Donations To Home Aid Children’s Home Last Month
List of donors and gifts totaling clothing shoes food and services to the Children’s Home last month. Items include hats loaves fruit cereals beans meals sugar and medical dental services from multiple donors and organizations.
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Farrington
Odd Fellows
Bennett
Dhmond & Co
Huestis
Newman Bros
St Michael's Church
Barnard French
Lung
Murray
Trinity Parish
C B Rockwell
Rhode Island Industry Strength Averages and Declines
Census figures show Rhode Island ranks 19th in value of manufactured products and 14th in average wage earners in 1914. Growth from 1899 to 1900 did not continue to 1909–14, with declines overall, though salaries rents and power usage rose. The jewelry sector employed 8851 workers producing 24.8 million dollars in 1914. Providence ranked 22nd in total manufactured product value, with textiles and other sectors contributing notably. The state had 2190 establishments employing 124,109 people with capital of 308.4 million dollars and total product value of 279.5 million dollars.
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Census of Manufactures
Rhode Island
Census Bureau
Providence
United States
Lafayette Returns to France Echoing Past Support to America
The Boston Post recalls Lafayette's 1777 aid to the American cause and parallels it with a recent welcome of an American general to Paris. It notes the reciprocal respect between nations and the hope that France will again aid the United States as Pershing did a century later.
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Boston Post
United States
Marquis de Lafayette
Georgetown
S C
France
Lafayette
America
West
General Pershing
Paris
Rue
Fatal pedestrian accident on Thames Street
John Kelley a 36 year old machinist was struck and killed by a Rhode Island Suburban car near Oliver Street on Thames Street. The motorman halted the car but Kelley died instantly from skull fracture and massive injuries. Funeral arrangements were made by Undertaker Robert J McKay. Kelley lived in Fall River with a wife and three children.
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John Kelley
Rhode Island Company
Thames Street
Oliver Street
Arthur B. Nottage
Harold DeWolf
Riverside
Main Street
Warren
O. R Siegel
Charles Archambeault
Order of Foresters
J K
Robert J McKay
Fall River
Kelley
Commencement Address Frames Democracy Versus Despotism
Dr Edwards delivers a wartime commencement sermon at Rhode Island State College praising democracy and condemning autocratic rule. He contrasts the state’s coercive power with democratic citizen development and cites Marathon, Yorktown, and Gettysburg alongside calls to resist German and allied imperialism. He urges students to advance democracy through education and service.
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Rhode Island State College
Howard Edwards
Edwards
Marathon
Chalons
Tours
Yorktown
Bastille
Gettysburg
Hohenzollern
Russia
Darius
Attila
Abderrahman
Louis XIV
Napoleon
George IV
Old South
Alma Mater Hails Returning Alumni with Blessing
A tribute speech honors alumni who have joined the army and field service while praising training, loyalty, and the enduring care of Alma Mater. It expresses pride in their manhood and womanhood and invokes divine blessing on their paths and deeds.
Pentecostal cottage meeting at parsonage on Wood Street
The Pentecostal church invites all to a 7 30 Bible reading at the parsonage 154 Wood Street followed by Ralph Morgan leading praise prayer and testimony. It begins a series of cottage meetings in homes with next Thursday’s prayer meeting urged for full attendance and to bring a friend.
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Wood Street
Ralph Morgan
Public Bath House Opens for Season at Burton Street
The public bath house at the foot of Burton Street opened yesterday for the season with C. H. Goddard named supervisor. Hours are not fixed yet but are expected from 8 a.m. to sunset.
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Burton Street
C. H. Goddard
Dean's Kidney Pills Offer Relief for Kidney Trouble
Bristol man Charles F Koch testifies that Doan's Kidney Pills have long provided relief for back and kidney trouble. The ad notes the remedy has over 50 years of use, warns that dropsy or Bright's disease may follow neglect, and promotes 50 cent bottles from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo.
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Dean
Bright
Bristol
Charles F Koch
First School Street
Doan
Mr. Koch
Foster-Milburn Co
Migrs
Buffalo
N. Y
Also Mentioned on This Page
Brian Coma
Bristols
Rhode Island Coast Artillery Corps
National Guard
Naval Reserve Armory
James B. Littlefield
N. G
G. 19Th Co
John G. Stewart
State Street M. E
Epworth League
Singer
Frank Aruda
Rhode Island Industries
Mary Pickford
Paramount
F. N. Easterbrooks
G. M. Wilbur
Union Street
Thomas Christodol
Thames and
Oliver Streets
Shoe Hospital
Sam—The Shoeman
G. A. R. Block
DR. Edwards
Rhode Island College
Rhode Island Hospital Trust Company
Westminster Street
R. I
Pentecostal Church
E. W. Weaver
the Electric Shop
Hope Street
Sim
Hecker
Ralston
Roy Rawling
Snider
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