Bristol District Nursing Association Elects Officers
Miss Julia A. Herreshoff presided at the annual Bristol District Nursing Association meeting held Friday at the association headquarters. Officers for the new year were elected: President Miss Julia A. Herreshoff, Vice President Wallis E. Howe, Secretary Miss Evelyn M. Carter, Treasurer John Robinson, Auditor Robert J. Mnery. The group, incorporated last July after its February 1923 founding, heard reports from district nurses Martha Graham and Thyra Carlson and urged the Town Council to seek a $1500 town budget appropriation at the upcoming financial town meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julia A. Herreshoff
Bristolistrict, Nursing Association, Inc
State Street
Wallis E. Howe
Evelyn M. Carter
John Robinson
Robert J. Mnery
Martha Graham
Thyra Carlson
Scungio D Amore Couple Wed in Mount Carmel Church
Miss Maria Joha DAmore of 14 Shaws Lane wed Ferdinando Scungio of 518 Plainfield Street Providence in a Saturday dawn ceremony at the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Rev Joseph Poja officiated the nuptial mass as Dora Ruggiero sang Ave Maria. The couple will reside at 518 Plainfield Street Providence after a reception at the groom’s home. Relatives from New York Hartford Warren and the local area attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maria Joha D’amore
Shaw's Lane
Ferdinando Scungio
Plainfield Street
Providence
Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Joseph Poja
Dora Ruggiero
James Saviano
James Savino
New York
Hartford
Warren
Philadelphia
Scungie
State Championship Showdown Looms Between Olympians and Pawtucket Club
The Olympians meet the undefeated Pawtucket Boys Club in a state championship tilt at seven thirty with strong contenders on both sides. Pawtucket includes Crosby Towner and Joseph Freeman among others, while the Olympians draw Pereira brothers and Moura for a fast paced defensive battle. The Pawtucket seconds will open the program with the Y Triangles game as a preliminary.
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Siske
Alie Meyer
Calry ‘ CA
Pawtucket Boys
Pawtucket
Si Galahads
Newport
Crosby Towner
Pawtucket High
Framingham High
Joseph Freeman
Central Falls High
Moses Brown School
Ed. Freeman
Williams
Brown University
Louis Farber
Brown Iron Eleven
Gildea
Jang Ceftter
Messier
Holmes
Elston
Beech
Keough
Olympians
Pereira Brothers
Foxy Marshall
Moura
Silvia
Sousa
Nunes
Perry
Monroe
Pawtucket Boys’ Club
Y’ Triangles
Ferreira Castro nuptials at St Elizabeth's Church
Miss Amelia Castro and Constantine Ferreira were married yesterday at 9 am in St Elizabeth's Church. Rev Francisca G Vieira officiated the mass. Attendants included Adelina Valante and Vasco Castro, the bride's brother, as best man.
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Amelia Castro
Constantine Ferreira
St Elizabeth's Church
Francisca G. Vieira
Adelina Valante
Vasco Castro
Babbitt Woman's Relief Corps Holds Friday Meeting
The Babbitt Woman's Relief Corps met Friday evening in Grand Army Hall after the business session. Favorable action was taken on several candidate admissions and the patriotic instructor reported visits to public schools. Lincoln Birthday songs were sung and two readings given, as the Walter Wigtail flag patrol rehearsed for an exhibition drill at the Soldiers Home with Arnold Woman's Relief Corps Providence to participate.
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Ea Mnet
ee _ Babbitt Woman's Relief Corps
Army ‘Hall
Lincoln
Flag of the Free
Luella Byone
Addie E. Gate
Walter Wigtail
Soldiers
Arnold Woman's
Providence
Burnside Lodge Knights of Pythias to Host Education Night
Burnside Lodge No 34 Knights of Pythias will hold a get together at Grand Army Hall with Edgehill Temple No 3 Pythia Sisters as guests A spherical program will be followed by dancing A business session is set for 730 PM Tuesday Feb 22 with Bertram W Wall National Executive Committeeman of the American Legion delivering the address The event is open to the public.
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National Executive
Bertram W. Wall
The
American Legion
Mystic Circle notes and plans for social and basketball
The Mystic Circle met last Wednesday in the YMCA library and discussed business. Two new members were received and one rejected. A Chum Social is planned for tomorrow evening with all members urged to attend. The Mystic Five seeks basketball games and teams should contact Manager Bowen at the YMCA.
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Mystic Circle
YMCA
Mystic Five
Bowen
Pineapple Teas and Delicate Pastries Brighten Afternoon
A nostalgic guide to elevating the tea hour with pineapple dishes. It praises English tea customs, suggests muffins tarts and marmalade with Hawaiian pineapple, and offers recipes for Pineapple Tea Muffins Paradise Marmalade Waikiki Fruit Tarts and Pineapple Cream Puffs with step by step ingredients and methods.
