
R. I
T. T. Allan
Geo. Salter, Jr
Providence, R. I
Prairie Avenue
T. P. Moriis
THE
Craig & Richards Granite CO
Quincy, Mass
WM. W.smith
Attleboro, Mass
Kentey
Dyce
American
Quincy
Clark’s Island
Oahill
Concord
Barre
Say of Fundy
Westerly
Hallowell
Fox Island
Black Diamond
Red Beach
Bristol Phoenix
Albert Bennett
Connecticut
Congress
Newport News
John W. Foster
Li Hung Chang
Japan
Phoenix
Coal & Wood
W. I. Peters & CO
Doz
Alan
ROYAL
W. F. Peters & CO
John M. Dean Company
Westminster St
H. Herbert Bosworth
Hope ST
RB. I
L. B. Bosworth
A. Greene
Real Bate Osoa
Hope Wiy Brisa
Isaac
Munro, Cor. High and
Bourn Sts
Bristol, R. I
We Williams, Brigtol Bf
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