Narragansett Electric Clambake Outing At Colt Farm
About 125 employees from the accounting and sales departments attended the annual company outing hosted by Edwin A. Barrows at the Colt farm Pappoosésquaw. Events included a 3-3 baseball tie, foot and potato races, and swimming with prizes of five and two and a half dollars in gold.
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Narragansett Electric Lighting Company
Rhode Island
Edwin A. Barrows
Colt Farm
Providence
Colt Estate
George Mosher
Squantum Club
C. K. Davis
Star Theatre Lineup With Warwick and Gish Features
Tonight at Star Theatre Robert Warwick stars in The Supreme Sacrifice in five acts. Also shown The Iron Claw with Pearl White and Creighton Hale. Dorothy Gish appears in Old Heidelberg on Wednesday. Feature films include Peg O’the Ring with Francis Ford and Grace Cunard and Stolen Magic starring Raymond Hitchcock Mabel Normand and Mac Sennett. Thursday brings Passers By with Charles Cherry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Warwick
Star Theatre
Pearl White
Creighton Hale
Dorothy Gish
Old Heidelberg
Miss Gish
Peg O’the Ring
Francis Ford
Grace Cunard
Raymond Hitchcock
Mabel Normand
Mac Sennett
Charles Cherry
Dr King's New Discovery Cold Remedy Ad
An old cough syrup advert promises relief for colds with Pine Tar antiseptic oils and balsams. It claims to ease coughing soothe the throat and bronchial tubes and clear the head. The copy urges keeping a bottle at home as cold insurance and notes it is sold by druggists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Cavalry Squadron Moves to Mexican Border Frontier
The Rhode Island Cavalry Squadron of 385 men and 15 officers left Davisville for El Paso on a 26 car train shortly before 8 PM. The unit travels with 60 horses and will join Connecticut and Massachusetts squadrons to form a New England regiment. Ambulance Company No. 1 also heads to El Paso to complete the Rhode Island contingent.
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Quonset Point
Davisville
Battery A
el Paso
Texas
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Massachusetts
New England
R. I
Tex
Wilson
Albania's Hunger Crisis Urges Albanian Relief Fund Appeal
A plea urges readers to aid Albania amid three years of sword, famine, and mass hunger. Ten thousand perish daily as emaciated women suffer. readers are asked to send funds, even small donations, to the Albanian Relief Fund at 70 Fifth Avenue, New York.
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Albania
Albanian Relief Fund
Fifth Avenue
New York
Rhode Island July crop report highlights lower corn output
The Rhode Island crop report from the Bureau of Crop Estimates shows July 1 forecasts for corn at 382000 bushels with last year at 516000. Oats forecast 62000 bushels vs 66000 prior year. potatoes 616000 vs 550000. apples 87000 barrels vs 59000 last year. Price averages on July 1 list corn 1.22, oats 0.60 and 0.50, potatoes 1.37 and 0.55, hay 25.50 and 23.90 per ton, eggs 0.31 and 0.27 per dozen.
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Rhode Island
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Weather Bureau
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Martelly and Pierce Wed at St Marys Church
Charles Martelly and Miss Margaret Madeline Pierce were married yesterday morning at St Marys Church. Rev Thomas J Gillan performed the ceremony with Miss Elizabeth Pierce as bridesmaid and George Pierce as best man. A wedding breakfast followed at the bride’s home, and the couple left for a wedding trip before settling in town.
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William J. Pierce
Constitution
Thames Streets
Bristol County Tennis Opens In Extreme Heat
In hot weather only one match was played at Excelsior Tennis Club as Warren player Lewis Hoar beat Charles F. Dimond Jr. 6-4 6-1. Several byes and defaults followed with matches and draws announced for men and women's singles and doubles.
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Bristol
Helen Morris
Wallis E. Howe
Helen W. Church
James F. Lavander
Mollie Hamill
W. G. Low
Naomi McGilton
Edith Trotter
Griswold Boynton
H. W. Church
Rev. C. E. McCoy
F. Reginald Dimond
Charles E. Tirrell
Rogers S. Farrally
W. M. Fischer
Benjamin F. Lindemuth
F. M. Dimond
Clarence Herreshoff
Henry Barton, Jr
N. G. Herreshoff, Jr
Charles W. Greene
Lavander—Morris
C. W. Greene
R. W. Nelson
W. E. Howe
C. E. McCoy
F. Mimond
T. P. Morris
Howe—McCoy
Dimond
Henry Barton
Greene
Nelson
Herreshoff
Y M C A Summer School Opens With Twenty Enrollees
The Y M C A Summer School opened with an enrollment of twenty pupils and invites others to join. The program emphasizes individual instruction, aiming to prepare students for the regular fall course. Summer membership includes hot and cold water baths for $2.00, with daily shower access and an option to salt water baths. Summer members who join in fall receive a credit for the amount paid.
Bristol Aerie of Eagles plans August Field Day and events
Bristol Aerie No 953 Fraternal Order of Eagles held a meeting approving one new member application. The State Field Day committee reports progress for Aug 17 with a Pawtucket parade and Crescent Park afternoon. The July 23 meeting of the field day committee, and Aug 6 outing at Prudence Island with boat transport, were announced.
