Welcome Home Celebration Keeps Bristol Bright
The Welcome Home Day features a banquet with floral decor, a medal ceremony for uncalled honorees, and a ball game between Revere Rubber Company of Providence and Bristol with a 10 to 1 score. Bristol entertainers, boxing bouts at the Newport Naval Training Station, and a lively evening of concerts, vaudeville, and dancing completed a full day of civic salute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Straight
Revere K Rubber Company
Providence
Bristol Boys
Sio
Revere Rubber
Garvin
Baker
Bottomley
Hill
Murphy
Darling
Kennedy
Revere
McNamee
Nelson
Torgan Shields
O Bottomley
Forgan
J Garvin H Murphy
Haker Bottomley
Hall Nordquist Johnson
OW Wieman
Hs Kiernan
Carl Witherell
Bristol
To Os
Newport
Pukea
Newport Sarher
Pas
First Division at Naval Training Station Band Escort
The Bristol unit details a military escort request led by Major Ralph W. Holt with Co CC under Arthur W Barrett and Captain Callan. The 4th Separate Sanitary Detachment and AM Merriman are listed among returning service men from Army Navy and Marines with orders from the commanding officers.
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Naval Training Station
Bristol
Ralph W. Holt
Co CC
Arthur W Barrett
Msth
KT State Guard
Mo Straight
Merriman
Army Navy
Maries
Navy
F He Callan
Unclear Military Draft Item In Campo Sims Era
Fractured OCR reads about naval reserves activity tied to Campo Sims and a camp. Specific names and dates are unreadable.
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Camp Sims
Naval Reserves
Campo Sims
Unclear reader text with scattered names and places
Fragmentary OCR item listing multiple names and terms without coherent context. Contains numerous proper nouns such as Walter, Patsy, Colima and Philip but lacks a clear event or subject. No discernible date or organization identified.
Fifth Division Ship Civilian Bands and Societies
Manuel Goulart leads the Marshal Staff Band with Portuguese societies in the SINTH division while Malafronte conducts the Royal Band and Italian societies in the Fifth Division.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manuel Goulart
Sous Malafronte
Royal Band Italian Societies
Bristol Parade Honors Service Men and Women
The Seventh Division led a Bristol parade along State to Wood streets and the common, featuring Willian Mo Conners and Marshal Herreshoft's Marine Band. The program included an invocation, Star Spangled Banner, address of welcome, service medal presentation, and a Red Cross involvement, followed by a banquet at the Naval Armory for returning Bristol service members.
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Thames Street
Armory
Stephen Hopkins
Talbot & Hopkins
Willian Mo Conners
Herreshoft
Marine Band
Turnside Lodge No 34
Knights of Pythias
Edgehill Temple
Pythian Sisters
Babbitt Post
Bristol Train of Artillery
Tieat
Charles Sartini
State Street
Hope Street
Church Street
High Street
Valley Treet
Wood Street
Common
Albert Lo Cahill
Uo Os
Judge Orn
Bosworth
Joseph F. Farrally
War Welfare Committee
Bristol
American Red Cross
Naval Armory
Thomas Hew
Afternoon Band Concerts and Local Events
Afternoon program features a 50 piece Boy Scouts Band at Burnside Memorial Building at two o'clock A Fair Ray concert at three o'clock A ball game on the common between TTR and Revere Rubber Co A Hold a boxing exhibition and a concert by Herreshotf Marine Band A Royal Band of Pall River performs a three o'clock concert on the common No go o'clock church bell ringing noted.
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Lou Noll
Bom
Sarah
Ob Smith
Yeoman
Humoreske
Somencu de Belline
OS Thornton
Rosco
Mian Baber
Herman Rosenberg
Priest Guedorg Yoode
Banyo Wang
Augustus
Burnside Memorial Building
Boy Scouts
Fair Ray
TTR
Revere Rubber Co
Herreshotf Marine Band
Royal Band of
Pall River
Evening clock band concerts at Belvedere and Pastime Theatre
The article lists evening clock band concerts on the veranda of the Belvedere Hotel and at the Pastime Theatre, featuring vaudeville and moving pictures for World War veterans and their ladies. Naval members for Work War Veterans are noted, with Bristol brass and other acts performing.
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Bristol
Belvedere
Frank McGrrady
Newport
Veranda
Naval
Twilight League game details with scattered names
In a Friday night twilight league contest, multiple players are listed with hits and bases, including Geo Pierce scoring and Nerone, Jo Garvin, Langelle Lee, and Cooper Guivermont contributing with hits and stolen bases. Pitchers Baker and Pierce show strikeout numbers, with Rice hit by pitch and Printing totaling five left on base.
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Jo Garvin
Langelle Lee
Cooper Guivermont
Nerone
Geo Pierce
Serbst Guivermont
Lee
Langelo
Pierce
Baker
Fruit A-tives End Long Nervous Sick Headache Sufferer
C E Beswick of Ogdensburg New York reports easing years of nervous headaches after using Fruit A-tives. She says dosage of Seidlitz powders and doctors failed until the remedy provided relief from day one. Fruit-A-Tives Limited advertises 50c box six for 2 50 with trial size 25c.
