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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1917
Page
3
The funeral was held Wednesday at 11 30 at the mortuary chapel of North Cemetery. Rev Anson B Howard of St Michael's Church conducted the services. Burial occurred in the soldiers lot at the North Cemetery.
Star Theatre presents Virginia Pearson in A Royal Romance five acts and Pearl White in The Fatal Ring two acts with Hank Mann in Chased Into Lovye two acts. Saturday features Charles Ray in A Millionaire Vagrant Helen Holmes in The Railroad Raiders Triangle comedy Pathe Weekly and more.
Private Charles Farley of Co. D 101st Engineers sends a letter via New York home from a French town where his unit is quartered with sympathetic refugees. He notes strict censorship, ongoing training, and future engineering work while wishing health and hoping to meet friends someday.
A letter from Corporal Alton H. Barrett of the Third Company C A at Fort Rodman lauds the Y M C A in New Bedford for providing entertainment supper and social space for soldiers and sailors. He notes swimming writing and smoking rooms plus friendly church-affiliated staff and calls the Y M C A a fine place to spend spare time with high personal conduct by attendees.
The Lord's Day League of New England leads a state wide campaign to preserve the Christian Sabbath inviting all to a Union Mass meeting at State Street Methodist Episcopal Church on Sunday evening November 18 featuring Rev. Martin D Kneeland of Boston. A. C. McGILTON urges pastors to join and assess their zeal amid this momentous issue for the church of God.
Miss L M Cooke of 20 Constitution Street seeks information about Ann Elizabeth Bosworth who left Bristol in 1840 for Mt Holyoke Seminary. She married Henry Wanning in 1844. Cooke asks for her whereabouts if living or the date and place of death when last heard, in New York City.
A large audience attended a successful Wednesday evening concert in the Pastane Theatre for St Marys Church. Prof Henry Donovan conducted the program featuring harpist Augustus St Angelo Arion Club soloist Miss Mary McCabe Miss Nellie Pierce dramatic reader Arthur Fontes and others with Bristol Providence orchestras and several vocal soloists.
The five act Metro wonderplay More Truth Than Poetry stars Mme. Petrova and opens at the Pastime Theatre tomorrow evening. Ashton Blair a failing lawyer gains fame with the help of his wife Vera then deserts her for another woman. The dramatic crisis drives the plot to a sharp climax in this absorbing screen drama.
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