Independence Day Parade Plan for Bristol 1933
The Fourth of July schedule in Bristol Rhode Island lists the U S S Manley arriving at 4 p m and a 2 30 p m ball game between Manley and Sunset Twilight league teams. A band concert runs 8 to 10 p m and a midnight bonfire follows. July 4 includes a 6 a m chime ring and a 10 a m parade assembling at 9 45 a m with detailed division lineups and marching order for police, military units, veterans, firemen, scouts, and Girl and Boy Scout groups along High Street and State Street to the viewing stand at State and High.
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U. S. S. Manley
N. C. Gillette
Trinity Church
Roswell C. Colt
L. H Callan
Mounted Staff
Colonial Coach
Fourth of
Daniel EF. Dwyer
Seventh Division WFE parade honors in Rhode Island event
A Rhode Island parade forms on State Street with divisions led by Col M A Cheesman and Lieut Bob Wall. The afternoon program features hose contests, a Boy Scouts rally, Twilight League ball game, patriotic exercises at Colt Memorial High School, water battles, boxing, and a band concert with notable speakers including Rev Milton J King and Francis B Condon.
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Wfe Munroe
Jesse H Metcalf
Antonio Prince
Babbitt Relief Corps
G A. R
U.S . Manley Grand Army
Francis B Condon
Milton J King
Mary Mason
Audrey C Munro
Singer
State Representatives
Daughters of American Revolution
S Wardwell
State Street
State St M.ef
Col M A Cheesman
Marshall
Bob Wall
High Street
Col . M Merriman
Court House
R. I
Boy Scouts of
Bristol County
Colt Memorial High School
Roswell D. Colt
Signs of graft and small town disputes in Bristol
A Bristol column reports graft allegations with a cow damage dispute rising from $3 to $5 after a neighbour raises the price. The note also mentions London Pay visitors, a medical student from Columbia University returning to begin Bellevue Hospital practice, and Bristol High School honor roll recipients. The Bristol Yacht Club prepares Commodore's Day with colors, a morning gun, and a luncheon with Mrs McKee.
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Hyman Yarlasavetsky
Yarlasavetsky
Harold DeWolf
H R DeWolf
Columbia University
New York
Bellevue Hospital
Tol Yacht Club
Commodore
Wm L. McKee
Aldrich
Seigniors of Quebec Aimed as Landed Gentry
The seigniors of Lower Canada formed the landed gentry under French rule. The king granted land in return for military service, with seigniors subletting to censitaires who paid one fourteenth of their grain. This feudal system created narrow riverfront farms and a village-like seigneurie that persisted until abolition in December 1854.
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Quebec
Canada
Lower Canada
New France
St. Lawrence
First Typewriter Born in Ilion Sparks Women’s Emancipation Tale
A Milwaukee printer Christopher Lathem Sholes and James Densmore in Ilion New York began work on the first typewriter in 1873 near the Remington Arms gunshop. The invention coincides with the Seneca Falls era and helped propel women into office work amid initial male resistance. The device and later the telephone drew public attention at the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. The office girl soon became a key workforce driver as women demonstrated dexterity with the new machine.
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Milwaukee
Christopher Lathem Sholes
Cleveland Plain Dealer
James Densmore
Ilion
N. Y
Remington Arms Company
Supreme Court Justices and Appointment Rules
The Supreme Court consists of nine justices including one chief justice and eight associate justices. They are appointed for life by the President and approved by the Senate.
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Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the
Unscientific Superstitions and Reassessing Old Tales
A columnist debunks common myths from the ostrich hiding its head to the belief that a rabbit foot brings luck. The piece argues many superstitions have faded as science and history correct misconceptions about animals and omens.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
United States
Nero
The Starting Point Most People Think Alike
The quote suggests that people share common thinking patterns but achieve different outcomes due to varying initial premises. It emphasizes the role of foundational assumptions in shaping results.
Woman recounts rise from contestant to film star across studios
In a reminiscence from a 1916 era, a young contestant wins a statewide pageant earning a San Francisco trip with Universal Film, then moves through Chicago and Hollywood. She recalls meeting Lois Weber, landing roles as an extra, and later securing contracts with Paralta, Famous Players-Lasky, and Warner Brothers, highlighting luck as a constant factor in her career.
