City Council Proceedings and Appointments Action
The council filled vacancies by electing George Diori and Salvatore Della Morte. Leo Ciarelli resigned as poll tax enumerator. Rick’s Bristolians won permission to play Sunday baseball at Callan playground. William Newbold named special constable. A junk license for David Weiser of Providence was laid on the table. Automobile purchase for police discussed in executive session. Council examined department car for possible reuse. Tax assessor auto hire request tabled pending investigation. Callan and Police Chief Kavanaugh discussed department work.
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George Diori
Stephen W. Hopkins
Franklin Street
Hope and
Washington Streets
Leo Ciarelli
Salvatore Della Morte
Joseph Ricci
Rick’s
Bristolians
Callan
William D. Newbold
David Weiser
Providence
Police Department
Elisha Hibbert
Board of Tax Assessors
Council
L. H. Callan
Richard J. Kavanaugh
Curious Family Book of the Prince de Ligne
A rare manuscript described as belonging to the French prince de Ligne family is neither written nor printed. Its letters are cut from each page of vellum and interleaved with blue paper, making the text readable as print.
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Prince de Ligne
France
Sex Differences in Expressing Symptoms Highlighted
A Toledo Blade excerpt contrasts how women and men describe health symptoms. A woman speakers humorously recounts bodily signals while a man tends to groan, illustrating gendered communication styles in illness.
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Toledo Blade
DAR meeting date moved for Rhode Island Society event
Bristol J Charter reports the Bristol Pausitter chapter will hold its officers meeting Monday at 2 PM at Mrs. Charles A Hoar's home in Barrington. Hostesses are Miss Hoar and Mrs J Iver Greene. The hour change facilitates attendance at the Providence event honoring Mrs Albert J Brousseau and others with a reception and dinner at 6:15 PM. Capt George L Carte will speak at postprandial ceremonies before the national officers’ entertainment.
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Bristol
Albert J. Brousseau
National Society, Daughters of American Revolution
William Sherman Walker
Isabel Wyman ‘Gordon
George L. Carte
Military Order’ of World War Veterans
Daughters of the American Revolution
Fee torn between hope and fear in clue interpretation
The article notes Fee doubting whether the clue was authentic information or a potential error. He feels hope that the clue is real but fears a mistake, reflecting tension during the disclosure.
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Fee
California
Hothouse Near Old Faithful Geyser Heats Year Round
A glass enclosed hothouse near Old Faithful in Yellowstone Park grows vegetables and flowers year round. It is heated using water from a nearby hot spring.
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Old Faithful Geyser
Yellowstone Park
Primitive surgery in ancient times used sharpened tools
Ancient practitioners employed sharpened flints bone fragments and fish teeth to bleed, drain abscesses, and perform skull trephination. The methods reflect early medical attempts to treat injury and disease with basic implements.
St Michael's Church Services on Third Sunday after Easter
The church holds Holy Communion at 8:00 a.m. Morning Prayer with sermon at 10:30 a.m. Church School at noon. Evening prayer and address at 7:30 p.m. on the third Sunday after Easter.
Trinity Church Sunday Services Schedule
The schedule lists Holy Communion at 8 00 a m Sung Mass and sermon at 10 45 a m Church School and Bible Class at noon and Evensong with sermon at 7 30 p m in a parish service card format.
First Congregational Church service schedule and themes
Friday night service at 7 30. Sunday morning worship at 10 30. Sermon theme Christianity a Magnet. Church School at 12 00. Sunday night praise and preaching at 7 30. Sermon theme The Law of Higher Service.
State Street M. E. Church Telegram Schedule
Parsonage at 256 Hope Street lists weekly church events including a Friday prayer meeting at 7 30 p m choir practice 8 30 p m and preaching at 7 30 p m Sunday School at noon Epworth League at 6 30 p m and another preaching service at 7 30 p m all focused on religious activities in the local church with contact 478 W for more details
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Hope Street
Sriday—ig
Epworth League
First Baptist Church Hosts Sunday Services
Morning service at 10 30 led by Pastor Harold W Baker on the topic Mother. Church school at 11 45. Evening service at 7 30 features a children's story and a sermon The Light of Life.
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Harold W. Baker
Mother “ Church
Church of the Nazarene Schedule on Court Street
Rev. Thomas Armstrong of Pawtucket will officiate all services. Morning service at 10:45, Sunday School at 12:00, Young People's meeting at 6:00, Evangelistic meeting at 7:00, Prayer meeting Wednesday at 7:30. You are invited.
