Scout Week Schedule Planned by Local Troops
Plans for an observance week by the Boy Scouts begin Monday with a public rally in Grand Army Hall. Activities include demonstrations, campfire, songs, and booths. Other events feature a Tuesday Recruit Day party, a Wednesday Veteran’s Day dinner for Deputy Commissioner George R Fish, a Thursday Anniversary Day dance, Troop 1’s 15th anniversary Friday, and Saturday Citizenship Day with a morning exercise in front of the Burnside Memorial building. Memorial Day services wrap up Sunday with cemetery graves decoration and church services. The arranging committee includes Scout Master William A Francis and committee members Merton A Cheeseman Fred M Straght John Ruggiere and others.
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Grand Army Hall
Boy Scouts
Trinity Parish House
George R. Fish
Trinity Parish Hall
Scout
John Holmes
Collegian Orchestra
J. Harold Wiliams
Providence
Burnside Memorial Building
George R Fish
North Cemetery
William A Fran
Merton A Cheesman
Fred M Straght
John Ruggiero
John T Ashton
Edgar K Davis
Oscar P Herzig
P L Paul Clark
Wilam West
Charles Pendleton
Anthony Joseph
Marriages Recorded in Fall River Warren Area
Announcements report weddings of Phyllis Kingsley Thomson to George Kershaw Rogers in Fall River Massachusetts with a Miami Bermuda wedding trip and gifts from Stone Webster. Also Ava Rose Renaud wed Ernest Ho Asselin Jr in Warren Massachusetts with a church ceremony at St John’s Church Warren.
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Phyllis Kingsley Thomson
Madison Street
Fall River
George Kershaw Rogers
Howard W Church
Franklin Street
Albert C Thomas
First Baptist Church
Charles W. Martin
State Street
William Ho Thomson
Church
Miami
Cuba
Bermuda
Stone & Webster
William Harley Thomson
Revi W .Ringsley
Mof
Mt Holyoke College
University of Cincinnati
Mountaup Pclectric Company
Somerset Station
Ava Rose Renaud
Alfred Renaud
Warren
St Johns Church
Ernest Ho Asselin Jr
Trmest Ho Asselin
Ot Warren
Dnvide Jo Plasse
Claire Assebn
Joseph Andrade
Wood Street
Warren Paice Doradde
Warren Telephone Exchange
Administration Notice Estate of Pauline Opitz
The Probate Court of Bristol Town admits Pauline Opitz will to probate and qualifies her executrix Annie Brelsford, with bond as required. Creditors must file claims with the Bristol clerk starting December 23, 1927. notice dated December 19, 1927. John W. Church, Clerk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pauline Opitz
Bristol
John W. Church
Annie Brelsford
Hold to Paganism in Indian Beliefs Distorted by Outsiders
A National Geographic Society bulletin summarizes Indian religious beliefs as varied and practical, noting no single Great Spirit. It describes many spirits animating nature, magic by medicine men, belief in a continuing soul, and rites born from fear of hostile natural forces.
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United States
Board of Indian Commissioners
National Geographic Society
Society
Silk Hosiery Sparks Trend Shift in 1925 Fashion
The Path finder Magazine notes a move from cotton stockings to silk as skirts shorten. About 3,000,000 fewer cotton pairs were produced in 1925, while silk hose rose in demand. exhibition of knees fuels more silk leg coverings.
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Sava
Pathfinder Magazine
Bubble blowing shows claims of beauty for German girls
German girls claim bubble blowing as a healthful activity linked to beauty. The article notes wind instrument players are healthy and suggests blowing bubbles could similarly improve facial contours like cheeks and neck.
Picture Writing Goes Far Back in History
The piece traces the evolution of written communication from picture writing to alphabets, then telegraph dots and dashes, to telephones, and finally a new method for transmitting entire messages with one operation. It notes ongoing progress toward nearly instantaneous visual transmission of messages.
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David Sarnoff
Radio Corporation ‘of America
Danger in Depilatories Risks From Hair Removal Chemicals
University of Illinois doctors warn depilatories can cause serious harm. In rabbits, large skin exposure to barium sulfide paste led to death, likely from hydrogen sulfide gas formed in the breath, indicating danger to humans with extensive use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H A MecGuigan
H N Ets
University of Ilinois Medical School
First American Jade Expected to Enter Market
A German chemist in Seattle, Joseph Reusz, reports finding jade deposits in eastern Oregon. He claims all shades of green exist and dates the discovery to ancient mining by anonymous miners. The find allegedly sits behind a cave barrier near an open hillside cavern.
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Oregon
Joseph Reusz
Seattle
Christian Science Monitor
Reusz
Tiny but Tremendous Atoms From Cappers Weekly
The article explains that atoms are made of electrons and protons, with electricity moving as electrons. It notes electrons are extremely small and that if charged particles lined up side by side they would stretch across vast distances, though no one has seen an individual electron.
Vacations With Pay as Employee Benefit
An analysis from Forbes Magazine argues that paid vacations for daily wage workers boost health and reduce turnover. It notes workers value paid time off as a rare privilege and that many have their first paid vacation experience, highlighting the broader appeal beyond mere inducement.
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Forbes Magazine
Centenarian Singer Celebrates 100th Birthday in Glasgow
David Smith of Gilchristow marked his centenary with a party in his honor. He sang four verses of a Glasgow song from his youth, tracing lineage to the sixteenth century. His army father dis charged after Waterloo eloped with a baronet’s Yorkshire daughter. Smith lives with his granddaughter, belongs to Old Glasgow club, enjoys current affairs, and remains in good health with many friends.
