Twilight League Showdown Set Between Olympians and Defiance
The Olympians meet Defiance in a key twilight league game on Thursday. D'Ambrosio beat Foxy Marshall 5 4 in the first skirmish while top hitters Biancuzzo Bottomley Marshall and Head pace the lineup. Mancini to call plays at 5 45 PM with Langello officiating.
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James
Larney Bisbane
Olympian
Getcheil
Olympians
D'Ambrosia
Foxy Marshall
Bill Bottomley
Doc Murphy
Firemen
Brightman
Jimmy Garvin
Biancuzzo
Marshall
Menard
Perry
Her
Herzig
Oliver
Salzano
Head
Velleca
Garvin
Leclerc
Mansi
Witherill
McGrath
DeLeo
D’ambrosio
Caizzi
Geisler
Cappucci
Maturi
Corham
Caruso
Erasmo Mancini
Domenick Langello
James B. Lee
Minneapolis Fashion Ordinance Targets Females in Trousers
A historic Minneapolis ordinance from 1877 bans women from wearing masculine trousers in public places. It prohibits appearing in a state of oudity or in attire not belonging to one’s sex on streets or exposed city areas.
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Minneapolis
Minn
J. M. Koch
High soot price blamed on poorly adjusted furnaces
The annual dative cost of soot reaches 15 dollars per inhabitant in the United States due to inefficiently set up furnaces.
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United States
Pick Up film adaptation by Schulberg stars Sidney and Raft
Based on Vina Delmar’s Red Book Magazine story, the Paramount production follows Sylvia Sidney and George Raft as city street youths drawn together. Sylvia’s criminal husband haunts them, seeking revenge after an annulment clears her path to happiness. Raft offers shelter and love, while social and economic forces test their bond.
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Vina Delmar
Red Book
B. P. Schulberg
Paramount
Sylvia Sidney
George Raft
Miss Delmar
Sylvia
Raft
Origins of the Boy Scouts of America
The Boy Scout movement began in the British Isles led by Baden-Powell. In the U S a 1900 Woodcraft Indians and Dan Beard led Sons of Daniel Boone merged into the Boy Scouts of America in 1910. The goal is non military, interdenominational and non political.
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Boy Scouts of America
Boy Scout
British Isles
Robert S. S. Baden-Powell
United States
Ernest Seton-Thompson
Woodcraft Indians
Dan Beard
Sons of
Daniel Boone
Baden-Powell
England
Napoleon Memento Finds $200 in Paris Letter
A letter from Napoleon Bonaparte's mother to her son was recently found in Paris and sold for $200, highlighting a historic artifact of Napoleonic era provenance.
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Napoleon
Paris
School committee may vote on Rew:scHook plan
The superintendent will base his recommendation on teacher growth and classroom quality with summer school or extension courses. A new English course for the high school was adopted. A $40 appropriation funds reroofing at Mason school and repairs at Byfield school. Mt Hope Chapter Order Eastern Star gets Colt Memorial Auditorium for annual reception on Sept 20.
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Mason School
Fred W. Macauley
Byfield
Grabert and Dunbar
Fred W Macauley
Mt. Hope
Order
Eastern Star
Colt Memorial
Council President Proposes N I R A Projects
The council president submits projects for the N I R A program with emphasis on the Wood Street extension to boost labor and ease strain on the Public Aid Department. The continuation notes rapid progress and the choice reflects employment needs and infrastructural relief.
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Wood Street
Department of Public Aid
Rural Free Delivery Expands Across States by 1897
The plan proposed by Postmaster General Wanamaker in 1891 received congressional consent after two years for three experimental routes launched in 1893. By 1896 nine months later 82 routes were operating in 29 states nationwide.
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Wanamaker
Congress
West Virginia
Global myopia affects one fifth of adults, study says
Collier's Magazine notes that about 241 million people, roughly 20 percent of the world’s adult population, are nearsighted. The finding highlights widespread vision impairment and the need for eye care access.
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Coll'er'e Magazine
Designers Bind Sleepless Minds to Nighttime Patterns
A confusing OCR fragment hints at insomnia themed design work in an Indian context. The text mentions a black fine and peculiar patterns affecting sufferers, but the readable portion offers no clear event, person, organization, or date to anchor a fuller summary.
Quartaro's Single Wins It For Bristol Townies
Bernie Quartaro delivered a late single in the fifth inning driving in Almeida as Bristol Town Team edged Rhode Island Silent Club 7 to 6 on the common. Jimmy McGrath started for Bristol with Securo finishing as pitcher. Totero robbed Nuts Lemaire of a homer in the field.
