PALACKAW-L Archives
Archiver > PALACKAW > 2001-06 > 0991494141
From:
Subject: [PA-LAC] The Providence Register, Sat., Nov. 4, 1911
Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2001 11:02:42 EDT
"Providence a Quarter of a Century Ago" [1886]
Miss Lizzie Parsons, of Florida, was a guest at the home of H. R. Hurlbutt.
Mrs. Patrick Neary, aged eighty six years, died at her home, 558 West Market
street.
You could buy twenty-five pounds of rice for one dollar, and twenty-one
pounds of sugar at the same price.
Mrs. W. D. Kennedy was elected president of the Ladies Aid society of the
Providence Presbyterian church.
Four little children were playing in a sand pit near the Cayuga mines when
the earth caved in and suffocated them. Their names were James Caffery, aged
seven; and James, John and Ellen Dougherty, aged seven, six and three years,
respectively.
This thread:
| [PA-LAC] The Providence Register, Sat., Nov. 4, 1911 by |