Miss Lizzie Barney ill. Bristol notes and naval reserves
Miss Lizzie Barney, sister of Dr. Milton H. Barney of Warren, RI, is ill at Fred Barney's residence on Metacom avenue. Bristol notes report dividends to Friendly Aid Society survivors. new Bristol Naval Reserves officers elected. King Philip Spring Water promotion. local relocations and social events. border town life in Sept items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizzie Barney
Milton H. Barney
Warren, R. I
Fred Barney
Church Farm
Metacom Avenue
Order of the Friendly Aid Society
Wm. B. Dimmock, Esq
New York
Bristol Naval Reserves
New York Naval Reserves
Samuel Gladding
King Philip
B. D. Bosworth
Providence
Bristol
N. Y
Adams Jefferson Bennett
Marguerite DeWolf Allen
District Court
Bosworth
J. Nanson
J. Trudell
J. J. Christie
Soldiers Home
Epworth League of
St. M. E
Central Falls
Frank M. Wardwell
Emma Carey
John B. Pollock
Alice Slade
Mattie Paull
Phebe Vickery
Cook Street
Wm. J. Smith
State St. M. E. Church
Ridgewood Cemetery
Baptist Young People’s Society
Warren
Florida
Brown
Philadelphia
Cranston Woolen Mill
L. M. Kortright
Apollo Choral Society
Elnathan P. Brownell, Jr
Ensign Goddard
Newport
Kane
Miantonomah
Bristol Company
High Street
Court House
Alert Social Club
Elmwood
Jared B. Sparks
Bradford Street
Wm. M. Gorham
Dora Bosworth
J. J. Wilkinson
J. Augustus Miller
Clara W. Bushnell
Colgeilman Ezra Mason
Metacum Avenue
C. A. Barbour
Taunton
Mass
Plymouth
John Rawson
Princeton N. J
Toenday
Wm. H. Hodgkinson
Wendell W. Davis
W. Fred. Williams
Geo. H. Bush
James F. Finlay
Benjamin T. Munro
Bert Dunbar
Archibald Dunbar
Joseph Kinder
Samuel E. R. Dalton
George W. Warren
Albert Gale
Bertha Ganshirt
Carl Ganshirt
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Wm. H. Andrews
King Philip Steamer and Hose Co
No. 1
Emma L. Seiffert
State Street
Fish Balls or Bullets and Local Notices
A Bristol County news snippet blends a wartime chat at a corner grocery with a punchline about fish balls replacing bullets. The tale features a veteran claiming naval service while admitting he was a cook. a prior appeals to pensions contrasts with the old man’s skepticism. The piece shifts to civic items including court sessions, land sales near Bristol Ferry, performances by J. R. Adams Crazy Lot Co, local journalism praise, and Mrs. Chas F. Gladding's travel and G.A.R. attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nismons
Heavy Taxpayers List in Bristol Reflects Large Estates
A Bristol taxable list names residents and firms with taxes on ten thousand dollars or more. Highlights include estates of Church, Dunbar, Wardwell, Herreshoff, and companies like Providence Bristol Railroad, Fall River and Providence S B Co, and National India Rubber Co. totals exceed tens of thousands for many names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Allen
Eliza V. Andrews
Edward S. Babbitt
Sumner A. Ball
Horace M. Barnes
William H. Bell
Augustus O. Bourn
le Baron
Mary Jane Brunsen
Russell D. Bullock
William B. DeWolf
Canfield & Canfield
Daniel R. Case
Samuel W. Church
Benjamin Church
Hezekiah W. Church
Charles H. Church
James C. Church
Samuel W. Church & Brothers
Matilda W
Fannie F. Dunbar
H. W. Church
L. L. Lawless
Eliza W. DeWolf
Charles H. Dabney
New York
Frederic A. Easterbrooks
Frederic N. Fales
George H. Farrington
George T. French and Wife
John B. Herreshoff
Sarah L. Herreshoff
Herreshoff Manufacturing Co
Thomas G. Holmes
M. A. DeWolf Howe
Herbert M. Howe
Frederic A. King
Louisa L. Lawless
Alice C. Lawless
Lousa L. Lawless
Lois R. Low
William G
J. Howard
Manchester
Samuel S. Munro
John B Mills
William H. Munro
Edgartown
Mass
National India Rubber Co
Allen M. Newman
Rebecca A. Norris
Samuel Norris
William and
Seth Paul
Seth Paull
George H. Pearse
Weils G. Peck
Ann Pierce
Mason
Providence, Warren and Bristol Railroad
Julia S. Perry
Henry B. Renwick
Richmond Manufacturing Co
Hamsh B. Smith
P. Colt
John G. Watson
Hall's Hair Renewer Promises Hair Growth
Advertises Hall's Hair Renewer as a remedy for gradual hair loss and baldness, claiming it stops shedding and provides healthy regrowth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
Rudolph Yasser Expands Rhode Island Cigar Line
Rudolph Yasser a leading Rhode Island cigar maker launches the Silver King a five cent seller and the Golden Wedding a ten cent brand both praised for fine flavor and quality by the trade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rudolph Yasser
Rhode Island
Central Drug Store on Hope Street Promotes School Supplies
