Excelsior Club Tennis Championship Draws Set Singles Focus
The third Excelsior Tennis Club championship drawings were completed this morning. With small entries in men’s and women’s doubles the tournament will run only singles tomorrow at Silver Creek, featuring players such as Miss Reynolds, Miss Church, Miss Colt, Miss Seabury, Mrs. Brightman, and Dr. Church among others.
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Excelsior Tennis Club
Silver Creek
Madeline Reynolds
Helen W. Church
Olive Yoong
J. E. Simmons
Missy Mollie Hamil
Fighting the Fly in a War Against Typhoid
A historical notice extols a robust campaign against the common house fly or typhoid fly. It notes fly-borne contagion including typhoid fever germs, cites Albany and Washington findings, urges continued public education, breeding-place destruction, and future intensified efforts. Medical science aims to prevent disease through germ knowledge and inoculation, while public indifference wanes as a strong fight progresses toward making the disease-carrying fly rarer.
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Albany
Washington
Change and memories as Bristol hosts old printer’s apprentice
William Wesley Thompson, once a Bristol printer under Col. O A Greene, visited yesterday after 28 years away. Now head of a Boston book publishing plant for F H Gilson Co, he recalls Trinity Church choir and notes many Bristol changes since 1882, guided by Rev W R Trotter.
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William Wesley Thompson
Phoenix
O. A. Greene
Bristol
Thompson
F. H. Gilson Company
Boston
Trinity Church Choir
Warships in Harbor Near Pappasquash Point
The gunboat Ranger stayed anchored off Pappasquash Point all day yesterday as North Carolina and Montana moved up the bay toward Providence river for the Deeper Waterways Convention. Shallow water blocked their proceed, so the vessels anchored there overnight and sailors enjoyed shore liberty in Bristol in government launches.
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Ranger
Pappasquash Point
United States
North Carolina
Montana
Providence River
Bristol
Hirst Baptist Church Outing at Hunt's Milla
The annual outing of Hirst Baptist Church is planned for September 10 at Hunt's Milla with supper and toast in the G A R Hall hosted by the Class of 1911. Edgehill Temple No. 3 Pythian Sisters also holds its first annual outing at Gibson Park.
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Hirst Baptist Church
Hunt’s Milla
G. A. R. Hall
M.hb.s
Edgehill Temple
Pythian Sisters
Gibson Park
Bristol Pastor Called to Lead Missionary Work in South Carolina
Rev. T. Newton Owen, pastor of Bristol's Congregational Church, has been invited by the American Missionary Association to direct their Colored education and mountain white outreach in South Carolina with headquarters at Avery Normal Institute in Charleston. Owen previously served the association in 1895 96 teaching Greek Testament at Talladega Theological Seminary. He graduated Hamilton College 1892 and was ordained in Albany.
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T. Newton Owen
Congregational Church
American Missionary Association
South Carolina
Avery Normal Institute
Charleston
Mr. Owen
Talladega Theological Seminary
Alabama
Owen
South
Missionary Association of the Congregational Church
Bristol
Hamilton College
Albany
Obituary of Attorney Thomas H Crowley of Bristol
Attorney Thomas Henry Crowley died at St Josephs Hospital Providence Tuesday at 6 80 after three months illness from complications He was born in Stoneville Massachusetts June 19 1860 son of the late James and Sophia Crowley He practiced law first in Pawtucket then Bristol for about 30 years He married Rebscea Alice Perry on April 29 1897 Survived by wife and daughter Frances 12 and sister Emma Crowley of Providence Funeral at St Marys Church with requiem mass Bor n 9 in St Marys Cemetery bears Terrence MonVarty James W Franklin P Henry Morris and William M Nerone
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Thomas Henry Crowley
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Providence
Mr.Crowley
Stoneville
Mass
James
Sophia Crowley
Mr. Crowley
Frances A. Crowley
Morse
Joliette College
Canada
Pawtucket
Bristol
Rebscea Alice Perry
Patrick McCabe
St. Mary’s Church
Crowley
Rhoda Island
Frances
Emma Crowley
Thomas J. Gillan
Terrence MonVarty
James W. Franklin
P. Henry Morris
William M. Nerone
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Attleboro Cancels Bristol Game and Replaces With Providence Stars
Attleboro’s baseball clash with Bristol on the Common tomorrow afternoon is cancelled. Manager Guinan has arranged a 3 15 start against the Providence Stars. The Bristol battery is Cabot Lemaire and McGinley at first.
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Attleboro
Bristol
Guinan
Providence Stars
Stars
Brown
Barniore
Shields
Dunn
McCann
Bahanna
Mathewson
Kehoe
Barnes
Cevill
Bristols
Cabot
Lemaire
McGinley
Ahearn
J. Murphy
Reed
Darling
H. Murphy
Morris
North Carolina
Navy Boys
Star Theater Biograph Programs Show Yarns of Love and Woe
A Biograph program presents As the Bells Rang Out about a father arrested during his daughter's wedding as the couple departs for their honeymoon. Serious Sixteen follows a lively love comedy with a Salvation Army exit and friar fantasy, ending in reconciliation. Matinees and evening shows listed with two cent children’s admission and Labor Day special at 2 30 p.m.
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Biograph
Salvation Army
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Bntce Tuna
W. M. Gonnery
F. T. Remieres
The
Waldron Co
Bove
Say OG Ane
Hope
An Aden
SS Peheils
Hall’s Gedar
Aoata
Lollo
Peterson's
CO. B. Perry
B. H. Ferry
W. F. Payson
Wm. A. Wardwell
Fred King
A. M. Merriman
K. W. Nelson
W. EF. Williams
A. H. Flint, Jr
V. Perry, Jr
J. Daw. Perry
A. Gibbs
Fred Jordan
F. M. Dimond
O. V
Boynton- Farrally
Wo. M. Fischer
J. E. Fletcher, Jr
Thomas Hl. Crowley
Star Theater
Hope Street
Edward D. Kunz
Sntan Byistol
Providence Telephone Co
Dept
Hope Cor
Bradford Sts
Staples Coal Company
State Street
Hope St
Main & Joyce Sts
Warren Tel
Warren 3-L
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