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Court Street
Hope
Thomas Armstrong
Pawtucket
Young Aeople’s
Chiggers Explained as Tiny Insects Not Burrowing
The article clarifies that chiggers do not burrow into skin but attach by their feet. It notes their microscopic size and the misleading idea of burrowing, emphasizing that visible penetration requires magnification.
Two kinds of idleness by Seume
A brief quotation states idleness comes from the body’s stupidity while mind’s stupidity stems from idleness, attributed to Seume. The note links the two forms as contrasting human faults.
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Seume
Mark Twain names boost Missouri cave tourism in Hannibal
A New York Times correspondent notes how Mark Twain’s fame makes Hannibal Missouri a thriving gateway for visitors. Tourists flock to Mark Twain’s Cave two miles downriver, filling parking and the registry as 7000 annual visitors rise toward a new record.
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Mark Twain
Siississippi Bluffs
Hannibal
Mindset of Success by Guth at Goucher College
In Baltimore Guth of Goucher College argues that financial wealth is a low form of success. The tale recounts Mr Grabb in a theater who frowns at an errand boy for a mustardless sandwich dropped into the orchestra.
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Guth
Goucher College
Baltimore
Grabbbb
Gravbb
Mr. Grabb
Hydraulic stop watch speeds car timing invention from Indiana
An Indiana inventor perfects a hydraulic stop watch for racing cars. A garden hose laid across the track at the start fills a cylinder barrel with water, pressing by the front wheels starts the timer and crossing the hose again stops it.
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Indiana
Scientific American
Hospital Color Scheme Sets Room by Room Tones
The University of Denver hospital plans assign specific colors to rooms. The X ray room uses violet red walls for strong light absorption. The operating room is gray, disturbed patient wards are yellowish green, north facing rooms are yellowish, and south facing spaces are sunshine gray.
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The
University of Denver
108th Anniversary of Independent Order of Odd Fellows
More than 150 Odd Fellows and guests attended the 108th anniversary celebration last night in Odd Fellows Hall. The event was hosted by United Brothers Lodge No. Wampanoag Encampment No. 12 and Reba Rebekah Lodge No. 12. Past Grand Merton A. Cheesman delivered an address on Gold Fellowship. Burnside Glee Club made its first public appearance under Charles Morgan, with 12 members performing four selections. Mrs J Floyd Huestis sang three soprano solos and Miss Elizabeth G Rounds gave four readings. Walter E Scott of Providence performed musical saw pieces.
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Odd Fellows
Independent Order of Odd Fellows
United Brothers’ Lodge
Wampanoag
Reba Rebekah Lodge
Merton A. Cheesman
Oold
Burnside Glee Club
Charles Morgan
James M. Jones
Miles Harker
Enoch Marsden
Thomas Roberts
Joseph Hall
Gaythorne Cheshire
Charles F., Easterbrooks
Nelson Newman
Albert Hinton
William Cheshire
Frank Hinton
Walter Hey
Old Brigade
Annie Laurie
Comrades In Arms
Arthur T. Newman
J. Floyd Huestis
Eugene Byone
Elizabeth G. Rounds
Johnny
Grandma
Walter E. Scott
Providence
Fraternal Lodge Committee Members Named in Meeting
The text lists joint committees for the United Brothers Lodge Wampatoag Encampment and Rebekah Lodge with chairs Norman E. Benard Raymond A. Card and Elizabeth Pettine plus several members including Anna Brelsford Luella Ryone Lillian Brosseau and Eliza Usher.
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United
Brothers Lodge
William H. Remieres
Norman E. Benard
John W. Card
Raymond A. Card, Jr
Matthew J.cahoon
Wampatoag
Raymond A. Card
Albert E
Luella Ryone
Lillian Brosseau
Eliza Usher
Colt High Defeats Warren for First Win of Season
Colt Memorial blanked Warren high 8 to 4 on the common in a midweek baseball game. Gorham pitched his first Colt start fanning nine. Warren forfeited players due to ineligibility, including McCann the catcher and star athlete. Warren scored in the first and second, Colt took the lead in the fifth and added two in both the fifth and sixth innings as they hit harder but benefited from a few breaks in the field.
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Colt High
Warren
Colt Memorial
Warren High
Gorham
Colt
McCann
Real Estate Transfers Henry Allen to Manuel Varges
Henry DeWolf Allen and wife transfer land and buildings on the west side of Pop Pasquash road to Manuel Varges and wife in a property record.
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Henry DeWolf Allen
Manuel Varges
Poppasquash Road
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