Fancy Dress Party At Home Of Wallis Howe
A refined fancy dress affair planned by Mrs Walter Hidden of Ferry Hilly at the home of Wallis Howe featured elaborate costumes and excellent music by Straight Brothers Orchestra. Guests included Edith Howe Grace Howe Paul Howe Arthur Howe Jr F Green FE Hinckley Providence Miss Van Wickle J B Mills D R Oase the Oase sisters Mr and Mrs W G Hackney and many Providence and local attendees.
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Wascheldiatt
Wallis Howe
Tan
Yard ‘Love
Walter Hidden
Ferry
Edith*Howe
Grace Howe
Paul Howe
Arthur Howe
F. Green
Garved
iMra
A. Barrows
Mra
Ernesten
Once in a While Sun Shines Through Clouds of Doubt
A reflective verse notes that occasionally bright moments appear amid doubt. It speaks of faith, friendship, love, and moments of joy in life, contrasting sorrow with glimpses of paradise and pure happiness found in simple, steadfast feelings.
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Paradise
Earth
Tiny Irish Tale on Money Talk and Teeth
A brief comic scene features Jacky speaking with a minister about money talking and the minister’s indulgent humor. Jacky reveals his father has a new set of false teeth, while the minister quips about the old teeth being cut down for Jacky to wear.
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Jacky
Playful Baron Rothschild’s Blank Script Prank
Baron de Rothschild offered a writer a play and urged him to read it. The manager agreed to produce it, but upon unrolling the script the pages were blank, revealing a humorous ruse from the Parisian baron. The manager declared it a masterpiece only after the gag.
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jRothschild
Baron
Henri
Rothschild
Baron de Rothchild
Longest engagement tale from a veteran admiral
At the Army and Navy club in Washington a group of officers swap stories of wars with Spain and the Philippines. A grizzled naval commander listened as a young officer asked for his longest engagement. The reply was the three years of marriage to a woman who later married someone else.
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Army and Navy Club
Washington
Spain
Philippines
Washington Star
Two Years of Shame After Wedding Payment Mistake
A Philadelphia Record excerpt recounts a man confessing two years of shame after mistakenly giving a preacher five dollars instead of twenty. He feared ridicule or accusation of lying and only later admitted his error, expressing regret for the gift.
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Philadelphia
An Interesting Old Rhode Island Register Item
A dusty 1826 Rhode Island Register entry lists state officers like Governor James Fenner and Secretary Henry Bowen, Bristol court clerks, militia leaders, and banks with officers. It notes newspapers, early American presses, and Bristol tax shares, with details on town population and property rateables as of 1824.
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Rhode Island ‘Register
United States
Rhode Island
Times
Atatan
Avery
Providence
Brown & Danforth
South Main Street
Government of
James Fenner
Charles Collins
Nathan ‘Brown
Johnston
John O’wolf
Bristol
Benjamin Smith
North Kingstown
Stephen B. Cornell
Portsmouth
William Whipple
Cumberland
Elisha Watson
South Kingstown
John R. Waterman
Warwick
Charles Eldredge
Fast
Greenwich
Joseph Cross
Charlestown
Joel "Metcalf
Henry’ ‘Bowen
Dutee J. Pearce
Thomas G. Pitman
County of
John Howland
James Siason
John Peck
James Bowen
Supreme Judicial Court
Samuel Coggestadl
Court of Common Pleas
Richard Smith
Greenwood Eee
William ‘Kroop
Thomas ‘Diman
William Pearce
Samuel Coggeshall
George Coggeshall
Zebedee Paull
Byron Diman
Joseph W. Toney
Nathaniel T. Paine
William Reynolds
Nathaniel Bullock
Allen Wardwell
Thomas Richmond
Rescom Hart
Peter Church
John Howe
George O'Wolf
First
Bristol Artillery
Hezekish
C. Wardwell
Samuel Taylor
William Heynolds, Jr
Jarvis B. Pearce
Brown University
Alexander V. Griswold
Robert Rogers
A. M
Providence Plantations Peace Society
Barnabas Bates
General Assembly
Benjamin Norris
Union
Italy
Great Britain
B. Green
Boston Gazette
Samuel Kneeland
Newport
James Franklin
Maryland
Jonas Green
New York
Reminiscences of Bristol in 1899 News Notes
Recurring social orbit in Bristol reports yacht racing off Newport where Colombia beats Defender by 18 minutes on a 4.8 mile course and a flurry of visitors and residents travel, host, and mingle across Woonsocket New Haven Concord and Providence. The column records arrivals departures marriages and community trivia with long lists of names and places.
