Advertising rules and a scandal in local notices
Notice to advertisers sets strict copy deadlines of 4 PM on Mondays and Thursdays. The piece discusses a Memorial Day program criticized for saloon ads, exposing outside agents profiting from local donations. It urges caution to Bristol merchants and cites a Worcester incident of racial discrimination at Hotel Pleasant. The column ends promoting Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy, sold by W H Battlington.
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Xeo. H Peck
Babbitt Post
Moving Pictures Entertainment
Bristol
Chamberlain
W H Battiington
Sarah E. Johnston
Fox Hill
Charles H West
Nat. Herreshotf
Clark
W F Dnoffy
Stanhope
Newport
Warren
Staples Coal Co
Eva May Cole
F.mijimond
Philomena A. Morale
Ben Davis
Russett
T J Connery
State Street
J. Norman Anderson
Brown & Sharpe
Providence
New York
Ragsell
Church
Constitution Street
Harris
G. A. R. Hall
Matitee Bennettt
Babbitt Peat
Advertised Letters for Week Ending May 21
The list shows names awaiting pickup: Miss Mary B Walliams, J Etla Grey, Mr E A Porter, Mr Joseph Frates, Mr Agent, Publishers of City Directory, Antonio Tacheco Sobl. Likely post office notices indicating letters held for these individuals.
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Mary B Walliams
J Etla Grey
E. A Porter
Joseph Frates
City Directory
Antonio Tacheco
Bristol Post Office Hours and Local Notices
Bristol news item lists post office hours for arrival and closing times, Sunday schedule, express mail depart/arrive times, and general delivery windows. Includes land sales on Fox Hill, local guardianship cases, memorial day plans, automotive purchases, and civic announcements from Bristol.
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South Door
One Hundred Dollars Reward for Catarrh Cure Offer
An advertisement claims a $100 reward for a cure for catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall’s Family Pills. It lists West & Truax as Toledo wholesale druggists and names W. Walters, Marvin as druggists. It asserts testimonials are free and that the cure acts internally on blood and mucous surfaces.
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Jicheney
Con Fron
Toledo
Sr Cheney
West & Truax
O WaLpinae Iva & Marvin
Wwotasale
Oledo
O. Hall
Hall
Dainty Artistic Novel Happiness Defined
A concise statement defines happiness as a constant occupation with a desirable object and a continual sense of progress toward attainment, framing fulfillment as ongoing pursuit rather than final completion.
Benefit from Chamberlain Pain Balm for rheumatism
Mrs Anna Hagelgans of Tuckahoe New Jersey touts Chamberlain's Pain Balm as the best family liniment for rheumatism and lumbago claiming rapid relief for a sprained back and high recommendations from others, with sale by W H Baffington.
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Chamberlain
Anna Hagelgans
Tuckahoe
N. J
W. H. Baffington
Multiple classifieds advertise home services and sales
Widespread small ads seek a first class laundress with sunny yard and good wages. Also listings for exotic balm, waist and skirt repairs, a girl or middle aged woman for housework, a furnished eight room cottage for rent, home made bakery orders, a gas engine and boating sundries supplier, and several house lots for sale by Wardwell Lumber Co. Local addresses include Bristol Post Office, 15½ High Street, Hope Street, Union Street Providence, Weybosset Street, and 494 James Street.
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Fope Street
Bristol Post Office
Grocery Price Listing From An Old Advert
The page lists various pantry items and canned goods with old style prices. Items include Gold Medal Flour Mason Lard coffee beans apples evaporated milk corned beef roast beef ox tongue string beans peas and pineapple with prices ranging from fractions of a dollar to around two dollars per unit.
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Bristol Phoenix
Bristol County
Bradford St
R. L
Farrally
Ee Por
Phoenis
E. G. Easterbrook
F. Briggs
Ww. J. Fish & Co
D. G. Lebb
Nowa
Hope Street
High St
Bradford Street
Your
Phoenix
Latindress
Circus
Naval Reserves Company
Sir Lautell
Maas
Hotel Pleasant
Worcester
H. K Craft
Brown University
Dodge & Camfield
Butler Exchange
Exchange Place
R. I
Peirce
Thos.f.peirce & Son
Dorrance and Westminster Corner
Bristol and Prcinity
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Earley& Prew
W. W Perry
Rose Munro
Walter Munro
John Munro
Ethel Munro
Charles Munro
Edward M Tilley
Norfolk
Virginia
Loring Coggeshall
Trinity Church
Bristol High School
F. E Sazman
Collins Block
Bristol Ferry
G A. R. Hall
everGay
Excelsior Tennis Club
Martin Maher
Morrissey
U S. Coast Artillery
Fort Adams
Fall River
Athletics
Cranston Worsted Mills
Bush
Fall River Boys
Methodist Episcopal
Society
Rhode Island
St. Michaels
Jonathan Munro
Bristol Neck
J. Hasbrouck
New England Order of Protection
Hasbrouck
Chester W. Barrows
Harry P.cross
K. A. Hammill & Co
Naval Reserves
Merton A. Cheesman
F. M. Dimond
Church Street
Carroll D Wnight
U. S Commissioner of Labor
W. Lenoir Hood
Town Hall
Tobin Post
G A. R
Domenic Prato
Cranston Mill
Bay View Avenue
Dr. Glancy
Austerhottzs
T. J. Connery
Mt. Hope
Fall Rivers
Mapbchesters
New England League
Burnside Social Club
Col. Colt
E. Sazman
Herreshoff
Senator Morrell
Massachusetts and
Em. Sire Walter W Burnham
Henry A. Carpenter
Edwin G. Penniman
Herreshoff Dock
State Firemen'’s League
King Philip Engine Co
Everett West
Court ‘House
Byfield School
Wood
High Streets
Anderstrom
Dan Curtis
Olds
Hani
Sullevan
Hope
Bnstol
S A. Nightingale & CO
Weybosset Street
Lakat
ORION
Union Street
Franklin Street
Hope and
Bradford Streets
Malcolm Macnaught
Tames Street
Wood Street
Wardwell. Lumber CO
J. B. Minsher
Plymouth Rocks
Ct Farm
Main Road
P. A
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Bristol, I
Liberal Commission
New England
HH. Gurney & CO
Auburn, Me
Mrs. Williams
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Contractor & Builder
Hope ST
Town OF
D. Cruickshank
California
van Camp
Golden Brand
N. Y
Elgin
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C. A. Johnson
Amep Street
Burton Stregsy
Theodore CO
Gladding
Prop
Isaac B. Munro
Charles ST. Bristol R
John Shepard
Thames Street
C. W
Sparks’ Drug Store
Glebb
Hammond