New York Yacht Club Partially Accepts Swedish Challenge
The New York Yacht Club accepts part of the Royal Swedish Yacht Club challenge for the America's Cup but race start is expected not before 1909. Sir Thomas Lipton, previously rejected, may seek terms for a cup match next year. The challenger is believed to be a schooner about 100 feet waterline, echoing early prize conditions.
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New York Yacht Club
Royal Swedish Yacht Club
Sir Thomas Lipton
Advertised Letters at Bristol List
Advertised letters for the stook ona iy Sept 28 at Bristol list R J Relty James Owen Jack Hart William Harris Electric Vehicle Co Dramatic Editor Advertiser Mrs G Parker Mrs Saran Postrea Mrs Nap Lepage Mrs Lillie Hall Miss Lucy Johnson Miss M Lera Miss L A Markham Miss M A Peterson
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Bristol
R. J. Relty
James Owen
Jack Hart
William Harris
Electric Vehicle Co
Advertiser
G. Parker
Saran Postrea
Nap. Lepage
Lillie Hall
Lucy Johnson
M. Lera
L. A. Markham
M. A. Peterson
Married in Newport as Sweet and Middleton unite
Edward Dale Sweet of Staten Island and Miss Mabel Wilson Middleton of Newport were married in Newport on September 26 by Rev. Charles F. Beattie. The ceremony linked two local families with ties to this town and Staten Island.
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Sweet— Middleton
Newport
Charles F. Beattie
Edward Dale Sweet
Staten Island
Mabel Wilson Middleton
Grants and funerals in town notices and a medical remedy
In town notices, Annie Sylvia aged 35 and Eleanor B. Grant aged 64 with funeral details at 2 30 pm from 89 Constitution street are listed for Sept 27 and Sept 30. Anson L Barney of North Swansea is noted in his 79th year. Also advertised is a collapsible tube product called Map Zan Pile Remedy priced at 50 cents sold by UO Sparks, claiming relief from piles.
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Sylvia
Annie Sylvia
Barney
Swansea
Anson L. Barney
UO. W
Bristol Post Office Mails Arrive and Close Times
Local Bristol notes list mail arrival and closing times for the post office and general delivery. Sunday hours and stamp sales are specified, with express service schedules from Earle & Prew for outward and inward mail.
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Bristol Post Office
South Door
Bristol
Earle & Prew
Bristol notices and town happenings drift through fall
A dense Bristol Rhode Island page lists monthly company meetings, school events, dances, ship hulls hauled for winter, tax collection totals, club gatherings, church notices, and local business ads. It notes Crop Harvest Festival, the King Philip band engine, and Odd Fellows hall events, plus police probes into park theft and a sailboat sighting.
Beware of Ointments for Catarrh Containing Mercury
Mercury based catarrh remedies can destroy smell and disrupt the system when absorbed. Use only prescriptions from reputable physicians. Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney & Co Toledo contains no mercury and is taken internally. Ensure you get the genuine Toledo product. testimonials free, sold by druggists 76c. Also Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
F. J. Cheney & Co
Chief To Be Elected Tonight
Town Council meets this evening to decide the next Chief of Police. Capt. Thomas Dwyer has petitions from supporters but only if three councilmen appear certain to vote for him. Capt. Morrissey’s name may be raised without a petition. Both candidates could receive addresses from supporters.
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Thomas Dwyer
Capt. Dwyer
Capt
Morrissey
Girl Gives Lover Mitten Rather Than Pair in Jest
A playful gesture leaves the pair of mittens as the claimed gift when the young woman chooses a solitary mitten for her courting partner, suggesting a joke about not wanting a full pair.
World as Comedy or Tragedy Reflects Feeling
A reflective thought on how perception shifts with emotion. The line suggests humor for the detached observer and sorrow for the sensitive, implying that experience colors interpretation of events.
Life Takes a Color From the Dawns
A reflective essay notes that life gains its color and quality not from the days themselves but from each new dawn, suggesting renewal and perception shift with morning light. The piece emphasizes fresh starts and the quiet power of sunrise to redefine daily experience.
Upcoming local events and health ad reach readers
Coming events list October gatherings in G A R Hall Odd Fellows Bristol Opera House and Trinity Church. Oct 2 Whist Oct 4 DeRue Bros Minstrels Oct 7 Whist Oct 9 Danos Oct 10 Harvest Home Festival. Also an ad touts Rings Little Liver Pills price 25 cents by O W Sparks promising relief from headache and biliousness with normal liver function.
