New Books Add Life to Rogers Free Library Collection
Rogers Free Library announces arrivals for tomorrow including 50 new titles in youth and general fiction plus reference volumes. Highlights include The Catholic Encyclopaedia volume 17, How to Use the Bible by L Wendell Fifield, Gardining with Brains, American Individualism by Merbert Hoover, and The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page. Also added are biographies, travel and adventure works, and several new children’s and girls and boys books along with two foreign language volumes.
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Rogers Free Library
London Standard
L. Wendell Fifield
Catholic Encyclopaedia
Henry S. Finck
Merbert Hoover
Mary Owens Crowthers
Angelo Patri
Delietttal
Hon
Christopher Acy
Alice van Leer
Carrickeons
Caroline ‘Ticknor
Strachly
London Spectator
Enrico Caruso
Pierre Key
Margot Asquith
Jeffrey Farnel
James Oliver
Curwood
Alaska
Rex Beach
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Mr.Chesterton
Cappy Ricks
Peter B. Kyne
Eleanor Hallowell Porter
Ebecca
Sunnybrook Farm
Kate Douglass Wiggin
Trail of the Lonesome Pine
John Fox
Jean Ebster
Bookland
Hildegarde Hawthorne
Smith College
Josephine Dasham Bacon
Girl Scouts
Dandelion Camp
Adirondacks
Elsie Morley
Perrod
Booth Tarkington
Scientific American
Oyster Fleet
Boy Scouts
Crater Lake
Dick and
Larry
Hans Anderson
Lucy Fitch Perkins
Immense Demand for Needles Worldwide
Immense demand described as the world uses about 8 million needles daily. The report highlights steady consumption and the global reliance on needles across industries.
World hookworm menace threatens tropical development
Thrift Magazine notes hookworm infects about 900 million within a global population of 1.7 billion. As tropical lands face development pressure, control of hookworm joins malaria and sleeping sickness as a major international concern for health and productivity.
Film star pays bank with mixed payment slip
A recent film star deposited the first salary installment at a bank. On the paying‑in slip she wrote check and specie. Opposite the word specie she wrote female after a brief hesitation.
Population Statistics Across Western Nations
Holland ranks second to Belgium in dense settlement. Great Britain holds third with 889 people per square mile. Australia is the least populated with under two per square mile and about 5,434,000 inhabitants mainly along the coast. Canada averages 242 people per square mile.
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Holland
Belgium
Great Britain
Australia
Canada
Facts Worth Remembering Assertion on human worth
A reflective note urges humility by noting humanity thrives before each person and will continue after their death. It emphasizes that individual importance is limited within the broad arc of history. The aphorism invites readers to weigh personal significance against collective endurance.
Witly Ornaments Trace Love Through Medieval Keepsakes
An 1403 text lists three ornaments as a wife’s marks a ring for love, a brooch for purity, and a garland for happiness and wedded dignity, explaining the ring as a pledge of true love and the other pieces as symbols of virtue and sacred wedlock.
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Brest
Halt Kid Warning Flashed on Fifth Avenue
A Detroit News item notes an unusual roadside sign where instead of Stop a light four halted and displayed the command Halt, Kid on Fifth Avenue, illustrating a jazzy warning for drivers.
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Fifth Avenue
Detroit News
Be douin Love quote reflects gendered timing
A fragment from Arthur Weigall's Be douin Love contrasts male fumbling with a woman's precise sense of the moment. The quoted lines describe man as clumsy in seeking favor or offense while woman alone recognizes the perfect confluence of time place and person.
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Arthur Weigall
Call for a Decision on Divorce Over Dog Incident
A Chicago woman seeks a divorce claiming her husband threw the dog at her. The case raises a question about a husband’s control over his own property and rights within the marriage as reported by the Detroit News.
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Chicago
Detroit News
Old-Time Dances Triumph at American Legion National Convention
Thousands of Legionnaires approved a return to the Virginia reel waltz and minuet, praised by dancer promoter Schleppey who envisioned a Southern atmosphere. He prepared a grand night scene display and noted disdain for modern jazz.
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Virginia
American
Spanish Fort Park
American Legion
Prominent Hawaii Women Send Pajamas to Wounded Vets
Under Mrs Dorothy B Harper supervision, prominent Hawaii women including the governor’s wife and Marine barracks commandant’s wife produced pajamas for wounded U S veterans in hospitals. The effort titled Aloha from Hawaii reached American hospitals as a wartime relief gesture with items sent by auxiliary members in Hilo and elsewhere.
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Aloha
Hawaii
United States
Marine Barracks
Dorothy B. Harper
American Legion Auxiliary
Meuien
American Legion
U. & Marines
Hilo
At-The- Hospital
St. Cale
Fragmentary OCR Notes From Obscure Page
Incoherent lines reference American Legion weekly items and scattered names. OCR bleeds into broken phrases, making a clear event or person hard to identify. The readable bits hint at a periodical or community page with veteran and notice items but no concrete story.
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Gether
Population Statistics
The
Industrial Trust Company
Board OF Directors
Joshua M. Addeman
H. Martin Brown
Eben N. Littlefield
Ezra Dixon
Lyman B. Goff
Samuel M. Nicholson
James R. MacColl
Harold J. Gross
R. Livingston
Beechman
Joshua M. Abdeman
Florrimon M. Howe
Ward E. Smith
Walter S. Ballou
James M. Pendleton
Everett I. Rogers
Erling C. Ostby
John S. Holbrook
Edward H. Rathbun
Henry A. Hoffman
Alfred M. Coats
Edward B. Aldrich
Flerriman M. Howe
Frederic W. Howe
Walter F. Angell
Frederick L. Jenckes
Edgar J. Lownes
James H. Higgins
George L. Shepley
Harry Parsons Cross
Henry B. Congdon
Elmer F. Seabury
J. Cunliffe Bullock
William G. Roelker
Howard W. Fitz
W. Granville Meader
Foreign Department
Chester R. Martin
Harry C. Owen
Ellery Holbrook
Earl S. Crawford
Asst
George M. Parks
Paul C. Nicholson
Charles O. Read
Andrew E. Jencks
Herbert G. Beetle
Joseph B. McIntyre
Joseph W. Freeman
Howard J. Greene
Forrest W. Taylor
Nicholas E. Carr
William Metcalfe
Everett S. Hartwell
Clyde A. Rines
Carleton E. Taft
U.S. Government Securities
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Providence
Pawtucket
Newport
Member
Federal Reserve System
Woonsocket
Bristol
Pascoag Warren
East Providence Wickford
American Lexion News Service
Legionnaires
Jack
American’ Legion
Weekly Legion
Peru
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!