Detailed Bristol Town Insurance Survey Prompts Reform
At a Bristol town council meeting in the Burnside Memorial Building the panel reviewed insurance costs and authorized Albert H. Flint Jr. to prepare a sound-value property survey. Recommendations include 80 percent co insurance, a unified schedule, and endorsements aligned with a new rate promoted by December 1930.
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Burnside Memorial Building
Williams
Albert H. Flint, Jr
B.W. Wall
Wall
Mr Flint
Bristol
New England Insurance Exchange
Hibbert
Sylvia
Bristol & Warren Water Works
C C Getchell
Daniel T. Mapes
Harry W. Munro
Wilfred M. Hamill
Munro
Francois L. deWolf
Hamill
Julia A.herreshoff
Hope Street
Fred Guevremont
J W. Church
Joseph F. Lewis
William P. Gladding
Salvatore Massano
George T Ingram
Charles B. Rockwell, Jr
Davis
US Rubber Company
National India Rubber Company
New York
Wylie
Our Lady of Mt Carmel
Alfred Levy
State Street
Frank Langello
Wood Street
Reynolds School
Revelation meaning and origins in Latin terms
The term revelation comes from revelatio a Latin form akin to apocalypsis both signifying uncovering or unveiling. The pair traces semantic roots to describing unveiling events and disclosures in historical contexts.
Master English Bellman John Waylett and His Craft
A portrait of John Waylett, renowned eighteenth century English bellman and repairer. He lived humbly as a wanderer, asking parishes to repair bells, building molds and furnaces in churchyard fields, and casting bells that produced precise pitches. The text notes bell ringing techniques and boasts vast durations to complete all bell sounds.
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Old England
John Waylett
England
John Waynett
Bob Cater
John Warglett
Contentment in Idleness: A Brockton Man’s Tale
A Brockton man quits the traveling sales role for a Boston firm and soon finds idleness unsatisfying. He rents desk space, buys a commuter ticket, and maintains a routine to feel some purpose. The piece argues that many leaving active work struggle to stay well or happy without daily work.
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Brockton
Boston
Mass
Ostia finds reveal ancient tabloids on stone tablets
Excavations at Ostia Italy uncover stone tablets, one noting Pompey’s death in 49 B C and Julius Caesar’s will for Romans. Historian Cicero, born 106 B C, described as father of journalism by dispatches from Gaul, kept villa gallery records of births deaths and marriages using abbreviations.
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Ostia
Italy
Pompey
B. C
Julius Caesar
Rome
Gaul
Caesara
Cicero
Tusculum
Women and Hats A Hat Complex Debate
A Detroit News quote reports a well dressed attorney saying his wife has a hat complex. She buys a hat she adores then changes her mind, leaving him with a house full of unworn hats and no return. The piece pokes at the ongoing tension between women and millinery.
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Detroit News
City of Spires Copenhagen And Its Enduring Charm
Copenhagen blends ancient spires with modern streets. Fire destroyed early wooden houses in the eighteenth century, replaced by brick and stone structures. The Tivoli gardens, laid out in 1843, shine at night with fairy lights and a slew of theaters and venues for entertainment.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Faltryland
Old Ship Church Ranked Among Nation's Historic Treasures
An article in the Boston Post lauds the Old Ship Church in Hingham Massachusetts as among the country's most interesting historic buildings. Built in 1681 as the town's second church it has been enlarged twice yet remains on its original site as the oldest public worship house still standing for its original purpose.
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Hingham
Mass
Boston Post
United States
Innes
Messina Reveals World’s Most Wonderful Clock Tower
Messina Sicily regains glory after the quake twenty two years past. A tower houses a bronze lion with the city flag that roars at noon and a bronze cock greets sunrise noon and sunset. Four sides bear eight foot moon dials, a perpetual calendar and planetary motions. Mechanical figures act out church feasts on a stage below.
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Messina
Sicily
Diana
Clarenza
London
Ole Olsen Seeks Hideout In Curious Farm Store Incident
In a humorous Pathfinder Magazine tale Ole Olsen bursts into Yon Yonson's general store fleeing the sheriff. Hid inside a gunny sack, Ole pretends only old harness lies inside until the sheriff discovers the sack and Ole is booted, causing a raucous yingle.
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Ole
Ole Olsen
Yon
Yingle
Pathfinder Magazine
Lures for Collectors and Curious Auction Items
The article notes a traveling organ used by James II on Hounslow Heath sold for 850 dollars. Sotheby’s featured a Sixteenth century German woodman hatchet and a blunt steel rapier with a girl figure handle. It mentions an official measure of the king's alnager, a cloth inspector, now abolished in William III's reign.
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James II
Hounslow Heath
Sotheby's
William
London Mall
Old Nancy Hanks Tale Confuses Kentucky Cop
A Cincinnati Enquirer snippet recalls a Michigan driver asking about Kentucky sights in Lexington. A traffic officer explains the famed Nancy Hanks, only to correct that she was a trotting horse, not a historic figure, in a light local anecdote.
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Kentucky
Lexington
Blue Grass
Nancy Hanks
Cincinnat
Enquirer
The Herodian Me
If all membranic capsules and memory biographations dissolves, the universe reverts to Holophilic Sentient Intercourse and a period of Holophilic Opinional Estimation. The partitionment was an aspirational introduction by a basic function titled The Herodian Me by Henry Davidge Thayer.
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Henry Davidge Thayer
Preserving Old Prints with Wax Finish and Framing
To preserve old prints of flowers birds and personages modern pictures or prints can be antique d with a light coating of liquid wax. Pin the pictures firmly to a flat surface before applying wax for a mellow old tone and charming wall display.
Joint Tariff Filing Defined for Through Rail Rates
A joint tariff applies when a through rate involves two or more railroads and the journey starts with one carrier and ends with another. Such tariffs are filed with the Interstate Commerce Commission.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
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A. H. Fusit, Jr
Greenwich Water and Gas System
Bristol and Warren Water Works
Greenwich Water and Gas System, Inc
John LaFazia
Presdent Williams
Willams
F J Sylvia
Committee On Fire Department
George Taber
Babbitt Post
American Legion Auxiliary
Worcester
Springfield
Lowell
Portland, ME
Haverhill
Fitchburg
New England Telephone and Telegraph Company
Old Massachusetts Church
Veter
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