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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1903
Page
4
The PHORSIN office at 5 and 7 Bradford Street advertises buying and selling paper products. Envelopes note or letter paper ruled or unruled tags lined stationery and more can be purchased in large quantities for printing needs at various colors sizes and qualities.
An advertising claim touts Scott's Emulsion as the right treatment for soft bones in childhood. It asserts daily small doses build stiff, straight limbs and strong heads, promising growth, and offers free samples and a $1 cost at druggists.
List of letters awaiting pickup includes Ed Berray Harry Burns Manuel Brum Jose da Rossa Garcia Francisco Ferreireda Silva Manuel Rosada Silveira Mrs Mr. Cook Mrs E B Greene Miss Annie Stanley Mrs Annie Fisherty and Anna Postawska with foreign noted.
The schedule lists Northbound and Southbound electric car times effective May 17, 1908, between Bristol and Providence including Fall River. Weekday and Sunday timings cover departures from Bristol and Fox Point Providence, with arrivals at Bristol from Providence and Sunday schedules noted. Trains run from early morning to late night with express options and numerous minute intervals throughout the day.
Regular service between Providence and Bristol with weekday and Sunday times. Dorrance Weybossett corner departures from 5.46 a.m. to 1.15 p.m. and 12.41 a.m. Riverside car house. Bristol terminus departures from 5.19 a.m. to 12.49 a.m. Frequencies every 30 minutes then hourly. Franklin Street cars depart six minutes after terminus.
The account, told as a letter to the Phania editor, recalls T Snowden Thomas’s 1865 New England visit, his paths from Maryland to Bristol, and his brief Bristol pastorate after calls from David H Ela and Comfort Tiffany. He details his early church ties, war service as hospital chaplain, and later roles in Philadelphia and as editor of Peninsula Methodist. He notes his return visits and enduring connections to the State Street M E Church in Bristol.
The Rhode Island College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts held a joint meeting of the Board of Agriculture and Board of Managers at the college on Wednesday October 7. Governors Garvin Secretary Bennett Obadiah Brown and William Williams and John G Clarke spoke. The boards praised the college’s condition and pledged efforts to advance its interests.
An events list notes October 16 social at Grand Army hall by Ladies Auxiliary to St Marys A S, October 20 Bristol Opera House Maud Maller, October 31 to November 9 Fair of Council Dom Luiz Felippe at Columbia Hall Wood Street, November 26 Game Keeper at Bristol Opera House, January 1 Utah the Great Mormon play, January 12 The Eleventh Hour at Bristol Opera House.
The Rhode Island Drug Co offers a signed guarantee bond with every 50c box of Mi o na. The bond promises Mi o na costs nothing unless it increases flesh, cures stomach troubles, and restores health, signaling extraordinary popularity for this flesh forming food and cure.
Rhode Island Drug Co offers a simple guarantee bond for Mi-o na flesh forming treatment. Deposit 50c for a box and get money back if no benefits observed after use. The product promises to regulate digestion, reduce congestion, restore firm flesh, and improve symmetry and plumpness. Begin today with the guarantee.
The glove is shown as an ancient article, not a modern luxury. Homer and Xenophon mention gloves, Cyrus once forgot his glove, and glove making became a major trade in France. In 790 Charlemagne granted monks in Sithia deer skin gloves. The term glove derives from Anglo Saxon, suggesting Saxons introduced glove making to England.
A Cooking Club guidance piece urges savoring at least one meal daily, possibly all three, with one hearty leisure meal. Eat the others lightly and avoid rushing to the table. The optimal moment is after work, arriving calm to improve taste and digestion.
A humorous exchange unfolds after church as a wife recalls a biblical verse claiming the text about fine linen and silk from Ezekiel sixteen verse ten. The husband challenges the recall prompting a wry courtroom style punchline.
This passage asserts wealth as measured by the capacity to improve one’s own life and extend beneficial influence to others. It frames richness as the breadth of personal virtue and charitable impact through actions and resources.
A concise reflection argues selfishness underlies most unhappiness and suffering. It contends that tracing global pain to its origins would likely reveal selfishness as the dominant factor driving hardship.
A witty remark recalls a clever woman who crafts garments unseen by rival seamstresses. The snippet highlights her skill and social buzz surrounding her quiet talent.
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