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Ture
Pavlown
Miss Weber
Hollywood
Universal Studio
Lon Chaney
J. Warren Kerrigan
Indy
Mr Sherrigan
Nine Pictures
Sa Francisco
P Paralta Company
Mr Werrigan
Paralta
Famous Players-Lasky
Goddess of Luck
Lois Weber
Famous Slayers
Warner Brothers
WNU Service
Cowbirds and their nest parasitism observed
The text explains cowbirds abandoning grazing herds and moving on, while cowbirds lay eggs in other birds nests. Foster mothers raise cowbird young unknowingly, feeding them alongside their own offspring.
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Alto
Novarro to Sing Two Weeks at Empire Paris
Novarro plans a Paris engagement for two weeks at the Empire Theater after his film is finished. The Paris tour would occur in spring or early summer, subject to the actor's schedule. He is a Rex Ingram and Ferdinand Pinney Earle find and began his film career in 1922. He leads in fan mail and international popularity among male stars, rivaling Garbo in global interest.
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Novarro
Empire Theater
Paris
Ai Film
Rex Ingram
Ferdinand Pinney Earle
Clmb
Ladder
Fime
United States
Garbo
Meriwether Lewis Explorer and Northwest Passage Pioneer
Meriwether Lewis, famed American explorer, traveled with William Clark to source the Missouri River and became the first to reach the Pacific north of Mexico. Born 1774 near Charlottesville Virginia, he served in the Whisky Insurrection era militia and as Jefferson’s private secretary before leading Northwest exploration. He governed northern Louisiana Territory in 1807 and died near Nashville in 1800 under unsettled circumstances.
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Meriwether _Lewis
Wiliam Clark
Pacific Ocean
Mexico
Lewis
Charlottesville
Jefferson
Louisiana Territory
Nashville
Tenn
Pathfinder Magazine
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Bristol, R. I
Marshal Colt A Cheesman
U S S Manley
Tineut
A M Merriman
Bristol
F M. Straight
Kearney Post
Wm Gablinske
A Dubuc
Daniel G. Coggeshall
Lockanosset School Band Board of Fire Engineers
R. J. Anderson
Defiance Hose Co
R. S. Brightman
George R. Fish
Bugle & Drum Corps
Virgil Arruda
Boy Scouts of America
Bruno Vollaro
Wm A. Francis
Lawrence S. Ashton
Kearney Ship
O. Reid LeClair
Admiral
Abbott Sea Scouts
Warren Robert Hunt
Jolly Rogers
Sea Scouts
Riverside
George J . Lidstone
Warren Troop
Richard MacDougall
Warren
Bernard Stachowiar
Col
F. M. Straight
Marshal
D. G. Coggeshall
Bradford Street
W. E. Munro
Church Street
State
Hope
Church
High Streets
High
Union
Franklin
Francis
Condon
Defance
Fvel Ready Fire
Lockanosset School
Daniel F. Dwyer
Eorge R. Fish
John+ Stewart
James F Meiggs
Robert J Anderson
Anthony H Alfred
Arthur W Barrett
Anthony J Bruno
Everett Lee Church
Roswell Colt
George F Dion
Thomas M Duffy
William P Gladding
James F Head
George T Ingram
Fdward
F Leclerc
Domenic J Langello
Walter FF. Munroe
Edward Menard
Samuel Molaski
Carmine J Mariano
Joseph Jo Marshall
Joseph Marshall, Jr
John Joseph Anthony
Nunes
Joseph I Pannone
Joseph Quartaro
Samuel J Smith Jr
Fred Wilbur
Phoenix Files
A. Beresford
London
Pay
George TT French
Cottage Road
Bristol High School
Emma Flowers
Harriet E. Kirk
Emily G. Manchester
Anna M. Pearse
Elizabeth Peterson
Florence H. Potter
Mary B. Reynolds
Schyler Kirk
House Committee of the
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Big Rae
Lois
Wilson
Leminghaan
San Francisco
Universal Film Corporation
Los Angeles
Chicago
Philip Small
Lois Wilson
Pearse
Meriwether Lewis
Lanzite’s Express
Frank Lanzite
William A. Rego
Bay View Ave
E. W. Weaver
Augustus P. Duffy
W. W. Franklin & Co
Wood St
John C. Trudell
Pocahantas
C. A. Garvin
Burton St
Suzman
G. M. Wilbur
Constitution ST
Dorchester Mutual
Boston
E. L. Watson Co., Inc
Weybosset Street
Providence
R. L
Robert J. McKay
G. W. Sim
William Street
Tel
Mons
District Nursing Association
Hope Street
Martha Graham
Hope St
Misa Thyea Carlson
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