Roses Will Bloom Again and a Senator's Worries
A Christmas season reminiscence from The Watchman Examiner recalls a man named Big Bill recovering with hope after a doctor’s line Roses will bloom again. The piece contrasts hospital room optimism with Senator White’s concern over Congress and the failed Industrial Congress amid national tensions.
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Santa Claus
Salvation Army
Big Bill
Malthus
Earth
Bill
Miss McDonald
Senator White
Joe Cannon
Congress
School site chosen for Elizabeth Ward well Guieral School
A unanimous School Committee selects the Perry homestead on Hope Street at Silver Creek as the site for the Elizabeth Ward well Guieral School. The five acre parcel north of the Town bridge will host a junior high building while the old Bosworth house remains landmarked. Superintendent Hobbs may hire an extra teacher for February freshman class at Colt Memorial High School.
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James DeWolf Perry
Hope Street
Silver Creek
Elizabeth Wardwell Guieral
Colt Memorial High School
Joseph Poja
Henry W. Boynton
Perry Homestead
Benjamin M. MacDougall
Perry Place
Main Road
Bristol
Nathaniel Bosworth
William C. Hobbs
Bristol Women in Siberia Thank Bristol for War Service Honors
Two Bristol Red Cross nurses Margaret D McCaughey and Annie McCaughey write from Verkne Udinsk Siberia dated November 10 1919 to Joseph F Farrally secretary War Welfare Committee Bristol thanking Bristol for souvenir programs and war service medals they could not forward due to mail delays expressing pride in representing their home town during the war
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Bristol
Russia
Red Cross
McCaughey
American Red Cross Commission of
Siberia
Verkne Udinsk
Joseph F. Farrally
War Welfare Committee
Mr. Farrally
Margaret D McCaughey
Annie
Red Cross Nurses
Bristol Y M C A to Hold Open House for World War Vets
The Bristol Y M C A will host a Welcome Home Reception for local World War I veterans at the association building next Wednesday evening. From 7:30 to midnight a varied program includes the Doric Male Quartet, moving pictures, readings by Mrs. Hazel Brown Goodwin, banjo solos, a basketball game Y M C A versus N I R Co, plus orchestral music and refreshments. Judge Frank E. Fitzsimmons will speak as collector of the port of Providence.
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Bristol Young Men’s Christian Association
World War Veterans of Bristol
Association
Doric
Hazel Brown Goodwin
Frank E. Fitzsimmons
Port of Providence
Factory foremen head to annual convention in Boston
Heads of departments of the National India Rubber Company totaling 94, including foremen and foreladies, depart Sunday afternoon at 5 20 on the train to attend the annual convention of foremen of the shoe division factories of United State Rubber Company in Boston. Bristol delegation stays at Quincy House. A Tuesday banquet at Copley Plaza will host 800 attendees. National India Rubber Company group returns next Wednesday evening.
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National India Rubber Company
United State Rubber Company
Boston
Bristol
Quincy House
Copley Plaza
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Beaver Board
Adnwell
Wardwell Lumber CO
Bristol, R. I
Connery
F. T. Remieres
Hope and
Bradford Streets
Charlie
Charlie Chaplin
Paramount Artcraft
Fox News
Matt and
Jeff
Harold Lloyd
Paramount Picture
Marguerite Clark
Marvin Taylor
Burton Holmes Travelogue
Paramount Pictograph
Samuel Macauley Lindsay
Watchman Examiner
New York
Perry
Guileras Memorial School
Paramount News
Star Theatre
Ares
Paramount
Artcraft
Wallace Reid
FOX Sunshine
Anita King
Corrine Griffith
Antonio Moreno
Triangle
Olive Thomas
Elmo the Mighty
L. Ko. Comedy
BIG
Dorothy Dalton
Charles Ray
Louise Glaum
Edward D. Kunz
Soncan
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