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Newport
Colombia
Defender
Grace Hixon
Woonsocket
Lida KF. Pearse
Ada Munroe
Franklin Street
Mt. Pleasant
Heilbroul
California
Sylvester Munro
Catherine Street
Frederick Murphy
Telephones Exchange
Allyn Rawson
Sarah
Tessie’ Rhone
New Haven
Conn
Mary Cole
Union Street
B. R. Wilson, Jr
Magpie Fish
Putney
Vermont
Hattie Liscomb
Bristol
Concord Woman's Hospital
F. A. Easterbrooks
Charles F. Hixon
Grace
Oliver ©. Pearse
Bristol Town 1825 Bank Listings and Civic Officers
The text lists Bristol banks in 1825 with capital stock and officers, plus town officials, ministers, physicians, attorneys, and tax officers. It names five banks Commercial Eagle Freemen's Union with presidents and cashiers, and details town clerk council treasurer sergeant assessors collectors and auctioneers. It also notes several societies and Masonic lodges with officers and meeting times.
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Bristol
Capital Stock
John’ D’wolf
Samual Smith
Commercial
William D’ Wolf
John Wardwell
Eagle
R. Rogers, Jr
William Manescher
Freemen’s
Benjamin Norris
L. O
Richmond
Union
P. Borden
Josiah Gooding
Allen Wardwell
John ‘Howland
Thomas Church
William Pearce
Ambrose Waldron
Benjamin Munro
Richard Smith
John O'Wolf
John Peck
Orrin Spencer
William Reynolds
Ichabod Davis
Samuel Coggeshall
Alexander V. Griswold
Henry Wright
Joel Mann
James Merritt
Bristol Tract Society
Joe Mann
William Muenscher
B. Wyatt
Bristol Auxiliary Marine Bible Society
Bristol Episcopal Missionary Society
Eastern Diocese
St. Alban’s No 6
Sylvester Luther
John Gardner
Samuel Wardwell
Benjamin Wyatt
Hezekiah Norris
John Chadwick
Job M. Sorrows
Nathan Warren
Samuel Warren
Joseph Booth
Tyler
M Bristol Master's Lodge
Sylvester Lather
Obadiah D. Brown
Philip Pitkin, Jr
Joseph Coit
William Hoar
John Wasddworth
Bernal G. Browning
Job M. Barrows
Tailor Seeks Measure for Theologian in Comic Exchange
A London tailor measures Dr Parker for an overcoat when the grave physician asks to measure the ineffable and the infinite. The tailor suggests a longer coat to keep walking, while the doctor, raising his arms, declares he wants to soar rather than walk.
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London
Parker
Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad
An early 20th century ad touts Dr Kilmer’s Swamp Root as a cure for kidney and urinary issues. It claims benefits for back pain, rheumatism, and difficulty in holding water, with bottles offered in fifty cent and one dollar sizes and a free sample request.
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Miki
Dr. Kilmer& Co
Bingcashton
Dr. Kilmer
Binghamton
It Makes a Difference in Levers on Duel and Wine Glass
The excerpt shows Charles O Malley in a boast before a duel and a friend’s remark about the wine glass. The mentor comments that the glass has no place in a hand, underscoring restraint over bravado.
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Charles ‘O'Malley
Fate and past marked in Cleveland Leader reflection
A compact thought on altered perception from future to past, with a brief nod to Cleveland and the Leader. The speaker laments loss of a promising future and the shift to a tainted present, reflecting on time and identity. The piece reads like a pithy editorial quip from a newspaper column.
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Fate
Cleveland
Mother and child playfully retell an old shoe rhyme
A mother recites an old children’s verse about a woman in a shoe, and daughter Mabel interrupts with a humorous correction about the shoe being a child’s size. The exchange captures a playful domestic moment.
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Mabel
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