Riot Rumors and War News From September 1877 Bristol Page
The issue mixes reports on riots in Pittsburg, European affairs, and local notes. It notes Portmouth drowning, Grant and Turkish war talk, wheat production gains, school superintendent meeting in Providence, and Prohibition sentiment in Massachusetts. Occasional obituaries and public notices appear amid broad political commentary.
Local notes and items from a late issue
The column lists weather remarks and social snippets from the community. It notes mild autumn hints, fruit and crop mentions, fashion, literature, and local happenings including a church picnic, a library dedication, and a misadventure with a cow.
Trinity Church announces Sunday services and programs
The church lists an early 7 AM service followed by morning prayer litany and a sermon at 10. Sunday school at 2, mission school at 4, and evening prayer with a sermon at 7 4. The notice marks the Sixteenth Sunday after Trinity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trinity Church
S.rviews
Mission School
Accidental Runaway Wrecks Photon Car After Collision
Last Saturday evening Col S P Colt and a young woman rode a phaeton with two horses. A broken pole strap caused the phaeton to foul a horse and the buggy to lurch, throwing the lady into a gutter and tossing Colt about. The horses fled five to six miles, wrecking the phaeton. both riders were injured, the lady severely. An one armed man halted the pair near Barrington. both escaped with serious but not fatal injuries.
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Aevon
Col
S. P Colt
Phaton
Franklin Street
Hope Street
Col. Colt
Colt
Thames Street
Warren
St. John's Church
Barrington
Photon
Autumn Weather Clambake and Supreme Court Sessions
The article notes a cool spell with sun ahead and advises caution about Dr Ipecac. It reports the annual clambake at the Bristol Asylum on Bristol Neck with about fifty attendees and orderly facilities. It covers the Bristol County September Supreme Court term with foreman Waldron, cases set for trial, indictments, and a division of civil and criminal dockets.
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Bristol Neck
Supreme Court
Tne
Bristol County
Durfee
David A. Waldron
Barrington
Joseph L. Gardner
Plantiff
Thomas D Wright
John B Taylor
Bristol
van Slyck
Colwell
Dennis Conway
Horace M. Barnes
Edward T Baldwin
Joseph A Barney
Swansey
Mass
Massachusetts
Ballou & French
Puff
Bosworth A
Champhin
Sturges Davis
Phebe Winslow
Appelle
Warren
J Howard Manchester
Captain Winslow
Winslow
Walter S. Hazard
James
Lewis
Sarah B. Livesy
John Livesy
Grand open air concert by B C Band on the Common
The B C Band performed a grand musical open air entertainment on the Common last Thursday evening, drawing a crowd for a lively outdoor music event.
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B. C
Temperance meetings and old Town recollections shared
The piece notes an excursion by Massasoit Encampment of Odd Fellows to Dighton on the steamer Canonicus and a Bristol Band. it also describes a Tuesday Temperance program in Warren with speakers from Providence and J.R. Barney present, plus a long reminiscence of Bastol Rhode Island and local history highlights at Rocky Point, churches, notable figures, and civic memory.
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Massasoit
Odd Fellows
Warren
Dighton
Canonicus
Bristol Cornet Band
Baptist Church
Town Hall
Byfield Hall
Edwin Metcalf
Providence
J. R. Barney
Woman's Christian Temptance Union
H. W. Conant
R. S. Temperance Union
S. B
Troy Daily Times
Buaistou
R. I
Troy
United States
Bastol
Narragansett Bay
Mount Hope Bay
Boston
Byfield
Walley
Oliver and
Burton
John Brown
John
Goy Bradford
Bradford
Mount Slope
King Philip
Narragansetts
Nathaniel Byfield
Dartmoor
Burnside
Rhode Island
Bristol
Times
Gen. B
Trojan Hearts
Newport
Roger Williams
Rocky Point
Narraggnsett
Stephen A. Douglas
Holland
Scribner's
Thomas Shepard
Vincent
Methodist Church
Father Taylor
St. Michael's
Charles Astor Bristed
Washington
Yale
Oxford
Carl Benson
Tilley
Charles F. Herrenhof, Jr
Julia A. Verreshoff
Bristol Piginix
Peter Gladding
Odd Fellows Beneficial Association
Bates
Hiram J. Buck
Pilgrim Lodge
Stephen Smith
Norace
Sophronia K. Hubbard
Meriden
New Hampshire
Horace G. Hubbard
Horace R. Hubbard
Bon
Court of Probate
Saturda
Ferry Road
Clarissa Gardoor
Bristol Harbor
Martin L. Simmons
Sally A. Ingraham
Samuel Ingraham
G. I. Reynolds
Auctioncor
Selots
Anid Bristol
Wood Street
James Clark
Alice Greene
Patrick Brine
Daniel Slade
Devinces
Nicholas Peck
Allen A. Coggeshall
Michael Bannon
Henry A. DeWoll
Thames Street
Henry Gof, Jr
Maria Dew
Rogtr
Richmond Manufaturing Company
John Gray
Mill Pond
Thomas Lindsey
Thomas Wilson
William Bo Gra
Julia Gray
Long Wharf
Allen T. Usher Sebin Elisham Wardwell
Allen T. Usher
Mary
Thomas Jo Uscher
Elizabeth J Usher
Bristol Institution For Savings
Thies Street
Richmond Manufacturing Company
Charlotte DeWolf
Maria Rogers
Charles Fales
Robate
Tite
William H. P. Faunce
George P. Faunce
Albert E. Faunce
George W. Faunce
Daniel W
Mary P. Faunce
Lynn
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Daniel W. Faunce
Barston Phenix
Mary Anna Eddy
Thomas F. Eddy
Fall River
Massachusetts
Afary Anna Caggeshall
Whiting
Tnjn
General Assembly
William Coggeshall
Bristol Phenix
Hunts Remedy Promises Cure for Kidney and Urinary Ailments
An old advertisement touts Hunts Remedy as a preparation that cures kidney bladder urinary diseases diabetes dropsy gravel excesses intemperance and mental physical debility. It claims to cure all diseases of the kidneys bladder and urinary organs.
