Bristol Chapter D A R Holds Year End Meeting at Yacht Club
Bristol Chapter D A R closed its year with a long session at the Bristol Yacht Club. Mrs FE Easterbrooks presided in place of the absent Regent Mrs E Brownell. The group voted to buy a $1000 Liberty Loan Bond and donated $10 to the Navy Battleship Rhode Island. A Red Cross donation of five dollars was made, and music and readings were performed. An announcement of the summer conference on June 22 at Kingston with basket lunch was shared.
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Bristol
D A. R
Bristol Yacht Club
Regent
E . Brownell
FE. G Easterbrooks
C V . B. Ostrander
Navy League
Rhode Island
FE. 1
Brownell
Red Cross Society
Bolton
Hazel Gardiner
Holton
Isabel Eddy
Kingston
Narragansett
Providence
Kingston College
Town Council denies Sparks Circus permit for common use
A special Town Council meeting Friday rejected a petition by Sparks' Circus for use of the common on July 30. Last year’s heavy circus teams damaged the grounds, and officials warned they do not want a repeat of that trouble.
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Sparks’ Circus
Rowdy Dow Bowlers Triumph Over J H Towers Iron Foundry
The Rowdy Dow bowling team defeated JH Towers Iron Foundry two strings to one at Washington alleys in Providence last Friday. Rowdys won the final string by 18 pins, total 519 to 501, with Cromer scoring 328 across three strings and Nelson 291. Next Thursday a return match is set at the 4 M C A alleys in town.
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R W Nelson
Bill
Whistle
James Pierce
Pentecostal Church Services Highlight Week End Activities
Rev Miss Allen preached on recognizing guidance of the Holy Spirit during morning worship. Evening service featured a solo by Charles Morgan and Rev Miss Custance delivering a message from Genesis. Miss Custance and Miss Allen will attend a New England District preachers meeting in North Scituate. Commencement week at Pentecostal Collegiate Institute signals pastors and visitors’ arrival.
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Miss Allen
Charles Morgan
Old Rugged Cross
Miss Custance
New England
Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene
N H Washburn
Wll
Pentecostal Collegiate Institute
North Scituate
YMCA Moving Pictures Show At The House Of Golden Windows
The YMCA screens a five part tale The House of the Golden Windows tomorrow with Wallace Reid and Cleo Ridgely in the main roles Their collaboration marks the first in this series The program includes a prologue about jealousy and contentment the Paramount Pictograph features Ye Old Time Coon Hunt and cartoons plus a Burton Holmes travelogue from Glasgow to Leinboro Scotland
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Paramount Pictograph
Sam Lloyd
Bobby Bumps
Bobby
Glasgow
Leinboro
Scotland
Murder in Touisset Shocking Warren Woods Knife Killing
In Touisset, Mark Phelps a loomfixer from Fall River was killed in a drunken brawl with St Clair Sutton a weaver. Lucien Davis another Fall River loom fixer slept through the fight. Sutton confesses to the police claiming self defense. Davis is detained as a witness.
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Mark Phelps
Pleasant Street
Fall River
St. Clair Sutton
Ouisset
Sutton
Lucien Davis
Warren
Davis
Phelps
Tounsset Station
How Much Is Liberty Worth to You
An editorial urges Americans to measure liberty’s value this generation. It praises those in uniform and civilians who support the war effort, noting Liberty Loan bond subscriptions will reflect the nation’s devotion. The piece frames bonds as a directory of patriotic citizens.
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Lberty
Land of the
Free
Patriots of America
la Touraine
Wedding of Marguerite Day and Ensign Amos Root
Miss Marguerite Everett Day married Ensign Amos Eastow Root of the US Navy at St Stephen's Church Providence on Tuesday June 5 at noon. The hurried ceremony due to war orders drew only relatives and intimate friends with Miss Mary F Burgess of Providence as maid of honor and Warren Root as best man. The couple departed for New York City to reunite with Root’s ship for foreign service.
