Bristol Chapter Restores Old East Burial Ground
Rhode Island State Regent Mrs. George H. Fowler notes Bristol Chapter restored the Old East Burial Ground where fifteen Revolutionary soldiers and several town founders are buried. The Continental Congress report highlights this chapter’s outstanding state work.
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Bristol
National Society “of the Daughters of the American Revolution
George H. Fowler
Rhode Island
Old East Burial Ground
American Legion Post 6 Holds August Meeting at GAR Hall
The regular monthly meeting of Kearney Post No 6 American Legion will be on Friday evening August 1 at 8 o'clock in GAR Hall. All members are urged to attend as important matters will be discussed. The Auxiliary Unit No 6 также meets Friday at 8 o'clock in the same hall to finalize plans for State Convention on August 14 and address other important items.
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Kearney
American Legion Auxiliary
G A. R. Hall
Providence pair files marriage intentions
Angelo Gnacchi of Providence and Miss Mary Saposita of this town. Anthony Martin Myer of Providence and Miss Mary Angles Morris of this town file intentions to wed.
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Angelo Gnacchi
Providence
Mary Saposita
Anthony Martin Myer
Mary Angles Morris
Stone Hammer Society Train Hidatsa Boys in Night Thefts
Misa Densmore of the Smithsonian reports on the Stone Hammer society among Hidatsa boys in North Dakota. The group trained youths in stealth and theft with strict rules, raiding at night and announcing planned thefts before sunset. They recovered goods by arranging gifts for victims the following night.
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Stone Hammer Society
Misa Erances Densmore
Smithsonian Institution
Bureau of American Ethnology
North Dakota
Miss Densmore
Stone Hammer
Wind as legal scapegoat in construction cases
A court case explores wind as an act of God defense for a wall that rose in the afternoon and fell at night. The weather bureau was asked to provide evidence, revealing issues in the wall's construction and testing the defendant's explanations.
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Weather Bureau
United States Department of Agriculture
The Single Pin That Holds Elaborate Hair Styles
A Detroit News description explains that a single spoon shaped pin secures intricate coiffures worn by Asian women. The preparation involves combing by a maid, applying perfumed lubricant, and tying the hair with a silk cord before twisting into a knot and inserting the pivotal pin.
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Detroit News
Capital's Government Under Washington Era Described
A 1874 arrangement gives a three member commission authority over municipal affairs, police, streets, and schools in the Federal City with Congress as sole legislature. The city owns much property, and Congress allocates half annual city expenses, the other half funded by property taxes. Kansas City Star.
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Federal City
Washington
Senate
Congress
Citizens
Kansas City Star
Halt, There! A Petunia Constable Steps In
The Kansas City Star recounts Constable Sam T. Slackputter halting a speeding driver. The officer claims timing by sight, noting he can estimate speed from church corner to hay scales after glancing away. He cites forty nine years of experience as his timing method.
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Sam T. Slackputter
Petunia
Methodist Church
Kansas City Star
Threeinone Street Car Train Promises More Seats
Detroit observers note a new threeinone street car idea offering greater seating capacity in the same space. The train combines three connected cars on four wheel sets and seats 140 passengers while weighing less and costing less to operate than three standard cars.
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Detroit
Street Railway Company
Gypsy Women Lead as Real Bosses in Camps
The Kansas City Star notes that in gypsy families the wife and mother control property, finances, and children while men seem less discreet. It contrasts European camps where a “gypsy queen” appears, with American camps where women have long led, especially during the suffrage era.
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Europe
Kansas City Star
Washington Grants Sunday Worship Breaks To Troops
General orders excuse troops from fatigue duty on Sundays to allow attend worship and rest after fatigue driving through campaigns. Exceptions apply at shipyards and on special occasions until further notice. Washington laments rising profane cursing in the American army, calling it a mean vice detestable to men of sense.
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George Washington
Poetry Paved Way for Prose in Ancient storytelling
The Detroit News notes poetry preceded prose in many countries as early stories were sung or recited and passed by bards. It cites Egyptian tales dating before the Christian era and the Cinderella story tracing back to Egypt, while Greek prose tales have not survived to the present.
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Detroit News
Egypt
Greece
What Are Ferrets Used For In Some Places
Ferrets are used to hunt rabbits by entering warrens to flush them out for capture. Many states prohibit the practice and most conservative sportsmen discourage it, except where rabbits are pests. Nowadays ferrets mainly start rats from underground homes or grain stacks where rats cause damage.
Early Sheep in America From Mayflower Stock Arrival
Nature Magazine notes that many sheep roaming the ranges today descend from Mayflower stock. Wiltshire sheep with large size and fine wool arrived at Plymouth. Dutch settlers brought long-legged sheep with coarse wool to New York. Swedish settlers in New Jersey brought rams and ewes to the new land.
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U. S
Plymouth
Nature Magazine
New York
New Jersey
New Land
Obituary: Frank Puiia of Mt Hope Dies at 42
Frank Puiia, longtime leader of the Italian band and a tailor turned shoe maker at the National India Rubber Company, died at St Joseph's Hospital Providence from blood poisoning after a rusty nail injury. He leaves a wife and nine children. youngest is three months. A popular member of the local Italian colony.
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Frank Puiia
Mt. Hope Avenue
St. Joseph's Hospital
Providence
John R. Bernardo
National India Rubber Company
Puna
OConnor and Walker Wed at St Marys Church
Lawrence Vincent OConnor of Baltimore and Susan Theresa Walker of this town marry July 28 at St Marys Church. officiated by Rev Thomas J Gillan.
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O’connor—Walker
St Mary's Church
Thomas J Gillan
Lawrence Vincent O'Connor
Baltimore
Susan Theresa Walker
Frank Puna Dies in Providence at 42
In Puna In Providence on July 28 at St Joseph's Hospital, Frank Puna of this town died aged 42.
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Puna
Providence
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Frank Puna
Stevenson Bedbound Verses For Children
The article notes that many of Robert Louis Stevenson’s little verses for children were written while he was confined to bed by illness.
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Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson
Quote about virtue and effort by the river head
The line reflects a motto that virtue dwells at the river's source and must be reached by rowing against the current. It frames moral striving as strenuous, directional work rather than easy ascent.
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Parowax
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American Legion
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Burgess St. Providence
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Medeiros & Bernard
Wood and
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J. D. Peck Grain Co
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American Lusco
Bradford St
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Capital's Government
Gypsy Woman
Frank Patia
William Perry
Gansett Avenue
John C. Trudell
Sheaffer
Buffington’s Pharmacy
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Kieller
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