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Schexck
Schenck
Arch Sts
Philadelphia
Hunt
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Pittsburg
Minster
Gertrude Hazard
Thomas J Hazard
Portmouth
Hamilton Gale
Gail
New York
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Ronal
Charlie Rosses
School Commissioney
le Oclock
Morton
New
Tampstire
Massaclstts
Ther
Andersoy
Achester
Prommonia
Mora
Tevin
Aresti
Ormwr
Patrick TT
Coenen
Crarning
Ana Ty Ome
McCainesy
Tad Stimek
Liege
Italy
WFP
Howe
PSP
Cornell
Ui Escentive
Caucuacs
Lola
Scotty's
St. Mary's T A Society
Colored Mission of
Johnson's Paradise
Oshao Manyaan
Joseph Brown
Wall
Advent Chapel
Joln Collins
Gren Burnside
Jersey Hall
New England
Bae
Coon R
The
Warren Gazette
Jim
J Lew Dinan
Rogers Pree
Bulding
Mo A di W Howe
St. Michael's Church
Rey W. Ackley
Rom
Pluahp
Easterbrooks
Jack Frost
Dr. Ipecac
Rogers Free Library
Jas. P. Lane
Geo. L. Locke
George A. Arnold
William R. McKenzie
William Tobin
Wm. RB
Pliff
Bosworth & Champlain
H.K. & T. B. Thurber & Co
Frank E. Gray
Trover
Sayles & Greene
Pltff
William Sweeney
North Main Street
Sweeney
One Price
Westminster Street
C. E. Longley
Boston and Providence Clothing Company
Providence Journal
Shilon
Shiloh
Bouffington
Shilob
Was. Hl. Buffington
WM. IU. Buffington
Clarke
Glenn
Hill
Grees
WM. Ho Buffington
N. C. Bedell
An Ballou & French
LAW
College Street
Daniel R. Ballou
John Tanner
George T. French
Brisol
Ofice
WM II. Richards
Odd Fellows Building
Bradford Street
G. Pr. Barnes
G. W. Easterbrooke
Samuel P. Colt
Janztf
Sar T. H. Shipman
Momeopathic
Hope
Bradford Streets
Union and
High Streets
Bradford Abeeota
High Street
Constitution Street
West Side
Lewis Gower
Hope and
Rehoboth
Kyuieut—Erve
Moosup Valley
R. IL
Noah D. Knight
Coventry
Emma King
Cranston
Francis D
Jennie A. Waldron
Coleman
Daniel
Dennis Coleman
Gardner
Swanzey
Roswell C. Gardner
Clarence J. Gardner
Leander E
Mary A. Gardner
Cozzens
Middletown
Charles Cozzens
Manchester
Tiverton
Levi Z
Levi Manchester
Baswer
Sth
John B. Baker
Ira S
Harriet W. Baker
VreRce
Betsey M. Pierce
Pallou
Earl Marble
Zanzibar
Mary Helen Beatley
Thames & Talbot
Hawley Street
Phoenix Marine Journal
Port of
R. Borden
Mason
Lt. Durfee
Gannon
Perry
Cordelia
Kk. Borden
B Durfee
J.P. White
Nercules
Terry
Crawell
Wm. F. Mitchell
Verity
Prudence
Schr
Tenzer
Darling
Whale
Edwards
Artist
Forester
Somerset
Helen Mar
Duncan
F. Mitchell
Teazer
Cole's River
Mitchell
R- Borden
B. Durfee
Frme
P.a & F W. Pierce
F. W. Pierce & Co
State Streets
D. A. Pierce
Seldow
F. W. Pierce
Seth Paul Thames
Sel
W. F Paull
Farrington
Unis
P.J. Bradford
Ruth B. D'Wolf
John B. Munro
Ruth I. D’wolf
Robate Court
Town OF
Julia A. Herreshoff
J. DB
Nassau
Rens. Co
N. Y
Temple Place
Jackson
Portland
A. Jackson & CO
M'frs
Petersburg
Kansas
Watkins & CQ
Lawrence
Sas
Ht. E. Dimock
Andrew Hamilton
Mr. Lawrence
Norah Quirk
John B. Pearce
Justice Court
John Mstowe
Henry Thiel
Chamis Street
Reynolt's Manufacturing Company
Imd
Nayatt Point
Winfield G. Hubbard
Horace G
Sophronis K. Hubbard
Homer Hubbard
Bristol Phynix
George F Usher
George F. Usher
Jerk
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