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Marguerite Everett
Amos Eastow Root
US Navy
St Stephen’s Church
Providence
Preston Everett
Sadies
Mary F Burgess
Warren Root
New York City
Ensign Root
Star Theatre Presents Twin Kiddies and Westerns at Star
Tonight at the Star Theatre Baby Marie Osborne stars in Twin Kiddies a five act program with Shorty Hamilton in a two part Western comedy drama. The Jimmie Dale Series opens with Fox Lincoln Edna Hunter Paul Panzer and Doris Mitchell. Also on bill Fatty Arbuckle in The Butcher Boy and Bessie Love in The Heiress at Coffee Davis. Thursday features Lillian Walker Fatty Arbuckle and others.
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Star Theater
Baby Marie Osborne
Shorty Hamilton
Fatty Arbuckle
Italian Visitor Fatally Shot in Bristol Tragedy
James Christino 22 and Vincenzo DeFelice of Providence visited Bristol Saturday evening when an altercation near Mt Hope and Mason avenues left Christino wounded in the abdomen. He died next day at Rhode Island Hospital. DeFelice said Stanzione fired three shots and fled. Stanzione remained at large as police describe. DeFelice was arrested. weaponry found on him and he was jailed for six months for carrying concealed weapons. Both men had been drinking.
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James Christino
Vincenzo DeFelice
Providence
Bristol
Mt. Hope Avenue
Mason Avenue
Christine
H. L. Teller
Rhode Island
Stanzione
DeFelice
Moon
Dwyer
Thomas Dwyer
Fifth District
Hammill
Providence County
Typical Rhode Island clambake honoring wedding guests
Mrs Samuel P Colt hosted a Rhode Island clambake at the Squantum Club on Saturday afternoon for Miss Martha Freeman Sayles and Paul Coe Nicholson whose wedding is set for June 23. About 50 guests attended including Roswell C Colt, F A Muller-Ury, Robert Grier Cooke, Howland Davis, Louis Keller, YT Morris Murray, and numerous Sayles Nicholson family members and friends from New York and Washington.
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Samuel P. Colt
Rhode Island
Martha Freeman Sayles
Paul Coe Nicholson
Roswell C. Colt
Montreal
Charles Field Street
F. A. Muller-Ury
New York
Robert Grier Cooke
Fifth Avenue Association of
Samuel M Nicholson
Howland Davis
Louis Keller
Morris Murray
Washington
Frank A. Sayles
William Grosvenor
John Carter Brown
Edward Carrington
Railroads Offer Wage Deductions for Liberty Bonds
The New York New Haven and Hartford system and affiliates arrange for employees to subscribe to Liberty Loan Bonds via station agents officers and Y M C A branches. Employees may authorize the paymaster to collect installments from wages, with posters calling for patriotism and quick response to the wartime bond drive.
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New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad Company
Y. M
New Haven Railroad
No Reason for Delay in Liberty Bond Purchases
A wartime notice urges immediate Liberty Loan bond purchases. It states that if higher interest bonds are issued later, current bonds can be exchanged at par for the new issue, ensuring no loss or delay for investors.
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United States
Dangers of a Cold and Kidney Trouble Remedy
A Bristol woman recalls backache and kidney pain from colds and credits Doan's Kidney Pills with quick relief. The ad urges using Doan's at first sign of kidney trouble and lists price 50 cents at dealers, from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Dean
Bristol
Mary O’rourke
Bourne Street
Doan
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Cleo Ridgely
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Rowdy Dow Tames Pierce
J. Birtwistle
Cromer
Bottomley
Nelson
Towers’ Foundry Marshall
Poole
Townsend
Lawrence
Hammond
Pentecostal Church
Touisset
Star Theatre
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company
Westminster Street
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R. I
S. P. Colt
Squantum
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Riviere Brand
Newman Bros
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