Bristol’s Union Church to Dedicate Island Building
The Union Church on Prudence Island will dedicate its newly completed building this Sunday at 9 15 am led by Rev. Herbert D. Graetz of the Bristol church. The event includes a mixed quartet and a Bristol reception with lunch or coffee, inviting Bristolians to attend and enjoy nature at the summer resort.
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Bristol
Prudente Island
Union Church
Et Poder Caetions
Herbert D. Graetz
Bristol Church
Congregational Church
Cora S. Anderson
Sydney A. Davidson
Prudence Island
James McCaughey
Warren
McCaughey
First Congregational Church
Prudence
Soldiers' Home Veterans Entertained by Rhode Island Relief Corps
The Women's Relief Corps Department of Rhode Island visited the Bristol Soldiers' Home on Wednesday to entertain the veterans. Civil War veteran William Collins, 92, sang "Long Long Trail" and "Keep the Home Fires Burning" to hearty applause. The program featured songs, readings, and addresses, with Mrs Bessie Boyle presiding and fruit and presents distributed to the veterans.
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Women's Relief Corps
Department of Rhode Island
Bristol
William Collins
Collins
Mary Curtis
Cora Remington
Grace Rotherham
Luella Byone
Mifinie FE. Boak
Mabel Thompson
Bessie Boyle
Tillie McKiver
Luella Boone
Edith Reynolds
Mary May
Lora 1
Smith
Local Police Adhere to Frugal Practices in Building Painters
The Burnside Memorial Building corridor is being painted by off duty Motor cycle Officer Euclid J Demers. Demers, a veteran painter from his time after serving in the late war, embodies the department-wide effort to economize within town funding.
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Wirth
Burnside Memorial
Euclid J Demers
Demers
Sam
Quartet Vocalists Plan Trip From State Street Wharf
The quartet includes Mrs W. 3H Colwell soprano Mrs F M Dimond contralto Mr F M Dimond tenor and Mr Enoch Marsden bass. The boat departs at 8 15 from State Street wharf to Prudence Island with expectations that the voyage will proceed as scheduled.
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State Street Wharf
Bristol
Battery C gains new help as baseball season moves forward
The LaFazia Drug nine sends in contracts for Johnny Notte Eddie La and Joe Gomes Ray Doyle Leo Sevignes joins Battery C bound for Fort Wright N Y for fifteen days with Sal and Charlie Burdge while Bennie Smus leaves N I R 1st base for U S Rubber. Auburn Post beats Warren 6 2 at Burrs Hill Park to lead the State American Legion Junior League playoff with Burke A A Providence Municipal Post and Warren in the race.
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LaFazia
Baseball Nine
Johnny Notte
Eddie la
Joe Gomes
Ray Doyle
Leo
Warren Post
Burrs’ Hill Park
Warren
Auburn Post
American Legion
Burke A. A
Providence
Rhode Island Riders Prepares for Eastern Championship Night
Rhode Island competes at Atlantic City New Jersey as the state opens its bike season at the Rhode Island Cyclodrome with a one hour motor paced race. Stars Georgetti Le tourneur Duesberg Jaeger Walthour and Spencer are slated to appear. The event was moved from July 10 to July 17 due to weather.
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R. I
Georgetti
Letourneur
France
Duesberg
Germany
Jaeger and Walthour
Newark
Spencer
Capitol Design and City Growth Refocused on West
Pathfinder Magazine notes the Capitol faces east toward the future growth of Washington, yet the city expanded mainly to the west and northwest, making the rear approach the common one.
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National Capitol
Capitol
Washington
Pathfinder Magazine
White House
Tassel Rule Varies by College for Degree Ceremonies
The Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume says tassels on mortar boards should be left for doctorates masters and bachelors. Some colleges issue local rulings allowing right side tassels until degree conferral when moved to the left. The matter is a local concern.
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Intercollegiate Bureau of Academic Costume
Mortar Board
Hotel Ponce de Leon Coquina Monolith Construction
The Hotel Ponce de Leon in St. Augustine used Hotel Building Coquina as its base material. Thousands of carloads of native rock were hauled, crushed, and mixed with cement to form a seamless composite. The hotel was cast as a single monolithic structure with no joints.
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Coquina
Ponce de Leon
St. Augustine
Carburetion Process and Water Vapor in Exhaust
Gas carburetion mixes one part fuel with fifteen parts air. The air provides oxygen which reacts with hydrogen in the fuel to form water. Water exits as vapor in the exhaust and may condense into droplets.
Neon light tubes and color effects in advertising history
The article traces neon as a gaseous conductor discovered by Ramsey aid around 1911 and notes its rise in commercial advertising. It explains how neon glows reddish yellow, how mercury shifts to blue, and how colors arise from mixing gases or colored glass tubes.
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Ramsey Aid
Dogwood Timber Routed from Arkansas Forests to England Shuttles
Dogwood timber from Arkansas mountain forests is shipped to England to be used in cloth weaving factories for shuttle production. Earlier Arkansas timber owners milled the wood into golf tees collar buttons and other small wooden items.
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Mountain
Arkansas
England
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Charles Aldrich
Salada Tea
Baker’s Cocoa
New England
Maine
Rumfrd's
Flounders
A&p
WEW England
Cam Uiecatian Landshire
Hope
BAC
Bennie Smus
Naugatuck
U S. Rubber Co
Municipal Post
Municipal
Rhode Island
Atlantic City
N J
Ferncroft
Malaga Grapes Rock Co
Cocoz
Light House Cleanser
Hamburg
Goldendale
Walter H. Moreton Corp
Boston
Dee Wite Runabouts
Richardson
Ace
WM. H. Bell, Inc
Hore Street
TEL
Aetenay
Nicholas Pirri
Usher Avenue
Main Street
E. A. Skinner
Hope St
Newman Bros
Swift
L. Tellaw Uorn
Canada
S. S. Pierce
Pierce
S.S. Pierce
Newman’s
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