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Brown Drowns After Canoe Overturns In Harbor
Walter DeForest Brown secretary treasurer of the National India Rubber Co. drowns when his canoe overturns in icy harbor waters near Bristol. The event prompts rapid recovery efforts by local police, harbor masters, and naval divers. Brown, 48, of 83 State Street, Bristol, was an established bookkeeper and Y M C A sports leader whose death shocks his family and community.
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Walter DeForest Brown
Providence
Franklin Street
Poppa Squash
Thomas McCaughey
George Macomber
Marguerite Mudge
Brown
Seth Paull
Town Bridge
Allen Tattrie
State Street
Morriesey
LeBaron O. Colt
National India Rubber Company
Colt
Naval Training Station
Newport
John T. Ashton
Samuel D. Wardwell
J. H.wall
O. F. Herreshoff
Wharft
Wilbur
Walter DeForest “Brown
Rehoboth
Mass
Amanda Brown
Henry ‘Ti’ Horton
Bristol
Bryant & Stratton Commercial School
Brownell’ & Field
National India Rubber, Co
Providences
Edgewood
Martha Jones
Viola T. Brown
New England Conservatory of Music
Hustilers
Republican Town Committee
LeBaron O. Ooolt
Mr. Brown
The
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