Syrian man attempts suicide by knife at sister's home
Joseph George a 47 year old Syrian slashed his abdomen with a common kitchen knife about 9 am Wednesday at his sister Mrs Mary Jamiel's home 45 State street. He was found by his niece in a back room and taken to Rhode Island Hospital in critical condition where doctors operated to replace the intestines. He has a wife and four children in Syria and had been despondent over work and lack of news from his family since the war began last July.
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Joseph George
Lfe
Mary Jamiel
State Street
Rhode Island Hospital
George
Eva Jamiel
O. R. Siegel
H. L. Teller
Rhode Island
Syria
Mary Jamal
Miss Mary George
Charles George
National India Rubber Company
Durfee High Wins 22 to 19 Over Colts in YMCA Game
Two close basketball games at the YM Cc. A gym last night drew a large crowd. Durfee High School of Fall River defeated the Colts 22 to 19 with Webb scoring six baskets for the Colts. In the second game Freeman's Central Falls team beat the YMCA 28 to 26 after a 14 to 12 halftime lead for the YMCA and a late basket by Central Falls.
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Ymcc
Durfee High School
Fall
Central Falls Boys
MCA
E. Murphy
Goddard
W Bottomley
Marshall
H. Murphy
Murphy
Central Falls
Freeman
Swafheld
Dennison
Crowell
Mellin
Edgehill Temple Pythian Sisters Installs Officers
Officers-elect of Edgehill Temple No. 3 Pythian Sisters were installed in G A R Hall by Grand Chief Mrs Elizabeth Ward with assistance from District Deputy Grand Senior Mrs Ellen Cadby and Grand Manager Mrs Emma Tomlinson. New officers include Most Excellent Chief Mrs Zilpha Gould and others. A chicken chowder supper followed.
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Edgehill Temple
Pythian
G. A. R. Hall
Elizabeth Ward
Ellen Cadby
Emma Tomlinson
Providence
Ellen Johnson
Zilpha Gould
Bessie Brownell
Mabel Connery
Alice Alexander
Mary J. Hill
Grace Dunbar
Elizabeth Peterson
Mary Numann
Grand Lodge
Gould
Sadie Marshall
Pastime Tonight Shows War Film Then Civil War Story
At the Pastime theater tonight the European battlefields film will be shown with a lecturer describing scenes. Saturday night continuous program includes The Little Rebel Civil War story and features Tom Moore in His Inspiration The White Pirate and other films.
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Europe
Tom Moore
Star Theatre Preview Showcases A Mix Of Plays And Films
Tonight at the Star Theatre the program includes The Master Key and Our Mutual Girl, The Wife's Stratagem, a Biograph feature, and two comedies Her Incompetent Hero and setting to the Ball Game. Saturday offers The Great Mexican War feature Across the Border, the drama Another Chance, the Western comedy Small Pox on the Circle U, and more.
Installation Ceremonies For Local I O O F And Ladies
Officers of Wampanoag Encampment No 9 I O O F were installed at Odd Fellows Hall with District Deputy Grand Patriarch Abram Sidebottom presiding. Bristol Hive No 11 Ladies of the Maccabees held its first annual public installation in Grand Army Hall with Anna Walker officiating and a post-installation program of music dancing and refreshments.
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Wampanoag
Bristol Hive
Ladies of the Maccabees
Odd Fellows Hall
Abram J. Sidebottom
Pawtucket
Providence
Warren
John H. Bailey, Jr
Asa W. Hathaway
P. H. P. Merton A. Cheesman
Fred Marz
Bertram W. Wall
Merton A Cheesman
John G. Stewart
James A Bosworth
John Usher, Jr
George R Fish
John H Bailey, Jr
William J. Fish
Charles W. Herrmann
William P. Gladding
Inside Sentinel
Charles Sanford
Outside Sentinel
Dewitt E. Bolster
Charles EF. West
Samuel Molasky
Ladies of the Maccabees of the World
Grand Army Hall
Uniform Bank of Providence
Anna L. A Walker
Katherine Walker
Lottie Borders
Perry
Marguerite Tucker
Central Falls
Mr. Dillon
Althea Wright
Galley
Beatrice McCaughey
Sadie Jackson
Sadie Marshall
Mary Perry
Alice Alden
Gladys Hambly
K of C Bristol Council Social Meeting Highlights
The Bristol Council No 379 Knights of Columbus held a well attended social evening in K of C Hall. An orchestra performed with William H. Sisson on violin Reuben S. Dunn on piano John F. Dunn on cornet and George P. Sisson on saxophone. Brother Fred Reardon of Delaney Council Pawtucket delivered monologues and impersonations Ambrose Desilets sang and Judge F H Hammill spoke on Legislative Procedure. An oyster supper followed.
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Bristol Council
Knights of Columbus
K. of C. Hall
William H. Sisson
Reuben S. Dunn
John F. Dunn
George P. Sisson
Fred Reardon
Delaney Council of
Pawtucket
Ambrose Desilets
F H. Hammill
Houses of Representatives
Funeral for Giovanni Moreno in City Church
The funeral for Giovanni Moreno who died of pneumonia Tuesday morning was held from his Goular t avenue home yesterday morning. At 9 o clock the body went to St Mary's Church for a requiem mass by Rev Fr T J Gillan the pastor. Interment followed at St Mary's Cemetery with many floral pieces.
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Giovanni Moreno
Goulart Avenue
St. Mary’s Church
T. J. Gillan
St Mary’s Cemetery
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Providence Telephone Co
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Star Theatre
Bob Leonard
Ella Hall
Biograph Drama
Keystone Comedy
Pastime Theatre
Mr Stetson
Glee Club
K. of C. Social Meeting
Industrial Trust Company
Bristol
Ezra Dixon
John B. Herreshoff
Parmenas Skinner, JR
Eber Hill
Nathaniel G. Herreshoff
J. Howard Manchester
WM. Fred Williams
Charles H. Church
Samuel P. Colt
H. Martin Brown
Charles B. Rockwell
Clinton T. Sherman
Russell S. Church
Labaron C. Colt
Edward D. Kunz
Shell
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State St
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