Red Cross marks fifty years of disaster aid in US
The American Red Cross commemorates half a century of disaster relief, noting over a thousand major disasters in 50 years. Clara Barton founded the society in 1881, with early aid during Michigan forest fires, and Hoover led anniversary events in Washington marking international ties and the Geneva Treaty origin.
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RED Cross
United States
American Red Cross
Clara Barton
Washington, D. C
American Association of the Red Cross
Geneva
Miss Barton
North Woods
Michigesh
Dansville
New York
Rochester
Syracuse
Red Crosgn
Gwocel
Hoover
Max Huber
Switzerland
International Committee of the Red Cross
Red Cross Brotherhood
John Barton Payne
Mabel T Boardman
George Cragg
Charles S .P. Bowles
Europe
United States Sanitary Commission
Washington
Garfield
Arthur
Henri Dunant
Republic
Bristol County Superior Court Session Opens May Term Trials
The May term of Bristol County Superior Court resumed with juried trials including Mary Elves Oliveira against Antonio Rego and Mary Elves Oliveira against Antonio Mederio. Naturalization hearings saw eleven new citizens and 33 jurors qualified, with a slander case Emily Alves versus Mary Ferreira reaching a verdict for the defendant.
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Superior Court
Bristol County
Mary Elves Olivera
Antonio Rego
Mary
Elves Oliveira
Antonio Mederio
George Triedman
Edward L. Leahy
Joseph Belott
M. J. Madeiros
Elias Corey
Frank Bisignano
Emily Alves
Mary Ferreira
Bristol
Warren
Barrington
Enoch Marsden
Wood Street
Rene T Vaccaro
State Street
Mariana S Bettencourt
Gray Street
Francesco Luiz
Easterbrooks Avenue
John Miller
High Street
Jose Caromile
Fast State Street
Jose Pacheco R . D
Metatonm Avenue
Rose Correira
Alfonso Rebello
Calixta Brochu
Hope Street
Nick Zinm
Providence
Alves
Leonidas Pounot
Joseph A Hamel
Plamerati
Pouchot
Fol. Leady
Dennis Garcia Feorreire
August Marshall
Memorial Day Observance Planned by Babbitt Post 15
Special Order details Memorial Day events for May 30 1931 in Bristol Rhode Island. Brigades bands scouts and veterans assemble at Grand Army Hall at 9 am in uniform or dark clothes with a parade through Hope Street to North Cemetery and Soldiers and Sailors Monument.
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Babbitt Post
Gar
Bristol
Grand Army Hall
Inne
Marshall Vernon A Gray
Marshal Vernon
A Gray
I. H Callan
Merton
Cheesman
W Barrett
F M Straight
W Wall
Fred E Suzman
A Jackson
Anthony R Parsh
Rex George A Toadvin
Manuel Cardoza Herbert
Gros Francis Slade
Hatters
A Moren
Kearney
American Legion
Eader Joseph Faas
Joy
Roy Sea Soons
Read Leclair
John Post
Jabbatt Weems Reset Corps
DAR
American Legion Auxiliary
the Honorable Town
Pays Chorus
John Marsden
John Post Reynolds School
Jessie Molasky
Battery C
Batters C
Edward Robinson
Boy Scout
Herbert D Graetz
Hope Street
Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument
Margaret Cicerchin
Cora
Bristol Chapel
Fred Eo Suzman
Joseph Enos
Women's Relief Corps
Amerian Legion
Coast Artillery
Juniper Hill
St Mary's
North
William F. Young
Robert J. McKay
Twenty Millionth Ford on Tour Reaches Bristol
The Twenty Millionth Ford visited Bristol on Saturday May 16 arriving near 2 PM. Town Council President W Frederick Williams Jr welcomed the car at Burnside Memorial Building and logged his name in the record before taking a brief ride. The vehicle, built April 14 at the Rouge Plant in Dearborn Michigan, is meant to be preserved at Greenshed Village near Dearborn. Leaving Bristol the tour planned a overnight stop in Westerly Rhode Island.
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Bristol
Mt. Hope Bridge
Burnside Memorial
W. Frederick Williams, Jr
Williams
Greenshed
Henry Ford
Dearborn
Mich
Westerly
Rouge
Ford Motor Company
Michigan
Henry and
Edsel Ford
Best Sight of Spring: The Rhubarb Emerges in New England
A narrator muses on spring tastes and declares the rhubarb plant the epitome of April. He extols stewed rhubarb as a culinary and health joy, praising its scent, sound, and tart flavor while inviting readers to embrace this humble pie-plant as the season’s supreme symbol.
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New England
New Hampshire
Disciples of Nature
Rhubarbarian
Old statue unearthed in Barnack church chapel
Workmen lowering the stone floor of the Lady chapel in St. John the Baptist Church Barnack unearthed a tall Saxon era stone figure, likely depicting Christ in majesty. The statue stands nearly eight feet high and eighteen inches wide, with feet and nose missing.
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Barnack
Petersborough
England
Christ
Origins of the First Lady title in early America
The article explains the term First Lady of the Land and how Washington’s wife was once called Lady Washington before the title fell out of favor as an imitation of English aristocracy.
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Republic
Lady Washington
Niagara name origins and spellings through history
The name Niagara likely derives from an Iroquois term meaning across the neck or at the neck. Early French explorer L Allemant in 1640 called the river Onagulahra, while Father Hennepin in 1679 used Niagara and another manuscript variant reads Ongtara.
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Niagara
L’allemant
Hennepin
Racial Mental Capacity Across Human Groups
The text argues there is no inherent mental capacity difference among races. It describes three broad mental ability classes within each race: above average, average, and below average, with many shades between. It notes that all races have produced brilliant minds despite variability.
Hot cross buns mark Good Friday across England
Across London and the country the morning of Good Friday opens with the cry of hot cross buns. Vendors deliver baskets of buns to breakfast tables as home economics workers note the ancient history of the treat spanning thousands of years.
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London
England
Locks On Famous Canal Through Sault Ste. Marie History
The North West Fur Company built a lock on the Canadian side of the river at Sault Ste. Marie in 1797 98. The state lock and canal were opened in 1855 and widened later by the federal government. Weltzel lock was completed in 1881 the Canadian in 1805 the Poe in 1896 the Davis in 1014 and the Sabin in 1919.
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North West Fur Company
Sault Ste. Marie
Davis
Damage By Rats Across United States Crop Losses
A biology survey estimates rats destroyed $200,000,000 worth of crops and stored products in the United States. Expenditures to combat rodents are not included. Food and grain industries suffer most, though rat diet varies by locality.
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Biological Survey
United States
Origin of the phrase cut a dido traced to American Negroes
Pathfinder Magazine notes the expression meaning to cut capers or play mischief, with uncertain origins. It suggests American Negroes likely coined it, while finding no evidence linking it to the classical Queen Dido story of Carthage.
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Pathfinder Magazine
Carthage
Africa
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President Hoover
Ehief Justice
Cbharien Evans Hugher
Bristol County Superior Court
Poncession
Samuel S. Drury
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Phenix
Dr. Drury
St. Paul’s School
Concord
N. H
Newman Bros Bristol
Hormel
S. S. Pierce
S. Pierce
S. S. Pierce’s
Epicure
Keebler’s Fountain
Swift
Newman
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