Kearney Post Plans Membership Drive and Meetings
The Kearney Post urges Bristol ex service men to join next year. A membership committee will meet early next week at A A Edmonds's office. The social committee includes Elmer Maxfield, Thomas Hickey and Eber W Hill. The Relief Committee to be appointed January 3, 1930, at the G A R hall. James T Pierce, Commander.
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Kearney Post
Post
Bristol
A. A. Edmonds
Elmer Maxfield
Thomas Hickey
Eber W. Hill
G. A. R. Hall
B . Wall
State Street M E Church Services and Events
The State Street M E Church schedules a New Year themed morning service at 10:45 with a special pastor message and music. The Church School meets after the service. Epworth League devotional at 6:45 followed by a 7:30 Union Service at the Congregational Church under Men's Brotherhood with Dr E E Wells of Providence as speaker and District Superintendent of the Providence District of the M E Church.
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Robert John Chrystie
Epworth League
Men's Brotherhood
Congregational Church
E E Wells
Providence
Methodist Episcopal Church
New England
Donations to Children's Home Acknowledged for November and December
Thanksgiving dinner items and fruit baskets are listed for the Children's Home. Donors include Mrs T C Barrows, Mrs Samuel Kinder, the Beginners' Class of Methodist Church School with Miss Ethel Blaisdell, Congregational Club, Mrs IL Bosworth, and the Christian Endeavor Society of First Congregational Church.
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T C Barrows
Samuel Kinder
Methodist Church School
Ethel Blaisdell
Congregational Club
IL Bosworth
Christian Endeavor Society
First Congregational Church
Rockwell
Levy
East Providence Native Dies After Long Residence in Town
W. Oliver W. Cole, longtime resident of East Providence who later moved to the city, died at his Orchard street home on Christmas Day in his 80th year. He spent years in town working for Henry R. Manchester on Thames street and leaves a wife Julia Falvey, three daughters, and one son.
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Er Terry Oliver W. Cole Liver
W. Gole
East Providence
Orchard Street
Henry R. Manchester
Thames Street
Cole
Julia Falvey
Oliver McClure Dies. Rites Held at St Marys Bristol
Funeral services for Oliver McClure were held this morning at St Marys church Bristol after he died suddenly at his High street home Tuesday evening. Interment followed in St Marys cemetery. He leaves a daughter Mrs Georgianna A MacMillan a son Henry McClure nine grandchildren and a widow who died in 1920. He came to Bristol from Quebec around 1881 and worked in the calendering department of the National India Rubber Co before retiring five years ago. He was a member of Circle Jacques Cartier of Warren. He was about 66.
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Oliver McClure
High Street
St. Mary's Church
St Mary's Cemetery
A. M. Merriman
McClure
Bristol
Quebc Canada
National India Rubber Co
Georgianna
MacMillan
William K MacMillan
Henry McClure
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Co
Franklin Street
Town
Fall River
Jacques Cartier
Warren
Mynumber Please Girls Enjoy Annual Christmas Party
The New England Telephone and Telegraph Co Court Street hosts its annual Christmas party for central exchange operators and their guests. Santa Claus is expected, with a lively program planned to ensure no disruption to company operations or Sergio TV ICg officials.
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New England Telephone and Telegraph Co
Court Street
Central’ Exchange
Santa Claus
Setv Icg
Unclear OCR fragment about a woman driver and Atlanta context
Fragmentary text mentions a woman and driving, with jumbled wording and no clear event, date, or identifiable names to verify. No coherent news item or outcome is discernible from the readable portion.
Holiday Guests At Local Addresses And Related Visits
Holiday guests filled many Providence and nearby homes as families hosted relatives from Boston, New Haven, Hartford, and New York. Names include Mrs Harold I June and Miss Marguerite June visiting Mrs Lemaire. Rev Anthony Parshley’s relatives. Mrs Ellen F Johnson and Mrs Celia Watts with Rev Parshley. and others at addresses on Cottage Street, Hope Street, Constitution Drive, and First School Street. Several visits extended over Christmas and New Year’s, with locals from Pawtucket, Central Falls, and Woonsocket noted among the gatherings.
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Edmund Lemaire
Cottage Street
Harold I. June
Marguerite June
Byrd
June
Lemaire
Eugene V Hughes
Edward V. Hughes
Pawtucket
Providence
Owen Hughes
Franklin Street
Joseph Farrara
New Haven
Conn
Frank Santo
Congregational Street
Ellen F Johnson
Hartford
Celia Watts
New York City
Anthony R. Parshley
St Michael's Church
Parshley
George E. Benard
Miriam Benard
George Briggs
Ruth Briggs
Albert FF Benard
Hope Street
P Chrystie
Jamie
Mabel Christa
Stadsbug
Ruth
Mildred Sweet
Central Falls
Robert Jo Chrystie
Harold Caldwell
Barbara
Sirs Caldwell
A P Nerone
Everett: Kinsley
Concord
N. H
P H Morris
KO OA Osterberg
Central Street
Richard Wiberg
Brighton
Mass
D Pettine
Lucius Meserve
Hope Valles
Amasa Whilliston
Constitution Street
Antonio D'’Angelo
Bristol
Zotaire Tetu
Woonsocket
Hugh F. Kelley, Jr
Somerville
William L. Coggeshall
Cambridge
Mary Kellkev
Provincetown
Hugh F Kelley
St Byfield Street
Kelley
Coming Events Month Calendar at Kellken and Lincoln Halls
Readable items list Saturday dances at Ba vaarcadens Hall Woods Street Kellken Five and Bristol Town basketball games on Dec 28 and Jan 4. New Years Eve Ball at Armory on Dec 31. January events include Mt Hopes Chapter No 23 meeting and various social dances. Also mentions Farr of Pver Ready Engine Hose Co No 2 and annual Washington Ball of Artillery at State Armory Church Street.
