A regular feature looking back at what was being printed more than 100 years ago in the Bristol Daily Courier. This week’s entry comes from the September 5, 1917 edition of the newspaper.
Aged Woman Arrested For Disturbance
Gladys Moore, an aged gray haired woman, giving her residence at Wilkes-Barre, made another of her semi-annual visits to Bristol yesterday. As is her custom she came to town intoxicated and taking a stand in front of the Riverside Theatre at Radcliffe and Market streets and began to go through a singing performance, much to the amusement and also to the disgust of those who saw her.
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The police, attracted by the singing, thought they were being serenaded and Officers Bloodgood and Rodgers walked over and taking the woman by the arm escorted her to the station house.
She continued her singing until 1 last evening. She possessed an incessant flow of song. At different I times she would call out, “Fighting for my country, and arrested again.”
This morning she was taken before Justice Kraft. Chief Saxton recognized her as an old offender. She told a story of being on her way to New Brunswick to visit her daughter. In default of paying $10 fine and costs she went to Doylestown for 30 days.
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