Miami Beach winter rush fuels oceanfront boom
Capt. Halsey Chase reports Miami and southern Florida enjoy a record tourist season with new mammoth hotels and apartment houses filled for weeks ahead. The piece describes vibrant attendances at Bay Front Park concerts, a busy Biscayne Bay scene with yachting regattas, aviation attempts, and rapid Florida development including Hollywood harbor expansion and citrus-based health claims.
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Halsey Chase
Miami
Fla
The
Phoenix
Florida
South Florida
Shakespeare
Biscayne Bay
Keys
Carrbbean Islands
Walham Ho Vanderbilt
Fishers Island
Ocean
Gulf Stream
Edgewood Patron Praises Laundry News Letter
Mrs Rosella Flamming of 192 Smith Street Edgewood sends in a $1 winning letter praising Laundry News. She lauds improved facilities for quicker, sanitarier cleaning and more time for home and children.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rosella Flamming
Smith = street
Edgewood
Man Considers Girl and Housework Insight
A husband, absorbed in work, realizes his wife’s hard labor after she falls ill with grippe. To help, he tries washing and discovers the toil involved. He vows she should never endure such drudgery again. The girl he leaves behind each Monday handles pleas anter duties and What Cheer attends to the washing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Grippe
Secret Starch Origins From Flanders to English Fashion
An 16th century tale traces starch use to Flanders with Queen Elizabeth’s court adopting stiffened ruffs. A Flemish teacher Frau Vandh Plasse established a London starch school in 1564, making the niche famous and profitable. What Cheer Laundry now uses a special starch blend to keep clothes smart after ironing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Flanders
England
Elizabeth
Guilham
Royal Household
Frau Vandh Plasse
London
Cranston Woman Wins With Wet Wash Service Letter
Mrs H P Goff of Cranston writes about a $1 prize for news items and praises What Cheer laundry's Wet Wash Department. She claims three years of laundry service with no loss and satisfactory What Cheer service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. P. Goff
Cranston
Laundry News
Goff
Fifth District Court Dockets Three Cases
Judge Hammill presided as three docketed matters continued or decided. Met Life Insurance Co vs Chester Conlon for embezzlement of 63.80 in Bristol, bail 500 continued two weeks. Joan Hudson vs Albert Hudson non support, case continued one week. Charles A Johnson vs Manuel Sousa default judgment awarded 25.30 to plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fifth District
Frank H Hammill
Metropolian Life Insurance Company
Chester Conlon
Bristol
Joan Hudson
Albert Hudson
Thames Street
Charles A Johnson
Manuel Sousa
Stovepipe In France Proclaimed Strong and Durable
A report describes the stovepipe as iron and several times thicker than American pipe, praised for lasting a lifetime and suitable for use in France.
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France
Mothers with School Children Need Extra Help on Mondays
What Cheer offers a wash day service to suit every family requirement and is especially helpful to women with school children. Let What Cheer give you extra hours on washday.
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What Cheer
Guests at Musicale and Tea Tour What Cheer Laundry
Visitors at a recent musicale and tea in the What Cheer Laundry recreation room could inspect the new modern facility and observe how clothes are washed. Workers wore clean white uniforms and the club noted guests are welcome to tour the laundry.
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What Cheer Laundry
What Cheer Handles Washing of Overalls and Jumpers
What Cheer claims to take great pains with laundry including overalls and jumpers. It notes that for women, such items are the hardest to wash, but asserts there is little need to wash at home since What Cheer can do it best.
Anniversary Observed by Corthell Family in Lorain
Mr and Mrs James H Corthell of this town marked their 69th wedding anniversary at the home of their son and daughter in Lorain Ohio. The Tiverton RI wedding in 1859 connected two families including Mrs Alice Herreshoff of Interlaken and a 14 pound fruit cake from a late son-in-law.
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James H. Corthell
L. I. Corthell
Lorain
Ohio
James H Corthell
L . Cortell
Sixth Street
Tiverton
Florida
Alice Hereshoff
Interlaken
Herreshoff
Cortell
Boston
James
Charlotte
Arthur B. Corthell
Corthell
George J Magner
L. I. Cortell
Martha Mosely
R. H. Lanius
C. J. Tiffany
H. P Humbert
Helen Gonnerman
L. B. Scott
Funeral Services for Lous Mark Brunelli Held at Mount Carmel
Funeral services were held for Lous Mark Brunelli who died last Wednesday with an 8:30 a m service at his home 697 Hope Street followed by a 9:00 a m high mass at the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Relatives from New Haven Providence and this town attended The mass officers were identified. Funeral services for Americo Soares Perretra a former resident who died in Jersey City will be held at 9:00 a m tomorrow at St Elizabeths Church He is survived by his mother Sister Mary in the Holy Rosary Convent and three half brothers Manuel Francis and Joseph Canario of this town.
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Lous Mark Brunelli
Hope Street
Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
New Haven
Providence
Americo Soares Perretra
Jersey City
St. Elizabeth's Church
Pereira
Francisco Canario
First Street
Mary
Holy Rosary
Covidence
Manuel, Francis
Joseph Canario
Obituary Notice for George Quinn and Peter Taco
Celebrant Rev Joseph Poja pastor Rev Thomas J Kelly curate Rev Francis J Gomes curate bearers include son in laws Thomas Coulucci Salvatore Coppolino John Cosentino Louis Te burial held at St Marys Cemetery with deacon and church clergy listed.
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Joseph Poja
Thomas J. Kelly
St. Mary's Church
Francis J. Gomes
St. Elizabeth's Church
Thomas Coulucci
Salvatore Coppolino
John Cosentino
Louis Te
Deceas
George Quinn
Peter Taco
St. Mary's Cemetery
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Miami River
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Lindbergh
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Ponce de Leon
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Ena
Cranston ST
Providence Sunday Journal
Fifth District Court
Studebaker
Atlantic City Speedway
Studebeker
High Street Garage
Fittl Robert Meska
Newman Bros
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LA Touraine
Edison
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