Toward Caucus Reform After 1907 Local Debate
The October 15 1907 editorial critiques the Republican caucus packing by Democrats and Citizens and calls for a simple caucus law. It argues packing disenfranchises voters, undermines civil liberty, and urges voters to declare party allegiance in annual town clerk books to restrict caucus participation to enrolled partisans. It stresses that voters should always have a choice at the polls.
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Republican Town Committee
Caucas
Bristol Candidates Decline Support for Mr Wetmore
Bristol General Assembly contenders announced they will not back Mr Wetmore for U S Senator. The decision seems unsurprising and likely to please most Bristol residents under the current circumstances.
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Bristol
General Assembly
Wetmore
U. S
Advert for Rings Little Liver Pills by O W Sparks
An old ad touts Rings Little Liver Pills claiming to cleanse the liver and relieve headache constipation and biliousness. It promises a clear bright skin and lists a 25 cent price.
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O. W.sparks
Bristol Post Office Mails Arrive and Close Times
Bristol post office hours list mail arrival and closing times in detail. Outward and inward mail slots include specific morning and afternoon intervals. Sunday schedule shows general delivery, stamp sales, and carriers racks pickup at the south door.
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South Door
Local Notices and Social Tidbits From Town
Olive's Home made candy Warren and A M Graham of Attleboro spent Sunday in town with relatives. Howard Newman of New York City visited his parents here. Eugene LeClair sold land on Fox Hill Plat to John Brechin. Jono W Mandell, previously ill, is in a nursing home on Catherine Street. NEW YORK STORE patronage noted. Miss Louise Lawless closes cottage for season and will stay at Hotel Belvedere. Floyd Huest heads to Maine hunting trip for weeks. C W Cromer returns from two week stay in New Milford. Epworth League held a devotional on World Evangelization with readings and singing. John Taylor Lewis arrived from Clarksville to care for his father-in-law, Former Lieut-Gov Wardwell. Bristol Train of Artillery band to rehearse. Bernard J Foley to lead.
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C. W Cromer
Phoenix
New Milford
Conn
Epworth League
John Taylor Lewis
Clarksville
William T.O. Wardwell
Providence Moves And Local Notices Across Warren
A collection of Warren and Providence items: A. M. Francis moves family to Providence for work. jurors drawn for Providence Superior Court. James K. Dixon builds a cottage on Orchard avenue for Russell D. Badlock. St. Mary’s churches attend mass. Mrs. Marilda Uarl and Miss Edith Cornel travel to Chicago to visit daughter. Bristol Council members attend Knights of Columbus parade. Coast Survey steamer Bache arrives to resurvey Narragansett Bay. court hearing on Jacob Bassing matter. piano teacher Irene Gertrude Olive opens fall season. Dimond family to Norfolk for James town Exposition. Grace Church rector to preach. State Street M E church to host General Conference in March. Ezra and Fern Dixon return from Europe. Rev. P. M. Vinton preaches. Massasoit tablet dedication planned. Bristol committee car mishap. Warren Republican caucus renominates Frank W. Smith. Dionis E. Vincent nominated for Senator. local police furlough. real estate transfers. fall shoe sale. former Lt Gov Wardwell in comatose state. bridge tea at Mrs. H. H. Cabot’s with many guests.
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Robert N. Turner
Owen Morris
Carrington P. Slade
Providence
James K. Dixon
Orchard Avenue
Russell D. Badlock
St. Mary's Total
Holy Commanion
Marilda Uarl
Edith Cornel
Chicago
Charles W. Smith
Bristol Council
Knights of Columbus
Consolidated Railroad
J. H. Corthell
Lorain
Ohio
L. Corthell
Interlachen
Florida
Jacob Bassing
Frank E. Smith
New York City
Eagan & Gorman
Irene Gertrude Olive
South Main Street
Warren
R. I
David E. Carter
S. C. Dimond
F. M. Dimond
Merchants & Miners
Norfolk
E. M. Tilley
Edmund S. Rawls‘maniere
Grace Church, Providence
Bristol
Frank W. Smith
Smith
Dionis E. Vincent
Capt. Smith
T. S
Memorial High School near completion of exterior work
Exterior work on Memorial High School is nearing completion with light green tiled roofs matching white marble. Most window and door frames are in place though glass and doors are not yet installed. Interior walls and ceilings use hollow brick tiling for fireproofing. The rear assembly hall balcony steel frame is up and brick tiling fills the spaces. the east end stage is built and many radiators have arrived for heating installation soon.
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Colt Memorial High School
Record-breaking Cunarder Lusitania voyage cited in Bristol
Albert S. Chesebbrough has overseen a large steam yacht under construction in Scotland for R. A. Rainey of New York. He arrived in Bristol after the Lusitania’s record trans Atlantic run from Daunt’s Rock to Sandy Hook Lightship in 4 days 19 hours 52 minutes. The voyage averaged 28.99 knots with a best hour of 24.76. Chesebbrough then proceeded to New York and may sail back to Scotland on the Lusitania, possibly in November. He will be absent until next June.
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Albert S. Chesebbrough
Scotland
R. A. Rainey
New York
Bristol
Liverpool
Daunt’s Rock
Sandy Hook
Chesebrough
Lusitania
Missionary Meeting Program in Rhode Island
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of Rhode Island holds its semi annual meeting at the First Baptist Church with two sessions, morning and afternoon. It features prayers, devotions, topic addresses by society secretaries, greetings from Miss Converse and Miss Shinn in Yokohama and Rangoon, and closing exercises with hymns and adjournment.
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Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of
Rhode Island
First Baptist Chuarch
A. S. Stowell
E. Carol Hodge
Warren Association
Frank L Angell
Providence Association
John B. Peck
Narragansett Association
H. Armington
Eleanor Stark
J. S. Madison
Clara A. Converse
Yokohama
Japan
Julia G. Shinn
Rangoon
Burmah
Woman’s Baptist Foreign Missionary Society
Converse and Shinn
M.A. Greene
Emma A. Tiffany
Volacon
Juliette M.ish
Julia C. Shinn
Mary L Colby
M C A Notes on gym classes and team tryouts
The YMCA reports postponed gym classes while locker room work proceeds. A meeting for football team candidates is at 8 PM in Association rooms, and basketball plans are under way. Manager West aims for a standout season with a Friday 8 PM meeting for all interested in basketball.
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West
District Court Ends Morning Session With Guilty Vagrancy Sentence
Clerk Arthur W. Joyce presided as Judge O L Bosworth was absent. Edward Tobin pleaded guilty to vagrancy and received six months at the state work house and house of correction. The case of State vs Edward M Milliken was continued to Oct 28 and Lena Vesella vs Obrisofore D Lello continued one week.
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Arthur W. Joyce
District Court
O. L. Bosworth
Edward Tobin
State Work House
House of Correction
John H. Morrissey
Edward M. Milliken
Lena Vesella Ve. Obrisofore D’lello
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