Rhode Island Supreme Court Rules On License Ballot Issue
The Rhode Island Supreme Court ruled the 10 percent canvass law for the license question is void, forcing the license question onto every election ballot. Secretary Bennett instructed towns to include the license proposition in election warrants and prepare ballots for next Tuesday, with Bristol voting separately. There are 15 towns in the state without a license.
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Supreme Court
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Supreme Court
Providence Liquor Dealers’ Association
Anti- Saloon League
Peope
Bennett
Bristol
Dry Year Brings Fewer Drunkenness Arrests in Putnam
Palatka Florida records show a striking drop in arrests for drunkenness and disorderly conduct after Prohibition began in October 1907. The Palatka Police Court docket contrasts 1907 08 figures with the prior licensed-saloon year, noting fewer drunks despite more orderly enforcement and Sunday excursions to St Augustine.
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Palatka
Florida
Putnam County
L R. Lynn
Dry
Friends of Law and Order
Lynn
Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets Offer Free If They Fail
A Hope drugstore in Bristol offers Rexall Dyspepsia Tablets with a personal guarantee. If the tablets do not cure indigestion and dyspepsia, they will be supplied free of charge. The ad touts a new manufacturing process combining bismuth subnitrate pepsin and carminatives for rapid relief and digestion support.
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Hope Drug Co
Bristol
Rexall
Hope Street
Annual Meeting of State Street Church Women’s Society
The Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the State Street M E Church held its annual meeting in the Epworth League parlor on Thursday afternoon. Officers from the past year were re-elected. The president reported on the New England Branch meeting at Melrose in October 1915. After business, refreshments were served.
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Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the
State Street
M.E. Cburoh
Epworth League
New England
Melrose
Bristol Boys Successful in Rhode Island Bar Admissions
James Francis Lavender of Bristol and Edward Lawrence Leahy were admitted to the Rhode Island bar after passing the state exams. Lavender, son of the late Michael Lavender, attended Bristol High School class of ’98, Brown, and Boston Law School, and studied with Richardson & Hammill. Leahy, son of John Leahy, aged 22, is Bristol High School class of ’04, attended Brown and Georgetown, studied law with Higgins & Fitzgerald, and gave the July 4th oration at the G A R Hall. He led the Bryans and Kern Club, belongs to St Marys T A Society and Holy Name Society, and taught at St Marys Sunday School.
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James Francis Lavender
Rhode Island
Providence
Bristol High School
Brown
Boston Law School
Richardson & Hammill
Lavender
Michael Lavender
St. Mary’s T.A. Society
St. Mary’s
Edward Lawrence Leahy
Mr. Leahy
John Leahy
Brown University
Georgetown University
Higgins & Fitzgerald
Leahy
G. A. TN
Bryans and Kern Club
St Mary’s T. A. Society
Holy Name Society
St. Mary’s Sunday School
Georgetown
College Annals
Republican Rally Friday Evening in Bristol Opera House
The first local Republican rally of the campaign will be at the Bristol Opera House Friday at 8 pm. Speakers include Walter E. Munroe, Hop William P. Sheffield of Newport, Col. Geo. H. Webb, Ex-Gov. Kimball and Hon. Henry W. Hayes, who will preside. The Herreshoff Marine Band plays, with gallery reserved for ladies and escorts.
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Bristol Opera House
Walter E. Munroe
State Central Committee
William P. Sheffield
Newport
Congress
Sheffield
Col. Geo. H. Webb
Young Men's Republican Club of
Providence
Henry W. Hayes
Kimball
Herreshoff Marine Band
Democratic Rally in Bristol Opera House This Saturday
Hon Olney Arnold Democratic candidate for Rhode Island governor will visit Bristol as the principal speaker at a rally in the Opera House. Hon J Stacey Brown of Newport will also speak and the public is invited. The gallery will be reserved for ladies and their escorts.
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Olney Arnold
Rhode Island
Bristol
Opera House
J. Stacey Brown
Newport
Pertinent Questions From the Citizen on Saloons and Town Life
A Citizen raises pointed questions about cesspools in tenement yards, Sunday ball games heard from outskirts, sources of drink for drinkers, and the Temperance Society. The note asks who will tackle saloons, where votes are, and which party leads in Bristol, the Rum Party or the Monarch Party.
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Temperance Society
Bristol
Rum Party
Onarch Party
Boys of Bristol Vote in Taft Bryan Election
To All Boys of Bristol. A boys election will be held at the Young Men's Christian Association Tuesday, Nov. 8. Polls open 2 to 6 p.m. A mass meeting is planned for Thursday, Oct. 29, at 8 p.m. in Rockwell Hall. Registration on Monday, Nov. 2, 2 to 6 p.m. Open to members of Boys and Intermediate Departments, employed and nonmembers ages 14 to 18, attendees of the mass meeting, and those registered. Election officials will be Y M C A members.
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Taft
Bryan
Young Men’s Christian Association
Rockwell Hall
Extracting a Splinter with Steam from a Bottle
A historical tip states that deep splinters can be painlessly removed by steam. Fill a wide-mouthed bottle with hot water, place the injured hand over the mouth, and seal. Steam draws the flesh inward, lifting the splinter free within a minute or two and reduces inflammation.
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Yoman
Industrial Trust advert bristol branch notice
Industrial Trust Company notes that the new interest quarter begins November 1 and deposits on savings accounts earn interest from that date with semi annual compounding in February and August. Deposits received on or before November 15 draw interest from November 1 Bristol Branch 525 Hope Street.
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Wardwell Lumber CO
Bristol, R. I
Connery
Men’s Outfitter
F. T. Remieres
Gor
Hope and Bradford Sts
Bristol Public Market
Norfolk
Baltimore
Fall River
Philadelphia
A. L. Bongartz
Mass
James Barry
Providence, R
Stegm
Waldron-Brownell CO
Bradford Street
G M. Wilbur
M.C. A
Bristo
Williams
Tod
St. Duly
St. Augustine
Bristol Boys
Edward L. Leahy
James F. Lavender
All Boys of
Edward D. Kunz
Jeweler
Opticon
The
Providence Telephone Co
Union ST
Franklin
A. P. Nerone
Staples Goal Company
Bristol County Gas and Electric Company
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