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Bristol Aerie OF Eagles
Bristol Aerie
Order of Eagles
Aerie
Pawtucket
Crescent Park
Prudence Island
Indian Chief Rain-in-the-face to perform in Bristol
Chief Rain-in-the-face of the Sioux tribe will appear in Bristol as a guest of the First Bristol Troop of Rhode Island Boy Scouts. He will perform Indian stunts with local boys on State street corner this evening from 7 to 9 o'clock and sell souvenirs made by himself to educate himself and support travel expenses.
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Rain-in-the-face
Bristol
Rhode Island Boy Scouts
Oklahoma
Boy Scouts
State Street
Thomas C Silva Dies After Illness At 60
Thomas C Silva died last Friday at his home on 10 Second Street after months of illness. He was 60, born in the Western Islands, and had lived here nearly 25 years. A former worker at the National India Rubber Company, he is survived by a wife and children. The funeral from St Elizabeth's Church with a requiem mass by Rev A P Rebello. Interment in St Mary's Cemetery.
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Thomas C. Silva
Second Street
German U boat Deutschland reaches Chesapeake Bay with cargo
The 4000 mile unaccompanied voyage ended at Chesapeake Bay at 1 45 am Sunday as the Deutschland surfaced with 750 tons of dyestuffs and official mail. Captain Koenig described a fast Atlantic crossing evading Allied cruisers and confirmed cargo and mail aboard while asserting merchant status.
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Virginia Capes
Deutschland
Chesapeake Bay
Thomas F. Timmins
Fred Cocke
Virginia Pilots’ Association
Chesapeake
Baltimore
Koenig
Capes
Cape Henry Light
Timmins
Relief
Cocke
Bremerhaven
British Isles
Atlantic
Norfolk
United States
Germany
Kaiser
Wilson
Rhoderei
Bremen
Fifth District Court Boys in Court on Reveling Charge
Anthony Bevins pleaded guilty to reveling on the common in the Fifth District Court. Judge Hammill imposed a $10 fine and costs. Mary Sylvia was the complainant. In Warren, Petra faced larceny charges for a bicycle belonging to Arthur Jollie and pleaded not guilty. Moldena pleaded guilty to assaulting Georgiana Maldena and was fined $15 plus costs, with possible jail time if reoffended. Potito Cassano and Antonio Ruggieri cases on flour theft were continued one week. Manuel Madeiros Machado vs Virgino Castano was continued as well.
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Anthony Bevins
F. H. Hammill
Fifth District
Mary Sylvia
Narcisse Potra
Saverio Moldena
Warren
Petra
Robert Walsh
Arthur Jollie
Moldena
Georgiana Maldena
Potito Cassano
Antonio Ruggieri
Collins Street
Manuel Madeiros Machado
Virgino Castano
Intelligent motherhood and public health notes
The text asserts that intelligent motherhood preserves the nation’s best crop and links heavy eating and drinking to shorter life. It highlights the U. S. Public Health Service collaboration with state and local authorities to boost rural sanitation, notes the role of sickness registration, and implies infant mortality reflects community intelligence.
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U. S
Discipline for the Mind Quote Encourages Self Discipline
A succinct moral urges daily submission to small evils to gain a greater distant good. It says such discipline builds decision and energy, enabling the mind to win from defeat and gain honor from repulse, attributed to Colton.
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Colton
Auto Registrations List From State Board
Last week broad registrations logged at the State Board of Public Roads show Bristol entries for makes including Cadillac Ford Oldsmobile Saxon and overland with owners such as Charles B Rockwell John M Marshall Samuel Kinder Herbert M Howe Raymond P Smith Ezra Dixon Alfred M Merriman and Joseph Janson plus Warren and Barrington listings and several runabouts and touring cars.
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The
State Board of Public Roads
Charles B. Rockwell
Bristol
Cadillac
H. P. Touring
John M. Marshall
Stevens
H. P
Samuel O. Pare
Warren Wyert
Cyrug Barker
Warren
Chalmers
David = Miller
Overland
Henry W. Hopkins
Pierce-Arrow
Louis E. Covell
Barrington
Ford
Victor Frazee
Franklin M.eldredge
West Barrington
Bristol Man's Lucky Find in Kidney Relief
A Bristol worker, William H. Manchester of 10 Bourn Street, credits Dean's Kidney Pills with preventing backache and restoring mobility during heavy lifting. He claims three years of use without a single attack, and recommends Buffington's Pharmacy for purchase. Foster Milburn Co. Buffalo NY.
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Bristol
Wm. H. Manchester
Bourn St
Dean
Buffington
Mr. Manchester
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Goethe Quote Emphasizes Unified Human Faculties
A historical excerpt highlights Goethe urging that all human endeavors spring from the union of every faculty. The edict frames the ideal of integrated intellect guiding action, speech, and creation across pursuits.
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Goethe
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Sunshine
Shaw
Russell’s
Samaber
Foster
H. T. Peterson
Hope Street
Sagamore
Trinity Sunday School
Ferry Wharf
C. A. Johnson's
Hope Drug Co
Buffington’s Pharmacy
Rhode Island Crop Report
F. N. Easterbrooks
North German Lloyd Company
Neckar
Deutsche Ozean Rhederei
Great Britain
Imany
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company
Providence, R. I
Fifth District Court
Phenix
Philadelphia
Newman Bros
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