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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1895
Page
2
Merton Duxbury, who started April 2 from Providence to wheel to San Francisco and back, returned Tuesday to become the only rider to cross the country to and from and the only one to traverse the great American desert. He faced many adventures but persisted to achieve his goal.
Mails close and open times posted for the Bristol Post Office. The schooner Nausett arrived from Long Island light. The Naval Reserve Armory piping contract awarded to Waldron & Brownell. Exhibits and sales at Stevens & Co. 72 Hope St. Capt. Butler leaves Eugenia. new master announced. Various local events include school plans, concerts, charity festivals, and social gatherings with several notable residents named.
The Boston Evening Record previews Brooklyn Handicap at Bristol Opera House on Sept 23. A forged letters plot drives romance and theft with a banker's son, a broken necklace, and a clever heroine who wins the race and aids justice. Performances praise Blanche Seymour and Mary Lavere with Logishey.
Fire crews from three companies arrived Tuesday to extinguish a blaze at the E. F. Brunsen estate barn on Mount Hope Avenue. The structure and hay were destroyed with no insurance and the loss deemed not heavy. Meanwhile the town council grants the Bristol estate administrator permission to transfer a lease on Congregational Street, conditioned on the new lessee agreeing to all lease covenants.
Mrs Geo Fuller of Grafton Massachusetts and Mr Chas Bennett of Sutton visit Mr Arthur McNay. Miss Fannie Mowry and the Misses Lenz of Providence guests at Trinity rectory. Charles Hoyt Jr Harvard 98 lately with uncle W E McLellan. Mrs E F Lucas and family and Mrs H B Noyes return from Bristol. Adjt Charles A Barbour of Babbitt Post and Mrs Lizzie Simmons and Mrs Emma Carey return from Louisville. Barbour joins National Council of administration. Col T F Usher arrives home.
Reba Rebekah Degree Lodge No. 6 Warren held its Annual Harvest Festival at Odd Fellows Hall last night with about 20 Celestia Rebekah guests. Local officers and District Deputy Mrs Grace Harriswang Boand attended. a full program featured readings, solos, duets, choruses, and a bountiful harvest supper followed by dancing and expressions of goodwill.
Copper disk 24 inches in diameter found embedded in cement at southwest corner of the brick school house. Silver plated relic bears St. Albans Lodge No. 6 inscription and a date interpretation linking to 1804. Lodge records and by laws from 1869 saved in town vault. ritual noted in laying of the chief corner stone.
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