Cut Glass Shower For Miss Elizabeth Cole At Warren Bride-Elect
Miss Katherine Gray and Miss Elsie Dunbar hosted a cut glass shower at Miss Dunbar’s 20 Charles street home for Miss Elizabeth Cole of Warren who is to wed Albert Morton of Warren this Saturday. The evening featured vocal and instrumental entries and a chicken salad meal. The dining room showcased white and green décor with a shamrock centerpiece from Ireland surrounded by white carnations. Present were all operators from the Providence Telephone Company local exchange where Cole is chief operator. The event also marked the 17th birthday of Miss Marguerite Dunbar with a cake bearing 17 candles.
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Katherine Gray
Elsie Dunbar
Miss Dunbar
Charles Street
Elizabeth Cole
Warren
Albert Morton
Ireland
Cale
Providence Telephone Company
Miss Cole
Marguerite Dunbar
Viola Dana Stars in The Willow Tree at Fox Palace
Tuesday and Thursday event listings spotlight Viola Dana in The Willow Tree a romantic drama set in England and Japan with a strong note of sacrifice and charm Also a Fox Sunshine comedy Hungry Lions and Tender Hearts and News Weekly features Douglas MacLean Doris Martin and What's Your Husband Doing The schedule notes Ruth Roland in The Adventures of Ruth and Girls Will Be Girls on late entries Friday through Saturday another Love in The Grouch with Montague Love scenes set in North Carolina plus a Parisian intrigue The Black Secrets featuring Pearl White and Matt and Jeff also noted
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Broadway
Cohan & Harris
Japan
Orient
Viola Dana
Fox
Douglas MacLean
Doris Martin
Miss May
Ruth
Roland
Patiy
Dor -Greans
Jana Sko
Paris
Madlaines
Pearl White
Matt
Jeff
105th Birthday Noted for Mrs Maria Horton Chappell
Seekonk's Maria Horton Chappell 105 celebrated at home with her daughter Mrs Francis B West on Country Street Luther's Corners. Born March 11 1815 in Rehoboth near Swansea to Elipheth Horton and Mary Chase she married Ralph Chappell in 1847. he died in 1883 and she has long lived with her daughter in Seekonk.
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Maria Horton Chappell
Seekonk
Francis B. West
Luther’s Corners
Chappell
Rehoboth
Swansea
Elipheth and
Mary (Chase) Horton
Ralph Happell
Loyal Order of Moose Lodge Plans May Minstrel Show
Philip Lodge No 1135 of Bristol held 15 candidates in major degree and acted on nine applications last Friday. The lodge on Hope Street plans a big minstrel show at the Pastime Theatre around mid April with strong local talent. Installation of new officers Friday evening will be followed by banquet and entertainment, all members urged to attend.
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Philip Lodge
Loyal Order of Moose
Hope Street
Bristol
Obituaries Notice for Julia Alger and Emma Jane Flowers
In this town March 13 died Miss Julia Alger aged 69. In this town March 12 Emma Jane wife of Sanford W Flowers aged 63.
The House of All Five Inn Sign Joke
In Leicester an inn wall bears lines from a pastor lawyer farmer and army officer each claiming I pray for all I plead for all I feed all I fight for all. An unknown author adds I take them all the devil, and the host hangs The House of All Five sign.
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Leicester
England
The New Men Arrive To Free France
The passage recalls Pershing's troops advancing in France during world war I. It highlights the arrival of fresh American forces, their disciplined marching, and the liberation mood as they push toward Paris while the weary French and allied armies watch the change in momentum. The tone honors leadership and the courage of soldiers in lifting oppression.
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Isiehelm
Nieuport
Errathy
Aigal
Svith Pekilltul
Vaterats
Callig
Pershing
Wal
Jeans Empruln
Enexielani Cn
France
Young Wife Learns Cooking Lessons In Marriage
A newly married husband jokes about dining out while his wife boasts of cooking lessons. The tale ends with a hostess boasting of ancestry and a guest retorting she has little time to learn about ancestors to avoid embarrassment if they awaken.
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Fang Dearest
Temperament and Watch Magnetism Causes Clock Stoppage
A reader notes that tempera ment exercises suppress watches, with four failures in three months. A watchmaker suspects balance springs magnetize, while Prof. Sylvanus Thompson suggests high tension friction electricity may magnetize the spring and halt movements.
