Enforcement Gaps Highlighted In Prohibition And Other Laws
The editorial notes that many laws go unenforced and enforcement efforts can fail. It cites Prohibition in Rehoboth with a still and a fined operator who appears to be protected by higher interests. Tex Rickard’s Illinois ban on Dempsey-Carpentier footage is questioned after a $500 fine is paid and exhibits resume. It also criticizes persistent sidewalk spitting fines as ignored bluff, urging penalties be applied or laws repealed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prohibition
Rehoboth
Ian
Tex Rickard
Ilinois
Dempsey-Carpentier
Rickard
Iago
Babe Ruth to star on vaudeville stage for 3000 weekly
Babe Ruth the home run celebrity of fazeball has been engaged to appear on the vaudeville stage for weeks at 3000 a week. He will perform a comedy sketch and may sing. It is planned he will double in the first groove with an assistant near the footlights.
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Babe Ruth
Babe
Ruth
Phoenix newspaper marks 85th year with semi weekly debut
On November 1 1894 the Phoenix issued its first emi weekly edition and tied the date to the 27th anniversary of the semi weekly. The paper notes its long history since 1837 as a weekly, now in the 85th year and still in full operation.
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The
Phoenix
Cake and candy sale and whist in Bristol
The Bristol Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution hosted a cake and candy sale plus whist on Wednesday afternoon at the Belvedere Hotel. Attendees came from Warren, Barrington, and nearby towns. Fifteen whist tables awarded card prizes. committees included Mrs. Frank H. Buffinton, Mrs. Charles R. Blackmar Jr., and Mrs. A. J. Iverson.
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D. A. RB
Belvedere Hotel
Bristol
Daughters of the American Revolution
A. J. Beard
Frank H. Buffinton
Charles R.blackmar, Jr
A. J. Iverson
Francis Silva
James Danston
Owen Hughes
New York
Miss DeWolf
Miss Peck
Edward LeClerc
High Street
Weiner Glee Club of
Providence
Jeanette LeClerc
Gladys Mott
Edward
Albert LeClerc
Leon
George Lemaire
Viola LeClerc
Charles Chaplin
Raymond Mott
LeClerc
Leon Lemaire
Allen Mott
Warren
Pawtucket
Woonsocket
Fall River
Bristol Football Heads to Pawtucket for Hillcrest A C Battle
The Bristol football team will face Hillcrest A C in Pawtucket next Sunday at Lindsey Field. Players listed to meet at Place's Store Sunday at 1 pm include Garvin Langello Gladue Baker Coggeshall R Coyne Nerone Bergeron Guevremont Barry Alesio Bisbane Geisler Moore McGovern Newbold E Coyne.
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Bristol
Pawtucket
Hillcrest A. C
Lindsey Field
Place’s
Garvin
Langello
Gladue
Baker
Coggeshall
R. Coyne
Nerone
Bergeron
Guevremont
Barry
Alesio
Bisbane
Geisler
Moore
McGovern
Newbold
E. Coyne
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Promoted for Deafness Cure
An advertising claim states catarrhal deafness cannot be cured by local treatment and requires constitutional remedy. Hall's Catarrh Medicine is advertised as acting through the blood to reduce mucous inflammation in the Eustachian tube and restore normal hearing, with free circulars offered.
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Hall
Dracasts, Po Cheney & Co
Toedo
Ohio
Bristol Notes and Society News In November
Local items cover theater lighting at the Star Theatre, the Edmonds Co moving to a new office, and sale bargains at Suzman. Also reported are plans for a Bristol Girl Scouts food sale, Red Cross leadership elections, a whist club prize list, and social events at the Italian Hall and Le Clerc home with music, dancing, and Halloween guests.
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epHy- Staulion
Ethe Boothin
STAR
Max “Makowsky
Helen’ ‘Dixon
Jamies Dixon
Norwich
Conn
High Street
Bristol Girl Scouts
John Post Reynolds
Anna G Coggeshall
Rachel Russell
Providence
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Franklin Street
Price
Sam the Shoeman
G. A. Block
F. E. Suzman
Bristol Weelub
G. A. R. Hall
J. E Darling
Warren
Roy W. Bush
L. F. Davis
Edwin S. Godfrey
J. R. Talbot
William T. Dwyer
Star Theatre
Cut Price Sale Items From Local Market Ad
A local sale advertises discounted groceries and meats. Items include pastry flour 1.60 per bag, fancy mild cheese per pound, California plums 15c can, laundry soap seven bars 25c, grapefruit four for 25c, tomato soup four cans 25c, sweet potatoes eight pounds 25c, full cut round steak per pound 25c, porter house steak per pound 50c, boneless frank beef per pound 5c, fresh made sausage meat per pound 20c, flat rib corned beef per pound 10c.
Market Price List for Groceries and Meats
A historical price listing shows roast pork pork chops fresh chickens leg of lamb roast beef lamb stew veal fores leg veal pork sausages Quaker Oats cod fish salted mackerel fresh bond bread Stanley s borax soup mild cheese sour mixed pickles shoulder blade fresh ham bacon eggs uneeda biscuits peanut butter with various per unit prices and a final line of cents per item.
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Stanley
Uneeda
Real Estate Transfer Pellegrino Corvino to Furtado Couple
Pellegrino Corvino transfers land and building on the westerly side of Wood street in Barker Borden Plat to Filomena Furtado and wife. The deed conveys the property rights and structures as recorded.
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Pellegrino Corvino
Filomena Furtado
Wood Street
Barker Borden Plat
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Cintong Distagge Telephone
Bristol” ‘Post
Ae Ee Ree
Renee
Eeriday
Ea Editorial
Bristol Cerin
Br Hd
Toney
Eanes
Athens
Eas
Louisée
Frank Damrosch,Jr
Frances Lucas
Congress
Fred L. Dunbar
Naroditsky
Russia
Mdal
Enicatt
Nationa
Uae
J. F. Gilroy
Rockwell Hall
Colin T. Holm
A. A.edmonds Co. AU Hope
St. Bristol
BR. I
Germano's Store
Leeee
Charles
Germano
Wood St
Franklin St
State Street
P. Dorengh
St. Rita’s Catholic Girls
Martelly
Orchestra
Nema
Remieres
Warren B. Bake
Dewolf Farm
Poppasquash
Tel
Howe Street
Celent Place
Willow
Phgsnix Office
Hope St. Tel
Jacob Molasky
E. F. Sylvia
MT. Hope Avenue
Sherer der
Optometrist
Opticians
Westminster Street
Stowell
B. Sherman
Berkander
Open Econims
A. A. Edmonds, Co
State
Rasre Rex
Just
Charles J. Sartini
Railroad Avenue
Croade’ Street
Warren, R. I
A. French
Cornelius Harrington
Pure Food Store
California
Chase & Sanborn Ceylon
Swift
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