Hay Stack Fire Threatens Mrs McKee's Barnyard Lot
Firefighters from Hydraulion and Ever Ready arrived as a hay stack on Griswold Avenue near Ferry Road burned briskly. About 1500 feet of hose supplied water while ladders opened the pile to reach the interior. The hay, valued at several hundred dollars, was the property of Mrs. W. L. McKee and rekindled at one o'clock this morning prompting renewed flames and a second extinguishing effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gormia
Griswold Avenue
Jof Ferry
Hydraulion
Ferry Road
W. L. McKee
Veterans Day reunion plans set for September 27
A Bristol committee organizes a reunion of Civil, Spanish and World War veterans on September 27 as part of a 250th anniversary celebration. Subcommittee reports, a Battery C armory gathering, parade, luncheon at one, and invitations to locals who served or were drafted.
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Belvedere
Bristol
Battery C
Church Street
Kellnye Athletics to Field New Players in Park Game
Kellnley Athletics will field several new players including L Mansi D Ambrosia P Marabello Salzano Chapmar Desilets Mott DeLeon Servant for a 3 p m game. Park Waeren hosts the event as four teams prepare for league standings. A manager meeting is set for tomorrow at 5 30 p m at the Bristol Y M C A.
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D'Ambrosia P
Marabello
Salzano
Chapmar_ ss
Desilets
Mott If
DeLeonf
Servant Rs
Warren
White Sox
Warren Town
Burr's Hill Park
Bristol Y. M. C. A. L His Acce
Bristol Colt High School reunion and banquet planned
The reunion committee for Bristol High and Colt High School graduates met at the Baldwins 692 Hope Street. A Providence caterer won the banquet contract. invitations will go to out of town graduates. The event, on Old Home Day, will be at Grand Army Hall with dinner served at 8 p.m.
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Bristol High
Colt High School
George H. Baldwin
Hope Street
Providence
Grand Army Hall
Agai
Postman William Leahy Celebrated for 25 Years of Rural Delivery
William N Leahy a noted rural carrier received flowers and wishes from Postmaster William M Connery and the office staff on completing 25 years of service since Aug 15 1905. He covers Ferry Hill Metacom Avenue Narrows Hope Street Neck Beach Terrace Bristol Highlands and Poppasquash. He now travels about 27 miles in summer and 25 in winter.
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William N. Leahy
William M. Connery
Mr. Leahy
Leahy
Ferry Hill
Metacom Avenue
Narrows
Hope Street
Neck
Beach Terrace
Bristol Highlands
William M Gorham
Edward F. Prest
Damiel G Coggeshall
George W Warren
Post Office
Mr Leahy
San Francisco quake of 1806 shifts coast fault lines
State earthquakes commission reports the 1806 San Francisco event produced displacement along a major fault, with permanent shifts of 10 to 20 feet in many areas. The fault line, known beforehand, intersects ridges and relates to uplift of the coast range rather than following a single trend.
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State
San Francisco
Coast Range
Temptation and self restraint in Tauler’s admonition
A brief quotation from John Tauler warns that immediate rejection of temptation is simple, but dwelling on it makes resistance hard. The text emphasizes disciplined listening and mental focus to prevent moral decline and preserve resolve.
Obsolete use of digit in astronomy explained
The Naval Observatory notes that digit from Latin digitus meant the twelfth part of the sun or moon's diameter and was used to indicate eclipse magnitude in the past but is now obsolete in this context.
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Naval Observatory
Defenders of Jerusalem Worthy of Their Race
The text recounts Titus son of Vespasian capturing Jerusalem after a long siege. Zion’s temple 被 destroyed by arson despite Titus’ efforts to spare it. Jewish defenders retreated across the Tyropoean gorge into ancient Davidic strongholds and resisted the Romans until the last man fell or was wounded.
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Titus
Vespasian
Rome
Jerusalem
Mount Zion
Herod
Zion and
Moriah
David
Diesel’s Discovery of the Internal Combustion Engine
During the last decade of the nineteenth century Dr. Rudolf Diesel of Leipzig developed an internal combustion engine using high compression. He proposed mixing fuel and air at the moment of power, enabling cheap oils to be used as fuel when injected into a heated, compressed air charge. He worked with manufacturers and produced an economical heat engine.
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Rudolf Diesel
Leipzig
Doctor Diesel
Non
Barley From Kish Unearthed In Mesopotamian Site Finds
Archaeologists from Chicago held museum and Oxford University excavations in 1928 report barley grains found in Kish ruins, described as the first city after the flood. Three jars of grain were recovered from two ancient buildings buried for millennia. One building lay just above flood traces dated around 3200 B C. The grain remains mostly charcoal.
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Saul
Chicago Held ‘Museum
Oxford University
Mesopotamia
Kish
United States Department of Agriculture
Left Driver Lamenting Amid Paris Barracks Prank
Soldiers of the American Expeditionary Force in Paris were ordered to be in barracks by midnight. One-lung taxicabs paused at the gate as three or more soldiers jumped out shouting for a bucket of paint, signaling sentinels to admit them and deny the driver.
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Paris
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Joy of Youthful Readers Marked by Prolific Edward Stratemeyer
A historical note highlights Edward Stratemeyer as a remarkably prolific juvenile author. Over about four decades he produced more than 600 juvenile books including the Old Glory series Soldiers of Fortune Putnam Hut Irontier Boys and biographies of notable men. He wrote under multiple pen names with various secretaries.
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Edward Stratemeyer
Putnam Hut
Irontier
History of Paper Making From China to Europe
The article traces paper making from early Chinese origins to its spread in the West. It notes usage in China in ancient times, introduction to Greece via Asia, Empress Irene’s usage near the 11th century, and the Moors establishing widespread paper in Spain in the 12th century.
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B. C
Greece
Asia
Irene
Europe
Spain
Larry Halfsnaggle seeks wife for $295 with radio plea
A cheeky note proclaims Larry Halfsnaggle of Brooklyn will marry any woman paying $295 to support his mother and father while he hopes for a wife who treats him right. He invites responses to Station D&C in New York City.
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John Gilbert
Larry Halfsnaggle
Brooklyn
Larry
D&c
New York City
Fragmented scientific and financial clippings mixed text
The passage mixes a dubious biology excerpt about Fern-sperms and proto plasm with a humorous financial advice note on stock purchases after a windshield injury. It references ears, scat ter proof Glass stock and suggests saving ears as lavalieres, reflecting inconsistent OCR content.
Protests Over Ergot Test Use by Government Agency
Howard W. Ambuster, New York importer, told the Senate Agriculture Committee roosters are trained by the Department of Agriculture FDA for the Cook's Comb Test to gauge ergot potency and purity. He charged the test yields good results for bad ergot and bad results for good ergot, allowing inferior ergot to enter the country, prompting protest from the National Roosters Association.
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Universal Service
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Food and Drug Administration
Howard W. Ambuster
New York
Senate Agriculture Committee
National
Roosters’ Association
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