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Sylvanus Thompson
One Frenchman's Sacrifice in World War I
A French farmer of Reninghe near Ypres and his family paid a heavy toll in war death. He kept 36 children with 20 of his 22 sons fighting on fronts. in 1917 a son's widow died at Dunkirk by a German shell. The farmer and one daughter survived. In October 1914 they were ambushed by a German patrol returning from Lille, shot on the way back.
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Reninghe
Ypres
Dunkirk
Lille
Secret of artificial mother of pearl found in Britain
J W B Dew a Royal Society of Arts fellow discovered a process for making artificial mother of pearl after extensive experiments. He worked throughout the war to reconstruct the manufacture. The material is used for buttons dress trimmings and other items once supplied mainly by Germany.
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J. W. B. Dew
Royal Society of Arts
Doctor Dew
Germany
Veterans Reflect On War Memories In Street Portrait
An elderly veteran reacts to a photograph showing new soldiers, recalling Ypres and Antietam while contrasting past and present. He says he has long honored veterans and now welcomes younger troops, hoping the tables are turned for a while.
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Cygnas
Soywe
Ypres
Antiétam
Vast Dead City Revealed by Airship Photography
In Geographical Journal London Lieutenant Colonel J A Beazeley details aerial photographs taken over Samarra Mesopotamia showing a 20 mile long by 2.5 mile wide ruined city with fortifications canals and streets. The site sheltering about four million inhabitants was previously unnoted on maps.
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J. A. Beazeley
Geographical Journal
London
Mesopotamia
Samarra
Tigris
Beazeley
British snow shoe idea helps army march in desert
Major John Bain recounts a British army experiment in Egypt using tightly woven chicken wire as a snowshoe substitute. The sand impeded infantry and horses, but the close meshing wire gave footing, enabling much faster advances from two to three miles per day to nine or ten miles daily.
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John Bain
Near
Hast
Palestine
Bain
Army Searchlight Developed by Engineers in War
The War Department notes a new Army engineer corps searchlight far surpassing prior models. It weighs one-eighth the mass, costs one third, is one-fourth the size, and emits light ten percent stronger than existing projectors. Engineers pursued remote control enhancements before hostilities ended.
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Army Engineer Corps
War Department
Honey yield steady at 92.1 percent of normal
U S honey crop stands at 92.1 percent of normal as of July 1 per the United States Department of Agriculture. Surplus honey per colony averages 25.8 pounds, with about half of the annual product realized by mid summer. Comparisons show 92.1 percent this year versus 66.7 in 1918 and 86.3 in 1917.
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United States
United States Department of Agriculture
Bureau of Crop Estimates
Electrical Undertakings In Japan Rise in 715 Installations
The report lists 715 electrical undertakings in Japan, with 625 power plants, 42 electric railways, and 48 firms operating both. This marks a 40 company rise from last year and total invested capital around 388 million dollars, including 193 million for plants, 22 million for railways, and 1738 million for combined service, up about 8 million from last year.
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Japan
Useless to Try As Lecture Provoked Untimely Mirth
A brief excerpt from a lecture noted for its unintended humor. The speaker jokes that the mountain paths are too steep for any mile to climb, explaining he chose not to attempt the ascent himself.
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Altar Society of
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Bristol Council
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Apia Santa Testa
Kearney Post
American Legion
B. S. of A
Mary
Viola_ Dana
wWanten
Ywomnra
USL
PIM Rae Ar
Montague Love
Mr Love
Donald Graham
Graham
North Carolina
Viola’ Dana
Memoriam
Thomas Edmonds
Margaret Edmonds
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco CO
Blend Carett
Paty
Ube
Swince
Calcuae
E. W
Weaver
Pierce Avenue
Raymond P. Smith
Burton Street
G. M. Wilbur
Union Street
Campbell's Park
Co-Operative U
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Bradford Street
William W. Franklin & Co
Wood St
Shoeman
Hope St. G. A. R. Block
Robert J. McKay
G.W. Simmons
Constitution Street
Providence
John C. Trudell
ST. Tel
A. J. King & CO
Clark’s Express
Gorham’s Express
J. H. Young
DEUG
Talbot & Hopkins Electrical Contractors
W. O. Talvet
W. Honkins
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