Colt Memorial High School Roll of Honor Pupils with High Marks
The Colt Memorial High School lists pupils who, in the five days ending Thursday November 13 1919, achieved 85 percent or higher in every subject. Names include Julia DeFelice Marguerite Murphy Kathleen Hodgdon Israel Macowaley Mary Ennis Harold Webb Evelyn Bullock Dana Bierbere and others. A second group earned no marks below 80 percent but stayed under 85, featuring Olive Coggeshall Annie Dunbar Joseph Kelley Dorothy Kenney and several Matheson Brelsford and Dunbar siblings among others.
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C M. JH
Colt Memorial High School
Julia DeFelice
Marguerite Murphy
Kathleen Hodgdon
Israel Macowely
Mary Ennis Harold Webb
Evelyn Bullock
Dana Bieerbere
Olive Coggeshall
Annie Dunbar
Joseph Kelley
Dorothy Kenney
George Matheson
George Stuart
Anna Brelsford
Raymond Card
Luciano Capone
William Rinaldi
Ruth Weaver
Anna Brown
Maybelle Cote
Doris Dunbar
Irene Gallagher
Madeline Holt
Charlotte LeClair
Margaret Matheson
Norma Mathewson
Veronica McClure
Kathleen McDonough
Annie McGovern
Regina Morris
Mary Sullivan
Genevieve Tucy
Frances Wood
Deathless Song of Payne and Home Sweet Home Origins
John Howard Payne, born in New York on June 9, 1792, wrote the widely popular Home Sweet Home after adapting Charles Kemble’s Clari the Maid of Milan while starving in a Paris garret. The immediate success led to over 100,000 copies sold in the first year and the tune became a staple in Europe and America for decades.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Howard Payne
New York City
Charles Kemble
Covent Garden Theater
London
Payne
Clari
Milan
Paris
Europe
United States
Sermon on Virginia preached before Adventurers for Virginia
A long sermon by Rev. William Symonds is noted as part of old publications to be sold at auction. It proclaims Virginia as fertile beyond England and urges Christian aims for the colony, though the audience was largely immigrant and not well prepared for a new life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White-Chappel
Virginia
William Symonds
Christian Science Monitor
England
Benjamin M. Carey
Maria L. Carey
Bristol
Rhode Island
Metacom Avenue
Sylvester Munro
Henry R. Congdon
John W Babbitt
Coleman Chase
William T O'Donnell
R. I
Temperate Habits Urged In Diet And Drink
An editorial stresses moderation in both meals and beverages, urging men to guard health and temper passions by avoiding excess in eating and drinking.
Endorsed at Home Doan's Kidney Pill Endorsement
Bristol resident Mr Rounds praises Doan's Kidney Pills for backache relief after using them at Hope Drug Co. The letter notes the pills were bought locally and cost 60 cents, urging others to seek Dean's Kidney Pills from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
Doan
Spencer Rounds
Pierce Ave
Hope Drug Co
Dean
Viola Dana in Please Get Married Screen Comedy
Viola Dana stars in a breezy comedy about a newlywed couple disrupted by a burglar officiant and chased by anxious parents. The pair flee to a mountain hotel with a string of mishaps while the stage comedy shines, delivering spicy yet clean humor. Sidney Drew also appears in Bunkered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viola Dana
Liittle Mountain
Sidney Drew
Fenian Invasion of Canada Suppressed by Proclamation
President Johnson on June 6 1866 forbade the Fenians a revolutionary group seeking Ireland freedom from organizing or arming in the United States to invade Canada. About 1500 Fenians including many ex Union soldiers gathered at Niagara Falls crossed into Canada June 1 and clashed with Canadian militia the next day before retreating to the U S where 700 were arrested for months.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Johnson
Ireland
United States
Niagara Falls
Good Advice for Parents From an Exchange on Courtesy
Advice stresses that children imitate what they see and hear at home and should not witness adult quarrels. It urges parents to model courtesy to give children strong examples of respectful behavior and social norms.
Cure for rheumatism prophecy spread in newspaper notice
An aged reader claims lasting relief from rheumatism after decades of failed cures. The ad promotes free distribution of The Inner Mysteries of rheumatism from an author in Maine and invites readers to request the book by mail for study and potential benefit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Ashelman
Clearwater
Hallowell
Maine
Aganfferer
Sewing Machine Parts and Repairs Available at Thames Street
Repaired cleaned adjusted parts shuttles belts needles for all makes of sewing machines. Graphophones repaired and cleaned. New and second hand machines sold on easy terms. Come one come all. Street 168 Thames opposite D Wolf Ion. J. B. Keeler agent. Open afternoons and evenings. Tel 142 W.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thames
D’wolf Ion
J. B. Keeler
Girls Buy 300 Coats On 15 A Week Salary
In Hartford a store rep reported 250 fur coat orders from girl employees earning about 15 dollars weekly. Coats cost 125 to 300 dollars and some will be paid for three to four years. Leaders say thrift and investing in War Savings Stamps could ease living costs and shorten the national economic crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilson Down
Hartford
Connecticut
Iris
Wise Spending as Foundation
Secretary Glass argues wise spending forms the base of intelligent saving. He says spending should balance earning, with restraint to preserve funds for tomorrow, emergencies, and future needs, ensuring more to save and spend later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of Treasury Glass
Thrift takes you up the ladderwaste brings you down
Public notice urges saving funds through war savings stamps with a call to thrift. The message contrasts rising gains from thrift with declines from waste, framing a wartime savings appeal.
Thrift Campaign Urges End to Unrest
Mather Lewis director of Savings at the Treasury urges New England and the nation to curb spending and save ten percent. He says thrift stamps war savings and Treasury certificates will engage citizens in government, reduce unrest, and blunt Bolshevik propaganda. He argues property owners will defend the system and profiteers could be driven out in a year with widespread saving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Wie
Mather Lewis
Savings
Treasury
Lewis
Bolshevick
United States
Washington
Savings Division
First Federal Reserve District
New
New England Residents Prove Saving Money Still Possible
A 1919 report shows New England households saving through Thrift Stamps War Savings Stamps and Treasury Savings Certificates amounting to 6.92 million dollars by October 1. The piece notes 3 800 War Savings Societies in the region and broad national investments, urging budgets and thrifty habits despite high prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
C. R. Burlingame
Statistical Department of the Savings Division
First Federal Reserve District
Treasury Savings
Rhode Island
The
Treasury
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E. W. Weaver
Pierce Avenue
F. T. Remieres
Hope and
Bradford Streets
Staples Coal Company
State Street
H.C.S
Wss
Aly ZS
H.C. L
N. E
Telephone
Providence
Providence Telephone Company
Hope and Bradford Sts
Bristol, R. I
William W. Franklin & Go
Wood St
Isaac B. Munro
Garfield Avenue
G. M. Wilbur
Union Street
Union ST
Phoenix
Talbot & Hopkins Electrical Contractors
Bradford Street
Talbot
W. Howkins
Clark’s Express
Gorham’s Express
J. H. Young
Raymond P. Smith
Burton Street
Enid Lamont
Chas. Rockwell
Hope Street
Pilkington
G. A. Bacon
Msgr
Wood Street
Henry P. Trudell
Second ST
Providence Domestic Coke
John C. Trudell
Bristol, R. L
King & CO
J. E. Doran
Court Street
Dorchester Mutual Fire Ins. Co
Boston
E. L. Watson & CO
Industrial Trust Co
Robert
J. McKay
G.W. Simmons
Constitution Street
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