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Ince
Boston Harbor
Ocean
Gemstones and their global origins in ancient lore
The article details color and sources for gems and minerals. It covers diamonds from India Brazil and South Africa noting water clear stones with blue green and yellow varieties. It discusses rubies from Burma Ceylon Mandalay Afghanistan Siam and Australia with mine locations. It notes sapphires from Burma Ceylon Borneo Australia Europe and Brazil. Emeralds from Colombia India New South Wales Serbia and Egypt with Cleopatra era mines. Aquamarine from Ural Russia and Brazil. Morganite from Madagascar named after Inter FE Morgan.
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Pneces Ain Jeweler
India
Brazil
South Africa
Burmah
Victoria and Albert Museum
South Kensington
Burma
Ceylon
Mandalay
Afghanistan
Siam
Australia
Borneo
Europe
Rhine Valley
Colombia
South America
New South Wales
Serbia
Egypt
Cleopatra’s
Mexico
Ural Mountains
Russia
Madagascar
England
Natural Elistory Museum
Alaska Hospital Ship Offers Summer Medical Aid to Natives
A well equipped hospital ship will visit isolated Alaska native communities along the Yukon and its tributaries from the Canadian border to St Michael during the summer. Emergency treatment is available, a competent physician will lead, and the service extends education efforts across remote posts, aided by Interior Department and Alaska division plans despite no recent congressional appropriation.
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Yukon
Canadian
St Michael
Alaska
Bureau of Education
Interior Department
Poaching Punished by Mountain Tradition in Tyrol
In Italian Tyrol a medieval taboo forbids cross village dating. Young men who court girls from other villages are beaten or killed. Franz Belwercher of Gals was found injured on a country road after courting an Otlon girl. police arrested the assailants defying the custom.
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South ‘Tyrol
Franz Belwercher
Gals
Otlon
Sweet golf course at Milam Beach promises world class greens
A local golf course at Milam Beach plans to use 100000 pounds of Cu ban raw sugar as fertilizer to improve greens and fairways. With sugar bought for 144 cents a pound, the course builder intends to apply most of the shipment across greens and fairways, and possibly to trees and shrubs on four courses.
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Milam Beach
Everglades
Untitled Desk Chronicle From The Herald Tribune
A busy office hums with clicking typewriters and buzzing voices except the department manager who worries aloud about substitutes. A prank call interrupts with a dramatic line referring to hitting a horse delivering a sharp wartime style quip from the New York Herald Tribune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald- Tribune
Silly quips and headlines circulate in early 20th century papers
A collage of brief jokes and social quips from multiple papers noting political sarcasm and cultural commentary. Items reference Nicaragua China Mexico and domestic politics with a tongue in cheek tone and playful wordplay.
Coming Events In February 1925 Lodge and Club Activities
A dense list of social events spans February including the Four of Lodge Princess Helen No 476 in Academy Hall Wood Street on Feb 12, a Grand Minstrel Entertainment by Bristol Council No 379 Knights of Columbus Feb 14 15 at Pastime Theatre, chicken salad supper at State Street Methodist Church Feb 17, a Grand Army Hall dance Feb 1 8 postponed, a second annual military ball Feb 28 at State Armory, a Dutch supper Feb 24 and various meetings and dances at Rockwell Hall and Armory under Mite Hope Chapter and Phi Theta Landa No 4 Pethian Sisters with dates through March 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lodge Princess Helen
Order Sons of Italy
Academy Hall
Woodstreet
Bristol Council No
Knights of Columbus
State Street Methodist Church
Fpworth Teague
Proper Book Handling and Dusting Guidelines
The guide warns against patching shelves and notes books should be slightly loose for easy removal. It advises avoiding dusting tops to prevent dirt rubbing into page edges and suggests clapping books gently to shake dust. If edges are soiled, pumice powder may remove marks, but damp cloths are not recommended for gilt edged volumes.
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Patc
Antique mortars show at New York College of Pharmacy
A loan collection of antique mortars was exhibited at the New York College of Pharmacy with a total value of 25000 dollars. The priciest piece was Jet's marble mortar once owned by tenor Tniece Caruse, purchased from J Pierpont Morgan. In London a sale of 30 bronze and bell metal mortars fetched high prices from several bidders, toping at 27 pounds for an eleven inch piece inscribed Thomnas Castle Edward Neale made me 1657.
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New York College of Pharmacy
Wilson
Tniece Caruse
J Pierpont Morgan
Ryan
London
Thomnas Castle
Edward Neale
Early Egyptian Turquoise Mines in Sinai Inscribed Cliffs
The earliest mining operations in record are by the Egyptians at turquoise mines in the Sinai Peninsula. Sandstone cliffs bear a well preserved pictorial record of these early mining activities.
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Sinai Peninsula
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Constitution ST
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Tel. Con
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Dorchester Mutual Fire Ins. Co
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