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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 04, 1895
Page
2
Bristol and Warren residents extend sympathy after a large fire last night. The event exposes the Bristol Warren Water Co’s inadequate fire protection and pressures the need to accelerate the town’s purchase of the water works. The editorial urges speeding up improvements to prevent future losses.
The notice urges readers to consider merchant ads as fair value and honest trade. It argues advertisers place their business before the public to show reasonable prices and quality, rewarding buyers who support proactive, progressive merchants.
The town sees Thames street stores rented by three local youths and a wave of development. New school facilities ease congestion, while Herreshoff contracts bring workers and families. Builders like T McCarty expand tenements, signaling Bristol’s push toward growth and a revived water front.
A massive blaze engulfed Warren last night destroying Waterman Manufacturing Company mills in Mill No 1 and threatening the town. Insurance covers about 850000 of a million dollar loss. 1100 workers, mostly French Canadian and Polish, lose jobs as fire crews from Providence Fall River and Bristol battle the flames amid low water pressure. The fire began in the boiler room at 7 pm with cotton drying near the sparking boiler.
The renowned comedian Dainty Fanny Rice appears at the Providence Opera House October 7 8 and 9 with a new musical comedy Nancy Critics praise her wit and wholesome persona The card also notes a Sunday lecture by Robert G Ingersoll on October 13 at the same venue.
The piece urges men to treat wives as partners and confidants. It stresses that women contribute to money saved, household needs, and child upbringing, and urges husbands to share news and tastes, subscribe to the paper their wives need, and recognize the quiet strength of a good wife.
Mails close and open times listed for Bristol Post Office. Local items include dancing school, new businesses, a cigar store, fall clothing, fishing, yacht arrivals, society meetings, a bridge of events at churches, a fire scare at National India Rubber Company, tax collection updates, and various local notices and social happenings.
A clam bake for about 50 friends was hosted at Seth Paull’s premises with Mr. Bosworth’s peanut taffy praised. Burial arrangements moved George H. Vaillant from Hopeworth Sanitarium to Cleveland. he was 54 and vice president of the Erie Railroad residing in New York. Tax records misstate Wardwell coal pocket value, causing local discussion. Burnside Lodge installs W F Peters as Keeper. Bristol Female Charitable Society elects officers. notes on Knights in new hall and upcoming dedication. Stop that cough by using McNay's horebound cough candy.
A Good Entertainment reviews Fabio Romani at the Opera House praising a tragic dramatic flow and strong scenery. The serpentine dance by Grace Hunter and realistic living pictures win praise while the audience behaves admirably under Manager Straight’s firm policing to prevent disturbances.
A witty editorial compares monopoly to a baby and argues a man opposes it in theory until he owns one, illustrating human paradox in economic allegiance. The piece uses general principles to mock self interest and protection of property.
Dr D J Neylan spent the week in New York. Matthew Younger visits relatives in New York. E D Poole of Buffalo N Y made a brief Bristol visit. Dr W W Hollingsworth owner of Ellide returns to Atlantic City. John W Best of Hazelton Pa visits Bristol. staying with Mr and Mrs Lawder. Miss Mary L Hayes visits sister Mrs Joseph Fletcher. Mrs Lucy Pearse of Edgartown Mass and her son guests of Mrs Mary Pearse. Russell S Church leaves Bristol for Yale Medical School. Miss Ellen Liscomb leaves Portland Me to visit brother manager of Portland steamers to Boston. Jobo Lake Jr leaves for Bellevue Hospital Medical College after Brown University study. Charles A Gladding of Philadelphia arrives in town. returns home with family after hot weather. The Priscilla steamer blasts as it passes a ferry, conveying farewell signals to friends.
She works to honor the Gould name through notable charity and public-minded acts. The tribute focuses on her efforts to keep the era of Jay Gould alive by extending help and support to communities through generous contributions.
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