Yachting Contests Amid War News And Academic Honors
A 1899 dispatch notes Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock efforts near Colombo and Columbia's near record in the race, with commentary on weather, spectator views, and rival English sentiment. It also mentions new university presidents Faunce at Brown and Hadley at Yale, Transvaal ease, and a Westerly mail theft, framing a broad current of national events and sport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Faunce
Brown
Arthur Twining Hadley
Thomas Lipton
America
Bristol Post Office Outward and Inward Mails Schedule
Bristol and vicinity notes show outward mail cutoffs for New York, Providence, Boston and east, plus arrivals from New York and the east. Inward mails open for distribution about 45 minutes after arrival. The harvest festival of State Street M E Church set for Sunday evening October 29. Various local shoppes, a new sewer on Church Street for the Dreadnaught Hook and Ladder Company, and plans for a leather goods and sewing item sale at stores. A real estate transfer in Thames Street involving J Marsden Perry and Col Colt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Providence
Boston
State Street
MFE
Church and
Hope Streets
Church Street
Eugene LeClair
High Street
Union Street
William Street
J. Marsden Perry
Col 8.P Colt
Thames Street
George Watkinson
Philadelphia
Fall and winter footwear and local notices in town
Classified items report low price shoes at New York Store and Albany style offerings from A P Nerone. Local events include a social at Byfield Rubber Co employees, K of P visit to Burnside Lodge, a funeral in Warren for Michael J O’Neil, Miss Juliette Fish returning from Brooklyn, land sale by Richard Dunbar to Frank Mowry, and calendar samples at PHaNix. Also notes on street repairs, a smoke talk by Lewis Lodge, and a postponed mortgagee auction for William S. Earl property.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church and
Hope Streets
W T. Wardwell
Miss Wardwell
New York
Michael Jelin
Hyman Yarlasavetsky
LS Hoffman
Byfield Rubber Co
Artillery
Burnside Lodge
K. of P
Bristol
Michael J. O'Neil
Warren
Juliette M. Fish
Brooklyn
Richard H. Dunbar
Woodlawn Avenue
Wood Street
Frank N. Mowry
Phanix
Lewis Lodge
A.O.U.W. Nexr
J. R. Milson
Olneyville
Bay View Avenue
Callan
State Street
Nerone Col Colt
Linden Place
Philadelphia
William S. Earl
Metacom Avenue
George E Benard
Benard
Curtis, Crawford, Fitzpatrick and Hathaway
Soule & Iarrington
A. P Nerone
Julia Hammill
High Street
Court Street
Abby E Luther
Bradford Street
T Newton Owen
First Congregational Church
Illiam
Charles Luther
Charles L. Miller
Fred I. Waldron
North Cemetery
Capt. Miller
G. A. R. Hall
L. Weinstein
Lecture on Discoveries in the Buried Cities of Babylon
Edgar James Banks will lecture at Bristol YMCA next Sunday at 4 PM on discoveries in Babylonian ruins and their biblical significance. The talk features inscribed tablets, ancient costumes, and travels in Arabia with notes on Nineveh and Ur. Proceeds support excavation work and public music will accompany the event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol Young Men's Christian Association
Edgar James Banks
Germany
Bagdad
Turkish Arabia
Jonah
Babylonia
Desert
Arabia
Nineveh
Babylon
Tower of Babel
Chaldees
Abraham
Palace of
Sargon
National Library of
Assyria
Temple of
Nippur
Electric Bitters Proved To Free Woman From Illness
Manches ter Michigan resident George D Williams shares how his wife, bedridden for five years, regained ability to care for herself after two bottles of Electric Bitters. The advertisement touts the remedy as a cure for nervousness sleeplessness melancholy headache backache fainting and dizziness with a 50 cent price and guarantee from J H Young & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George D. Williams
Manchester
Mich
J. H. Young & Co
Bucklen Arnica Salve Promises Quick Healing
A vintage advertisement touts Bucklen Arnica Salve as a cure for skin eruptions and a wide range of conditions including fevers, ulcers, boils, felons, warts, cuts, burns, chapped hands, chilblains, and piles. It claims pain relief and says a 25 cent box is available from J H Youpy & Co. druggists with a cure guaranteed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bucklen
Arnica
J. H. Youpy & Co
Doxman Company seeks managers in counties nationwide
Wanted several bright and honest persons to represent us as managers in this and nearby counties. Salary 900 for four years plus expenses. Straight bona fide no more no less salary. Position permanent. References from any bank in any town. Mostly office work conducted at home. Enclose self addressed stamped envelope. Dept. 3 Chicago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elf
Doxman Company
Dept. 3
Chicago
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bristol Phoenix
Bristol County
Ofice
Bradford St
Farrally Brothers
Bristol Post Office
Phoenix
Phoentis
Alwa
G W. Easterbrooks
J.C. Pailthorp
O. W. Sparks
W J. Fish & Co
Hope Street
High St
Y M.C
Ambrose Waldron
Hezekiah J Pitman
W Snow
Abby E. Luther
New Orleans
Manila
Suez Canal
Sir Thomas
Thomas Lapton
Herreshoff
Providence News
Transvaal
Vryburg
Aheas
Westerly
Hi Wills
Joseph and
Julia Scott
Wills
Columbia
Shamrock
Ameren
California
Dodge & Camfield
Exchange Place
Latler Exchange
Thos
F. Peirce & Son
Westminster & Dorrance
Providence, R. I
Bristol and Vicinity
West
South
East
Lottie Beard
National India Rubber Company
W. RK Douglass
Eliza Gladding
Miss Boneto Saldanour
Hopedale
Mass
William Low
Ferry Hill
Compressed Coal Company
Easterbrooks Block
Hope and
State Streets
Blanchard
Soldier's Home
Tumanity
Church
New York State
A. P. Nerone
Alice Spaulding
Salisbury
Henry M Slocum
Stephen W Church
John Church
Sparks
Opera House
Thames Streets
F. A. Wright
Garfield Avenue
A. S
Garfield Ave
Lincoln Ave
Rouse
Borden Ave
Lincoln
Coleres & On
Borden Avenue
C. H. Manchester
Emma T Adcock
Ivory
the Society
L.L. Anderstrom
Young Men's Christian Associations of
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Lowell
Anthony Comstock
New York City
Worth
Bristol Association
P. Skinner, Jr
W. R. Davis
Stephen W. Church
John S. Weeden
L. L. Anderstrom
Dixon
Association
Pease
Smith
Theron H Carter
Theron Harlowe Carter
Boston City Hospital
Carter
Brown University
Law Department
Columbia College
Harvard Medical School
Bristol County Gas & Electric Co
Bristol Harbor
John Shepard
Oo. L. Bosworth Attorney-at-Law
Boe. Street
R.11
Co. H. Straight
Alwys
R. H. Dunbar
Aot
Hope
Department of the National India’ Ber Co
Bath
Eh St
Ambrose Waldrun
Town OF
Augustus A. Gravel
Frank Ryan
Fown
Herbert F. Bennett
M. C
Suidding
Weinstein
Thlor
W. R. Douglas
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