John Post Reynolds Pupils Present Plays and Awards
Morrill Martin wins first honors with Agnes Silvia second in the school contest. Judges include Ina Warren Gertrude Leonard and Dora Sherman. Pupils performed two plays The Little Rebels and Oneida's Dream featuring Antonio Cocco Anthony Ruggi erg Matthew Boriga Eugene Mansi Anthony Joseph Annabel Sousa Antonetta Poli Elsie Cheshire Florence Cirillo Josephine Codola Margaret Borges Dorothy Adams and Emily Velleca.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Post
Reynolds School
Morrill Martin
Agnes Silvia
Ina P. Warren
Gertrude A. Leonard
Dora Sherman
John Correa
Edward Pasqua
Mary Riccio
Andrea Asciola
Arthur Sousa
Annie Fratus
Manuel Botelho
Stretching the Adirondacks Tall Story Echoes
A reader recalls Mr M living beside an Adirondack lake with a waterproof rubber boat. On a sick relative emergency they rowed to the village but forgot to untie the boat, causing it to drift back to the home dock three miles away. The incident preserves a local tall tale. Donations to Home Acknowledgments list several items and services received between Feb 9 and March 9 including seamstress work and clothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adirondack
New York
Mr M
the Children’s Home
Charles B Rockwell, Jr
A T Levy
I. Bosworth
Drury
Obituary: Sullivan and Vignopiano Passings in Town
In this town at the Soldiers Home Maurice Sullivan aged about 80 and soldiers home death. Vignopiano Graciano died at RI Hospital on March 28 beloved husband of Mars Vignopiano aged 72.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vignopiano
Providence
The
RI Hospital
Graciano Vignepiano
Mars Vignopiano
Hbrecarloa
The Principal Inducement to Far World Travel
A magazine asks what drives men to distant lands. the guess is the lure of their names in newspaper headlines.
Scout Troops Schedule Inspections and Hikes in Bristol
Troop 2 Bristol plans a full meeting with officer and scout attendance tomorrow evening at the Scout building as they prepare vacation hikes. Troop 1 meets Thursday for its monthly Deputy Commissioner inspection and vacation hike planning. Troop 5 skips this week for Good Friday and holds an all day hike next Monday at 9am from Trinity Parish House. Troop 4 also has a Deputy Commissioner inspection Friday evening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Trinity Parish House
Pedestrian Fault Cited in Most Fatal Auto Crashes
A Stewart-Warner Safety Council report shows 1 890 auto fatalities over seven months with 727 cases attributed to pedestrian fault. Jaywalking causes 62 percent of crashes. children playing in streets account for 81 percent. coasting 8 percent. confusion and distraction 9 percent. disability 3 percent and intoxication 2 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saint Peter
Stewart-Warner Safety Council For
Safety Council
Corn crop peaks as 1925 harvest tops five-year trend
The Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation reports 1925 corn production at 2 900 581 000 bushels with an overall 296 1481 000 bushels marketable crop. Despite Southwest weaknesses and lower cotton yields, the northern corn belt yielded fine quality grain though prices fell from January highs to November lows.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation
Ohio
Potomac Rivers
Chicago
United States
Dining Etiquette in the Middle Ages Before Forks
The article describes medieval dining practices with hand washing before and after meals using basins and water. Attendants served guests, one held the bowl and another poured water, and knives and spoons were wiped clean after eating. Forks were unknown at the time.
Commercial listings and services ad catalog fragment
A fragmented OCR page listing local businesses and services. Includes shoe store, telegraph and delivery notes, laundry, newsdealer, stationery, confectionery, wedding photos, framing, tinning and metalwork, radio sets, real estate and insurance, and sewing machine parts.
Long Street Business Directory Listing Fractured
A fragmented OCR page lists diverse Franklin Street businesses and services including automobile repair shops bakers hardware contractors and electrical suppliers with names and phone numbers interspersed amid fragmented lines and misread details. The cluttered items mention Simmons Beauregard Lopes RaNR Wyn and others with partial addresses and product notes.