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Caroline Ave
Ogdensburg
N.Y
Fruit-A-Tives Limited
Ogdensbuys
No Friends Like Old Friends Quote Analysis
Quotation emphasizes enduring friendship over new esteem noting Johnson’s claim that twenty years of friendship is deeply woven into life while old friends are irreplaceable and cannot be easily lost. The passage contrasts fleeting praise with lasting personal bonds and cites Samuel Johnson.
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Samuel Johnson
How He Averages Up Collage of Trouble
Uncle Eben notes that the man cannot do work himself and generally averages up by causing trouble for others. The saying reflects a rural view of reliance on others and shirking labor.
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Uncle Eben
Rainfall Estimate Confirms Global Water Cycle Scale
An English scientist estimates the world’s total annual rainfall at 20 457 4 cubic miles, with less than a quarter draining through rivers back to the ocean. The figure highlights the vast scale of the global water cycle and the fate of precipitation.
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Eniish
First American Balloon Ascension Anniversary Note
January 9 marks the anniversary of the first balloon ascent in the United States. It occurred in Philadelphia in 1798, an event noted amid rapid recent advances in aeronautics.
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Philadelphia
Early Britons Used Coal Before Romans
Investigations show that Britons used coal before Roman occupation, drawing fuel from surface deposits. Progress was slow as only near surface coal could be exploited, delaying its widespread adoption for centuries.
Children’s Logic Outsmarts Adults in Odd Tales
A four year old believes the night wind is alive and a small boy imagines a great dark creature with a mouth and eyes, while another pupil asks about what darkness means. The whimsical exchanges reveal childlike interpretations of natural phenomena and imagination.
Shakespeare Language Craft Highlighted by Euphemistic Quip
A historical note observes Shakespeare shaping English with bold liberty as a clever play on phrases. It contrasts a misread peace pipe idea with his inventive usage showing his mastery of language.
Mountain Laurel as National Emblem Motive
The Nationale Federation of Women's Clubs urges mountain laurel as the national emblem citing its bloom on Memonat dey Flag day and the Fourth of July as proof of its patriotic symbolism.
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Nationale Federation of Women’s Clubs
Must Be Progression in Moral Law of the Universe
A compact quotation emphasizing progress as universal moral law. It argues that each generation must add to progress or be forgotten. the next generation will trample the ashes of inaction as dust, according to Mazini.
Mortgagee Sale of Bristol Property on Catherine and Prospect
Public auction on August 9 1919 at 12 noon under a deed of mortgage dated March 1 1889 from Ann Merry and Robert Perry to Edward Salisbury The property lies Bristol Rhode Island at the corner of Catherine and Prospect streets with bounds Prospect Street to the west 90 feet north to Patu k Me Was and wife 102 feet south to Edward Woods 90 feet and further described in the mortgage deed The administrator of the mortgagee intends to bid and comply with court order provisions recorded in Book 52 page 203 of Bristol land evidence records
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Ann Merry
Robert Perry
Bristol
Edward Salisbury
Town of
State of
Rhode
Catherine and
Prospect Streets
Prospect Street
Patiuk MeWas
Edward Woods
Atece Petre
Martha
Ann Clay
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Tilsworth Munro
Pown Council
Bristol War Welfare Commuunitte
Pocal Draft Board of Diy Net
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al Nordaquist Hall
Johnston R
McNameeth
Tor An
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Joseph Po
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Marshal Flearstoor
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Patsy Pate
Dra Corges
Hivclauher
Phelip Steam
Bri
Troops of
Boy Scouts of America
Sinth Division
Twilight Leagle
Warnima
Waite
Cotte
Iy Pierce
Baker Pp
Stewart
Stacett A
McCallum Ct
Hartley Ir
John Pierce
Ware
Prince Albert
P. A
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company
Winston-Salem
N. C
Fees Tobaces Ca
Talbot & Hopkins Electrical Contractors
Bradford Street
Talbot
W. S. W Hopkins
C. E. Beswick
MR. C. E. Beswick
New England
Henry P. Trudell
Npaelie
Tobin
Tohn Street
Ote van Sesstom van
Metnieariel
Martie
Rhode Island
State Board of Public Roads
Vollece
Bredge Contractors
Coventry Center
Coventry Gah Valley
Branchiver Bridge
Turrittville
Nuavatt Pridge Barrington
State House
Providence R i
Hhode Istana
Avedhibbe
Abram Tatwood
Rentamin
Booroinson
Frank Cole
Michal van Tet Een
Chenery Wootann
State Poet
Op Yy
Mountain Laurel
F. W. Perkins
Dorchester Mutual Fire Ins. Co
Boston
F. L Watson & CO
Industrial Trust Co
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G.W. Simmons
Undertakers
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LF Colwell
Constitution Street
G. M. Wilbur
Union Street
William W. Franklin & Co
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Providence Domestic Coke
John C. Trudell
Second ST
R. I. J. King & CO
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