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David Smith
Cgilastow
Glasgow
Waterloo
Smith
Old Glasgow Club
State Board of Public Roads plats for Warren Bristol area
Describes land taken by Rhode Island State Board of Public Roads along Metacom Avenue between Warren and Bristol. Includes Plat No. 210 and 219 details, center line references, stake points, and highway rights of way for the 1927 survey and subsequent modifications with references to statutes and filings.
New Year Religious Services and Dances Planned
Religious services mark the old year’s end with a 7:30 pm Thanksgiving service at St. Elizabeth’s Church in Providence led by Rev. Francisco G. Vieira. A 10:00 am high mass Sunday will feature the Holy Name Society. Knights of Columbus dances occur at Bristol Casino State Armory and KC Home with music by the Knights Orchestra and Earl Shean’s Band. Soldiers Home attendees honored New Year’s Day by Spanish American War Veterans Rhode Island department.
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St. Elizabeth’s
Francisco G. Vieira
Holy Name Society
Knights of Columbus
Bristol Casino
State
Church Street
Knights of Columbus Orchestra
State Armory
Battery C
243Rd Coast Artillery
H. C
Earl Shean
Soldiers Home
Department of Spanish- American War Veterans
Department of Rhode Island
Adam’s Size Sparks Chuckle From Farm and Fireside
A light quip notes Adam as a small man and jokes about his size given the era’s tall man idea. The Newark Star-Eagle and Farm and Fireside share the humorous line about Adam being diminutive and wonder why he was not named Atom.
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Mollie Cule
The
Newark Star- Eagle
Adam
Atom
Land description on Metacom and Homestead Avenues in Bristol Warren
The document details a land description beginning at a point opposite a center line point at Sta 295 00 and 295 81, relating to stone walls along the easterly highway line of Metacom Avenue and the southerly highway line of Homestead Avenue. It notes accompanying Plat No 210 and records with the Bristol and Warren Town Clerks on November 28, 1927, by the Rhode Island State Board of Public Roads.
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Warren
Bristol
Metacom Avenue
Warren-Bristol
Child Street
Rhode@ Island
of Rhode Island
State Board of Public Reads
General Assembly
State Board of Public Brend
Rhode Island
Recorder of Deeds
Bristol, Warren- Metacom Avenue
State Board of Public Roads
Methcom Avenue
Stacy
Wala
Pont Berg
Metacon Avenue
Atment Gatd
Alan Aard
Westerls Hiehwas
Metaceam Avenue
Westerls
Aed
Alan Aird Pont Berg
Metacam
Aaid Cetter
Shaw
Metacom Awa Nue
Sta
Heine
Eartetin Highway
Metacom Avene
Regine
Harris Avenue
Sta. 295
Homestead Avenue
Rhode Island State Board OF Public Roads
ABRAM
L. Atwood
John W Hanley
Joseph P Burlingame
Wellington
R. State Board of Public Roads
Mortgagee Sale of Bristol Property at Public Auction
Mortgagee will sell at public auction on December 31 1927 at 1 p m on premises in Bristol described as Fox Hill property Eugene LeClair and Mark A DeWolf estates bounding Charles Street McCarty Avenue and Fox Hall Avenue. Parcel formerly deeded to Touisa de Costa Mendes and Manuel De Costa Mendes. Attorney William Horranty for mortgagee. Providence Rhode Island notice of bid.
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Touisa de Costa Mendes
Manuel de Costa Mendes
Bristol
Charles Street
Mark A. DeWolf
Eugene LeClair
McCarty Avenue
Anid Avenue
Fox Hall Avenue
Fox — Hill
W Perrys
Peter McKiernan
Hugene TeClair
William
Wetboqaet
Providence R
Providence
Estate of William H. Munro Administratrix Named
Eleanor R B Munro of Bristol has qualified as Administratrix of the estate of William H Munro also known as William H Monro, late of Bristol. Creditors must file claims within the time required by law beginning December 23, 1927.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William H. Munro
William H. Monro
Eleanor RB Munro
Bristol
William H Munro
William H Monro
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Renald
Ening Macett
Rae
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Bristol, Se
Town of
County of
Mount Hope Bridge Company
M. P. No
Portsmouth
General Assembly of
Superior Court of
Nathaniel W. Smith
Fdward IL
Leahy Norman Staber Commissioners
Rse
SAP Urs
Disena Nursing
Teeghite
Bas
Mias Mart
Moye Penn
Mish Thyra Carlson
Hope Sty Tel
Amos
Gorham
Charles M. Connery
Burton St
Archie H. Rounds
Tel. Con
Union Street
Providence, RI
Piclhurst Ave
Westerly, Works, Oak Str
Isaac B. Munro
Garfield Avenue
A.R. Depasquale & Bro
E. W. Weaver
High Street
Augustus P. Duffy
W. W. Franklin & Co
Moxie
Hanley’s
Morris Bros
Thames Street
B. I
Gansett
Robert J. McKay
G. W. Simmons
William Street
Dorchester Mutual Fire Ins. Co
Boston
E. L. Watson & CO
Pee
Weybosset Street
Lanzire’s Express
Frank Lanzire
Freeborn
R. Cole
William A. Doran
Bay View Ave
O. M. Bailey
Johns-Manville
Collins Street
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