Advertises a large selection of school goods at low prices including paper, tablets, slates, pencils, blotters, crayons, inks, paste, and more at Central Drug Store, 185 Hope Street. Also promotes Ayer's Sarsaparilla as a leading blood purifier and medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hope Street
Wm. H. Buffington
Sandford
Central Drug ‘Store
Ayer
Strange Insect Invades Bristol Causes Tree Borings
A peculiar bore insect, rare in this region, appeared in Bristol weeks ago attacking a sugar maple on Bradford Street. The pest bores deep holes, multiplies recently, and several specimens are held by Giles G. Congdon who sent samples to Chicago for mounting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Bradford Street
Massachusetts
New England
I. D. Harris
Cambridge
Mass
Gov. Everett
Zoological and Botanical Survey of
Harris
Giles
Congdon
Chicago
Providence Bulletin
Ayer's Pills Promoted for Liver and Stomach Health
An advertisement proclaims Ayer's Pills regulate the liver strengthen the stomach and cleanse the bowels highlighting their tonic effects and digestive benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ayer
Prayer and Work The Path of Divine Help and Human Effort
The text argues that God requires cooperation and prayer from humans, pairing effort with faith. It likens life to a perpetual battle where virtue is a flood we must labor to master, and claims strength comes through prayer. Without prayer, resistance to temptation fails and helplessness is professed.
Adams Stars in Farcical Pantomime at Town Hall Bristol
James R. Adams leads a company presenting a farcical pantomime with Bobby Buttons and Miss May Young providing humor and dancing. Ruth delivers graceful acrobatics, while Mullen and Bixby entertain in a novel black face sketch. French dancers Blapi and Lillo perform high kicking numbers. They appear at Town Hall Bristol on Thursday September 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James R. Adams
Bobby Buttons
May Young
Kelly
Burgess
Ruth
Mullen
Bixby
Adams
Mons
Madame
Blapi
Lillo
Boston Globe
Town Hall
Bristol
John L Sullivan in A True American at Providence Opera House
The Providence Opera House presents a three act romantic drama A True American written for John L. Sullivan by Edmond E. Price from New York on the 17th 18th and 19th. Cast includes Bobby Mack Nellie Lawrence E F Gilpin May Donahue King Sisters and the Barrows children. Sullivan as John Desmond and his pugilistic duel with Dan Dwyer headline the run with Bobby Mack delivering Irish comedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Providence Opera House
John L. Sullivan
Edmond E. Price
New York
Bobby Mack
Nellie Lawrence
E. F. Gilpin
May Donahue
King Sisters
Barrows
Sullivan
Dan Dwyer
Mr. Sullivan
John Desmond
Advent Christian Church Announces Sunday Services
The Advent Christian Church invites skeptics and doubters to Sunday services with a 2 30 p m sermon titled The Duty and Fate of Infidelity and an evening topic to follow. The pastor will preach at 2 30 p m next Sunday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. A. Warner
Advent Christian Church
Death notices for Bertha Gaenshirt Julia Mare rowvaeee and Pheve Vickery
Notices report the deaths in this town of Bertha Gaenshirt aged 29 years and 20 days on September 11 and Pheve Vickery aged 68 years on September 8. Also listed is Walter L. Caldwell aged 22 from the Caldwell family, said to be the son of Josiah Caldwell of London, England, who died on September 12 on the Island of Cuba.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Qakashikkt
Bertha Gaenshirt
Marinthiatown
Julia Mare
Pears
P Viickery
Pheve Vickery
Caldwell
Cuba
Walter L. Caldwell
Josiah Caldwell
London
England
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David
Ethiopa
Fred S. Burgess
Mary S. Pearse
Lucy R. Pease
Burnside Lodge, K. of P
Mount Hope
Gorham
North Dighton
Tobin
Read
Frank Case
Riverside
Wm. T. C. Wardwell
Wardwell Lumber Co
Herbert I. Bennett
Grand Army Hall
Sons of the American Revolution
Barker
the Daughters of Liberty
James Hilton
Taday
Rubber Works
R. I
Bristol Fire Department
Pawtucket
Court of Probate
James M. Munro
Ann D. Pierce
American Surety Co
Marmaduke Mason
James A. Miller
Geo. H. Peck
Anna M. Kendall
Benjamin L. West
Mason M. Pierce, Jr
James P. Pierce
Common Pleas Division
Supreme Court For
Bristol County
Wm. G. Low
Bristol Ferry
John H. West
Jose F. Duroo
Boston
Frank B. Silva
New Bedford
J. R. Adams
New Crazy Lot Co
James H. Coggeshall
the Standard
Chas. F. Gladding
Thames Street
Chas F. Gladding
Pittsburgh
James
Mus. H
Lincoln Ave
Bristol, R
Byx
Adibor of
Phanix
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