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Bavaarcadens Hall
Woods Street
Kellken
Bristol Town
Armory
Church Street
Farr
Pver Ready Engine & Hose Co No
A R Hall
State Armory
Mince Meat Pie Variations From JOSEPHINE B GIBSON
Old fashioned mince meat recipes with pie crust tips and variations by JOSEPHINE B GIBSON Director Home Economics H J Heinz. Includes mince meat pies turnovers tarts and cookies with instructions for crust filling and baking and options like apple meringue for a festive boost.
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Josephine B Gibson
H. J. Heinz Company
Discovery of Anesthesia and antiseptic progress in war surgery
The piece notes the vital shift from primitive Civil War surgery to modern antiseptic and anesthetic methods. It credits Pasteur and Sister techniques for reducing infection and saving lives, highlighting a drop in infection deaths from World War I versus Civil War, and stresses the impact on treating gunshot wounds.
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Sister and Pasteur
Frederick Arottle
Thievn
City Grafters Skilled in Makeup and Acting
A New York Sun account describes a middle aged woman asking for help at Times Square Station. She pretends distress to solicit a dime from a sympathetic passerby while another passerby watches and assists, revealing how con artists use staged concern to target strangers.
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New York
Times Square Station
the Inquirer
New York Sun
Boomerang A railroad man, a joke with eggs
A railroad engineer plans a prank on his wife by buying buzzard eggs from a boy in a town. Months later he learns the eggs were for turkeys, which his wife had placed in his lunch, believing birds were late. The quip appears in Forbes Magazine.
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Forbes Magazine
Quitting at the Start a Fishing Tale with Presidents
The Kansas City Star recounts a tale told by actor W H H Crane about a day of fishing with President Cleveland and Joseph Jefferson. They fished all day without a catch until six o clock when Cleveland finally landed a trout. Jefferson urged going home, remarking on their late bite, prompting Cleveland to retort that they had fished all day and now the bite starts.
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Crane
Cleveland
Joseph Jefferson
Jefferson
Kansas City Star
Giant leaved water lily reportedly grows record fast
A giant leaved water lily from Japan and China, related to Victoria regia, may hold the world's leaf growth speed record. It expands its four foot floating leaves in under nine days and widens by about a half inch per hour, producing 15 to 24 square inches of leaf each hour.
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Japan
China
Nature
South American
Whistler’s monocle slides during lecture
Rollo Walter Brown describes Whistler in Lonely Americans as both artist and performer. During an informal lecture his monocle slipped onto the floor and dust. a dozen students scrambled to retrieve it, but he calmly produced a new monocle and continued.
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Whistler
Rollo Walter Brown
Why is a ship called she in modern slang
A college coed quips that ships are called she because they are so hard to repair but the joke contrasts with an older answer that ships have rigging. The fragment humor reflects changing language and gender stereotypes in an age of scant attire.
Contouring the Jaw Line with Home Arm Lifts
Simple at home routine uses the heel of the hand to lift the jaw line from chin to ear. Begin with cleansing and tissue cream, then massage upward along the jaw and neck to stimulate muscles and oils, repeating until a warm tingling sensation signals firming progress.
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Geritei
Monte Carlo Bank Attempt Ends With Thief Capture
Bareness Grower became one of Monte Carlo's notable winners by cashing in twice in one evening. As she walked to the restaurant a thief grabbed her throat from behind. Detectives later traced three thieves and found the baroness's winnings hidden in a man’s stocking.
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Monte Carlo
Mmn
Sweet potato grower faces heavy annual losses
The Washington Star notes that sweet potato growers suffer about 40 percent crop losses yearly from over twenty plant diseases. Damages occur in fields, during transport, and at markets as tubers are easily wounded, allowing infections to enter through broken stems.
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Washington Star
Strain Is Right in Family Fronts Wears On Local Shops
A Daily Herald note discusses the burden on stores that must maintain appearances for families in trouble, highlighting social pressure, financial strain, and reputational risk faced by small businesses in the community.
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Ruti and
Daily Herald
Linguistic echoes in old English and borrowed terms
The Kansas City Times notes that some English words retain traces of ancient roots such as to tramp over wet ground and to follow a track. It also explains Arabic via Spanish and French origins for words like cotton gazelle giraffe masquerade shup tambering and the alchemist term testa from Latin.
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Europe
Kansas City Times
Waste Natural Gas Sparks Bureau of Mines Efforts
The Bureau of Mines seeks methods to convert abundant wasted natural gas into saleable products like methanol ammonia and formaldehyde for economical transport to markets. Local constraints prevent piping gas to oil sands for reformation into new gas, causing significant waste.
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Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Heresy and private opinion debate noted
Fragment discusses labeling approval as private opinion and opposing view as heresy, with emphasis on the meaning of terms and contention over what constitutes opinion versus heresy. It reflects rhetoric on authority and orthodoxy without clear factual events or names.
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Children’s Home
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Colonial Co
Taimers State
Doris Hale
DuBarry Beauty
Newman Bros
Swift
Newman
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