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Reba Rebecca Lodge
Odd Fellows Hall
Elmer Mathhewson
Hope Drug Company
New England
Bristol Female Charitable Society
E.S. Babbitt
Class of 08
G. A. Ri. Hall
Reba Lodene
DeRue Bros
Minstrels
Bristol Opera House
G .A. R. Hall
Babbitt Woman’s Relief Corps
Danos
G. A. R. Hall
Bunn
John T. Doyle
Trinity Chharoh
O. W.sparka
Republican State Convention Call and Delegate Rules 1907
A Rhode Island Republican Central Committee notice from Providence September 24 1907 outlines a state convention to nominate state officers and elect the state central committee, with primary meetings to choose delegates by October 8 1907 and deadlines for nominations to the General Assembly by October 15 1907.
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Rapeeiees State Central Committee
Providence
Infantry Hall
State Central Committee
R. Lved
General Assembly
Nathan M. Wright
R. I
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Bristol Phoenix
Bristol County
Ofice
Hope Street
Farrally Brothers Proprietors
J. F. Farrally
Your
Phoenix
Phoenix News
A. Brockway
Brockton Fair
Westminster School
J. L. Herreshoff
Dodge & Camfield
Exchange Place
Providence, RK
Peirce
Thos.f.peirce & Son
Dorrance and Westminster Corner
Bristol and Vicinity
Sunday Mails
Bristol High School
G. A. R.hall
New York
F. M. Dimond
Joseph M. Levere
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Maine
Rhody
Charles W. Tillinghast
Jamestown
McNaught's
Walter S. Hackney
Pardee
Ferry
A. P.nerone
Bento M. Lima
Charles Drummer
St. John
N. B
Harnish
Brooklin
Mass
Fred Eaton
Ohbard Street
St .John
George M. Pynchon
Walker’s Cove
Schuyler Kirk
Phyllis R. Farrally
Frank Hughes
Rennie Sawyer
Charles H. Bickford
Brookton Fair
Sinking Fund Commission
King Philip Band
Brockton
New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Franklin
Irene Gertrude Olive
South Main Street
Warren
R. L
David E. Carter
W. B. Wilson
Rhode Island Sunday School Association
First Baptist Church
Mr. Wilson
Hydraulion Engine and Hose Co
Valley
John H. Bailey, Jr
J.F. Galley
Bristol Public Schools
Annie Scanlon
Byfield
Reynolds
International Institute of Instruction
Montreal
Bristols
She
Daotroite
Philadelphias
Boston
Chicago
Mt. Hope Park
John Coughlin
Fall River
Edward D. Kunz
Bristol News
King Philip Steam Fire Engine Co
Brookton
Narragansetts
Epworth League
State Street M
A. W. Place
Mattie Paull
Fred Blaisdell
Westminster School of Languages and Music
Herreshoff
Jara
George Diman
Clara L.diman
Brooklyn
N. Y
Earle and Prew’s Express
F. H. Hammill
Wellington
Theodore A. Bell
Order of Eagles
DeRue Ideal Minstrels
Conley Bro
Roswell Colt
Concord
St. Andrews
Mr. Colt
St. John’s School
N. H
St. Andrew’s School
Tain Mercury
Conley Bros
Westminster School of
Butler Exchange
Julian L. Herreshoff
Harold J. Gross
Bickford
Burton St
Hair
Fickets
Bickford’s
Phoenix One
Bec
Brock
K.K. H. Dewolf
Barton Street
Fox Hill
Poo Oly Eugene Leclair
Constitution Street
Terreshoff Mfg. CO
Phoenix Office
App'y
Mary E. Pierce
Wood Street
Pochamp
Cole
Bristol Neck
H. H. Congdon
Bristol, i
N.P. L
John Shepard
A. W. Orgelmar
Stale Street
James Dixon
Church Street
George W. McGann
J. H. Wall & Co
Borden Ave
Chear-Nowa
Pabtowen
Rew
C. H
Snow Brothers
State Street
J. F.S. Rawson
Bradford Street
H. Straight
Isaac Peems
Practical London
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Edie
Johnh
Loiselle He
Dixon's Restaurant
Thames St
Scale Street
Herman Thiele
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