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Bernie Quartaro
Almeida
Kid Hope
Bristol Town
Rhode Island Silent Club
Johnnie Joseph
Pip” Securo
Colt High Star
Quartaro
Manuel Borges
Jimmy McGrath
Securo
Providence
Paul Bruno
Souza
Whitey Mello
McGrath
Totero
Lemaire
Engine and Hose Company
Bristol Train of Artillery Baseball
Olympian Club
Johnny Josephs
Johnny Andrade
Jackie Marsden
Fivemen
Louis Rinaldi
Borges
Contenello
Cohen
Speck
Mans
F. Sholes
Mansi
Sholes
Sepck
Andrade
Bristol
Silent Club
Josephs Langello
Gallo
Lee
Ab Ab
Bruno
Rinaldi
D'Angelo
C. m
Mello
P Almeida
X Almeida
Marsden
R. Sholes
C. Rf Silvia
S. Sholes
P Doran
C¢ Speck
P c zEthier
Josephs
B. T
Ever
Draft testing with cigar smoke in boilers and chimneys
Popular Mechanics describes using cigar smoke in a glass tube gauge to test draft and pressure in boilers furnaces chimneys and air ducts. The test method involves blowing smoke into the gauge and inserting the opposite end into the duct to observe a dividing line between air and smoke for calibrations and readings without calculations.
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Popular Mechanics
Macau Claimed World’s Densest Population Center
The World Almanac lists Macau China as the most densely populated area. Macau is a four square mile island at the Canton river mouth, a Portuguese colonial possession. The 1927 census counted 157 176 residents, yielding about 39 294 per square mile.
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Macau
China
Canton River
Portugal
Afacao
Napoleons Marie Louise and Her Lives in Exile
After Napoleon was sent to St Helena, Marie Louise took her son to Austria and later, after Napoleon's 1821 death, married her chamberlain Count Neipperg in a morganatic union. Neipperg died in 1829, four years later she wed his successor as chamberlain Count Bombelles. She died December 14, 1847, in Vienna. Her son the king of Rome lived in Vienna as Duke of Reichstadt and died at twenty one in 1832.
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Marie Louise
Napoleon
St. Helena
Emperor of
Austria
Count Neipperg
Count Bombelles
Vienna
King of
Rome
Duke of
Reichstadt
Postage Stamps End Collecting Mail In US History
United States postage stamps were authorized by an 1847 act and sold in New York on July 1 1847. The 1 cent Franklin and 10 cent Washington stamps prepaid readers mail and replaced collect on delivery. Sir Newland Hill influenced prepaid postage, mirroring Britain where the first stamps appeared May 1 1840.
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United States
New York
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Newland Hil
Great Britain
The Pepper Tree’s Gracious Weeping Foliage
The pepper tree displays lacy fern like foliage that droops gracefully. It grows to 40 to 50 feet tall with a spread of 60 to 70 feet and a trunk diameter of two to four feet.
Library shelves show broad 1932 readings and prizes
Non fiction titles include Marie Antoinette by Stephert Zwieg and In My End Is My Beginning by Maurice Baring. Biographies, history, science works and a large fiction list with The Best Short Stories of 1932 edited by Edward OBrien. This month four girls books five for boys and five for children.
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Marie Antoinette
Stephert Zwieg
Maurice Baring
Mary Queen of Scots
Rhoda Low
Wellington
Philip Guedella
Grover Cleveland
Allan Nevins
Nora Waln
China
James Jeanson
ITI
James Truslow Adams
Victor Perrard
William White
Christopher Morley
Amos
W. B. Maxwell
A M.&. Hutchinson
Edward O’brien
Katherine Newton Burt
Atlantic Coast
Temple Bailey
Phyllis Bentley
Jennie Wren
E. H. Young
Somerset Maugham
Frederick Nebel
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Flemming Stone
Catherine Wells
Meriweather
K. C. Strahan
Aan
Vickers
Ingenious Revolving Urn Was World's First Movie
The article notes Emperor Ch'ien Lung's reign from 1735 to 1795 and describes his revolving vases. A cylinder inside twirls when the cover is twisted, allowing viewing through outer openings to see the internal scene. It suggests these vases may be the first moving pictures.
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Ch'ien Lung
China
Celestial Empire
Spencer Kingman
Asia
Rattlesnakes Held Sacred in Navajo Beliefs
Rattlesnakes are revered by Navajo Indians as sacred intermediaries to the underworld gods. They are described as literal go betweens carrying prayers to deities in droughts and harvest failures. Disrespect to the snakes could render prayers useless.
Windmill Origins and Early Use Revealed
An ancient concept used since very early times underlies windmill devices. The modern windmill emerged in practice by the Twelfth century, showing long historical development of wind powered energy.
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Walter Trumbull
Louis McHenry Howe
Tennis
Mary Heely
Hugh 8. Johnson
N.R.A
Washington, D. C
Will F. Caton
Goeben
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Swoboda
Racine
Wis
Feir
Good Housekeeping
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H. Gladue
M. Mansi
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Sousa
Duarte
D’angelo
Balk
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Mancini and
Langello
B. T. A. Trims
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Carlton B. Hill
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