Expressing Bristol and Providence Express Service Ad
DuPont's Express, Joseph DuPont proprietor, advertises daily passenger service between Providence and Bristol from 8 Bourn Avenue and 74 Constitution Street with telephone contact 445-W. The note invites potential riders to use the service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Providence
Dupont’s Express
Joseph DuPont
Bourn Ave
Constitution St
Local grocers advertise meats and provisions
Several Bristol stores list offerings from meats groceries and provisions to fresh fruits vegetables paints tires and candies. Businesses like Lanson Peter J at Wood and Catherine and Pansa Brothers highlight Italian groceries established 1910 with fresh poultry eggs olive oil and coffee roasters.
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Lanson Peter J Corner
Wood and
Catherine Sta
Mpdfirgos & Bernard
Franklin St Tel
Hope Steel
Grocerica
Nion Commercial CO
Bristol
Pansa Brothers
Modern shoe repair shop and tailor services ad
An old newspaper classified ad promotes a shoe repair shop at 335 High St Antonio Mazza owner with hand and machine work guaranteed and low prices. It also lists John the Tailor at 301 Hope St and Jek Troiano offering distinctive custom tattooing cleaning pressing and repair services with phone numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Antonio Mazza
John the
Hope St
Jek Troiano
Franklin Street Taxi Service and Local Hauling Operations
Frederick Middleton, owner, operates Franklin Street Garage with taxi service call 59-R after 10 PM and a seven passenger Buick for all occasions. Also Tru dell John C. Trudell offers light and heavy teaming, hay, wood, and coke. land for building purposes available.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin Street
Frederick Middleton
Trudell
John C
1925 Lamb Market At High Prices Despite Smaller Slaughter
The Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation reports lamb prices remained strong in 1925 with Chicago averages around 15.35 in November, while slaughter supplies stayed near normal. Pastures were good west of the Rockies and profits rose vs 1924, though ewes were held back for flock growth. A larger 1926 lamb crop is expected with prices easing as new lambs enter markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation
Rocky Mountains
Chicago
Corn
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Petea
Agnes
Silvia
Jonquils Narcissus Poetics's
Genistas
Lily OF the Valley
Sweet Peas
Samuel Kinder
the Adirondacks
BOY Scout
YY Ji
Buyers’ Guide
Professional & Business Men's
Bristol Phenix
Kinder Samuel & Brother
Scholle
Colo
John
Bristol 69
Worthy
Kearns Foward Fo
Constitutionst
Pearl St
Hope Street
Wood St
Federico Feathers
Pristoe
Perront
Coggeshali
Darling Henry
Confectionery Town Phonographia Records
Stationers, Hemedicals Tobacco and
Photograph Studio
Santi
Lawrence
Holdrens Petures Kodake
Armirtenss
Piowbing, Stfaw and Gas
Kefmih
Herman J JR
Y Ou
Pdmonds A A CO
Sfwing Machines
Efieitetr JT
Thames &T Tl
Singer Sewing Machines
Franklin Street Garage CO
Tel 339
Simmons & Beauregard
Bakfries
Sunnyside
Pakery Lopes & Ranr
Biyf Bird Shop
Hope Steel Pir
Fone
Grnahits
Thames
Linenicher Hardware
Tel
Orulg Stores
Sears
L.A
Fazla Pharmacy
Pradford St
Flectrical Engineering and
Hochman Piactric
Warren Ros
Iiristal
Warren
Ixtures
Talbot & Hopkins
Ope St
Rooi Electrical League
Usher John
Mary R. Boardman
State St
Bears-Roebuck Agricultural Foundation
Telephone
Nursing Association
State Street
Martha Graham
Mes
Thyba Graves
Boston
HB. L. Watson & CO
Weybosset Street
William W. Franklin & Co
Isaac B. Munro
Garfield Avenue
E. W. Weaver
High Street
G. M. Wilbur
Charles M. Connery
Burton St
Archie H. Rounds
Union Street
Freeborn
R. Cole
Warren and Bristol
Railroad Ave
R. I
Robert J. McKay
G. W. Simmons Undertaker and Funeral Director
William Street
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