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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1908
Page
3
La Puipsisawas led by George Rounds won two strings in three against the Hustlers captained by W Def Brown. Friday night in the YMCA A bowling tourney the Owls beat the Militiaents two strings in three. scores not disclosed.
Comrade Edgar E. Aldrich of the Soldiers Home died suddenly at 10 o’clock Saturday evening from heart disease. Born in Millville Massachusetts, he served in Company B Third Rhode Island Cavalry during the Civil War and was admitted to the Home on December 15 1905 from Providence. He was in the sixth year of age. The body was taken to Dedham Massachusetts for funeral services. Survived by two daughters and one son, all in Massachusetts.
The funeral for Randolph N. Dornheim who died Thursday at his Auburn home was held Sunday at 1 pm from his residence. Interment followed at the North Cemetery at 3 pm. A large turnout from the town attended. Dornheim once ran a grocery at Wood Street and Wilson's Lane, now Thomas W. Easterbrooks. He is survived by a widow, three sons and two daughters, with Mrs. Louis W. Kunze of the town as a sister-in-law.
Advert claims readers can gain a pound a day by taking an ounce of Scott's Emulsion. It asserts the emulsion activates digestion, enabling absorption of ordinary food to rebuild body flesh. The text promises health from increased flesh if lacking it, urging continued use.
An advertising notice invites readers to mail four cents and their address, plus the newspaper name, to Scott & Bowne at 409 Pearl Street New York to receive their Complete Handy Atlas of the World. The brief promote contact details and the offered atlas.
Local items from Bristol include land purchases on Usher Place by Daniel Cruickshank, Mrs. Elizabeth Colt in Paris en route home Oct 22, and Rev. William Sheafe Chase to preach at St Michael's Church. Union street house frame up, de Wolf family leaving for New York and France, management changes for the O Wolf mill, and expected hotel seasonal closure. Bristol Gas & Electric to transfer stock to Narragansett Electric Lighting. electricity to power street and home lighting. Bristol Choral Society notes, Maria Burnham birthday, Herreshoff steam tunnel to San Francisco, and naval officer owner of the Albatross. Political conventions in Providence renominations for Adin Capron and Melville Bell, with local delegates listed. Community notices include a Brownell birth, a Davidson surprise party, Ezra Dixon Jr birthday at Woodbine Cottage, ship La Bourgogne arrival, and a Boston judge Colt profile. Also a Prohibitory Temperance meeting, marriages and deaths, and a notable Bristol High School Alumni Association event with Upham’s oration. Ballymena steam yacht trial success, George S. Brown owner in Baltimore.
De Lessep's announces the Panama Canal will be opened to traffic in July 1890. Snow fell in parts of the Mohawk Valley, with Nebraska City receiving three inches. Narragansett Bay dredging made Pettaquanscott River navigable for vessels drawing seven feet. William L. Pearse, long-time resident at 108 High Street, moved with his family to Attleboro Massachusetts.
A fable line features a sluggard arguing that visiting an uncle and earning two dollars on a watch suffices. the ant questions the usefulness of moving at all, illustrating a moral about effort and prudence.
Mrs Michael Bloom an 80 year old from Lewistown Pennsylvania says she grew weak and wheeled in an invalid chair. After three bottles of Vinci cod liver preparation her strength returned and she can walk a quarter mile. She urges others to use Vinci and promises a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
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