Lecture series kicks off winter talks at Defiance Hall
Prof. John E. rouses audience in a first of a winter lecture series hosted by the Bristol Sup Farmers Association. Friday gathering at Hope Street Defiance Hall drew good attendance and set the tone for talks scheduled through the season.
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Breseoteeal Eli
Ibert Buelene
John E
Rhoeoliland Ping Folege
Bristol Sup Farmers Association
Defiance Hall
Hope Street
Local Notes and Births in This Town
In this town on Nov 26 a son was born to Mr and Mrs Robert Henry Manning of this town. On Nov 27 in Truesdale Hospital a son was born to Mr and Mrs Anthony Sylvia of this town. Nov 29 Rose Furtado died in town at 1 year 6 months. Real estate transfers include Nellie F Masse of Providence selling to August Carreira of this town with five Harbor View Plat lots.
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Charles
Erie
Charles Ear
Majden
Mass
Robert Henry
Robert H. Manning
Nero
Peter
Peter Nero
Sylvia
Truesdale Hospital
Anthony Sylvia
Ransfers
Nellie F
August Carreira
Harbor View
Death of Rev Frederick Spenfold Dignitary of St Stephen’s Providence
Rev Frederick Spenfold rector of St Stephen's Church Providence died Sunday from a cerebral hemorrhage after a month of illness. Born in New York March 10 1874 he held multiple church posts including Quincy and Racine and served as WWI chaplain. Survived by widow Ethel Frisby and four children, funeral set for 10 AM at St Stephen's.
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Frederick
Jane Papen Hospital
Mr. Penfold
Frank Damrosch
Trinity Church
St. Michael’s Brotherhood
New York City
Penfold
General Theological Seminary
Nashotah House
Nashotah
Wis
Starkey
Leonard
Mount Calvary Church
Baltimore
Holy Cross Church
Quincy
the Good Shepherd
St Paul's Church
Marinette
St Luke's Church
Racine
United States
Milwaukee
1121St Artillery
St Stephen's Church
Providence
George McClellan Fiske
St Mary's East
Mount St Gabriel
Peekskill
Bell From Saluda Steamboat Steel Towered Savannah Church
The Savannah Missouri church bell, once the Saluda steamboat bell, rang as a death knell during the 1852 Missouri River disaster. Found on river banks, bought for 17 dollars, it was placed in the church tower and has sounded through wars and three quarters of a century.
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Savannah
Missouri River
Weston
Francin T. Belt
Bell
Making Them at Home Frank N Doubleday Remarks
Frank N Doubleday, a leader of the $100,000 sailors reading room project in New York honoring Joseph Conrad, says Conrad is not sailors preferred author and that the room will mix lighter books. He recalls a tale of a millionaire who hides the dining room hats and coats to suit quick lunches.
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Frank N Doubleday
Joseph Conrad
New York
Conrad
Duchess
Wilkie Collins
Millonaire
George
Study of Plant Water Needs Moves to Arizona Desert Lab
Dr. Burton B. Livingston of Johns Hopkins, secretary of the American Association for the Advancement of Defence, to conduct a summer program on plant water relations in the Arizona desert. He will head the Carnegie Institution’s desert laboratory in Tucson, resuming research halted years ago with new apparatus promising advances.
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Burton B. Livingston
Johns Hopkins University
American Association For the Advancement of Defence
Arizona
Carnegie Institution of Washington
Tucson
Doctor Livingston
Glass Made Without Sand From Geranium Process At Cornell
Chemists at Cornell University report a sandless glass made from a germanium compound. The flaky brittle crystalline material, extracted from zinc oxide, could replace silica in glass and may have medicinal properties. Cornell is producing it in gram quantities from raw material.
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Cornell University
Cornell
Popular Mechanics Magazine
Electrician Foils Theft With Home Made Flashlight Photo
Fort Worth electrician Er R Brown reports missing sums from his safe and shares a police photo of a borrowed employee rifling the safe. The image, captured by flashlight through a homemade electrical device, underscores the quick amateur sleuthing that followed.
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Er. R. Brown
Fort Worth
Texas
New Crystal Glass Dance Floor Installed in Muuldenhead
A crystal glass dance floor is being installed in Muuldenhead England with about 400 electric lamps beneath it. The lighting system offers six color combinations and up to 160 lights can be lit simultaneously. The floor measures roughly 25 feet by 20 feet.
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Muuldenhead
England
Rogers Free Library December book display announced
Rogers Free Library will offer forty three books on December first featuring Tales of Clipper Ships The Story of the Great War and The Conquest of New England by immigrant authors plus career guides and travel tales The Reference Room adds Britannica volumes and a new dictionary. fiction includes many notable titles and authors from Chesterton to Grey and Burnett The Pastime Theatre presents Man Proposes and Woman Disposes with Miss Caroline Maturi and Prof Giglio offering songs and a two act play amid local society support.
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Rogers Free Library
Fox C. Smith
Roland G. Usher
New England
Daniel Chauncey Brewer
Ruth Leigh
Miss Leigh
James Norman Hall
C C. Bowsfield
Graham McNamee
R J Bennett
Father Brown
Gilbert Chesterton
Lady
Margaret Widdemar
Hippy Buchan
Ethel Boileau
Harold McGrath
Grace Richmond
Bob Hampton
Joseph Lincoln
Cap'n Warren
Anna Katharine Green
Mary Roberts Rinehart
George Gibbs
Rover
Tom Swift
Booth Tarkington
Eleanor Porter
Augusta Seaman
Anna of Grean Gables
Montgomery
Lamb
Shakespeare
Frances Burnett
Wiese Cfe
Princip Pessa Elena Society
Sons of Italy
Caroline Maturi
Boston
Salvatore A. Giglio
Ritorna Vincitor
Aiday Verdi
Morire
Papin
the Star
Rogers
D’amor Stal
Ali Rose
Trovatore
Verdi
Miss Maturi
Seitz
Cavatina
Raff
C Fazzano
P Iasiello
C Cavallaro
G Tedesco
Ro Amendola
G. Bastardo
Frank Barbato
Ladies Minstrel planned by Hope Circle No 70 D of I
The Ladies Minstrel will be staged at the Pastime Theatre on January 10 and 11 with an all female chorus soloists and interlocutor. Miss Winifred Walsh chairs the planning committee joined by Mrs William Bottomley Mrs John Lannon Mrs Minnie Cashin and Miss Nora F E Dwyer.
Christmas and charity events announced for Rockwell YMCA and local churches
A sequence of community fundraisers and socials is listed including a Rockwell Hall YMCA card party on Nov 30 organized by the Ladies Committee, Tea and Sale at the Home for Aged Women, Christmas Sales at Memorial Chapel and vestries, an old fashioned dance at Artillery Armory, a Vestry Christmas Sale at the State Street MFE Church, a Bean Supper and Christmas Sale at First Baptist Church, and a Minstrel Show at Pastime Theatre hosted by Hope Circle and Daughters of Isabella on Jan 10–11.
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Rockwell Hall
YMCA
Ladies’ Committee
Franklin Street
Memorial Chapel
the Congregational Club
Artillery Armory
State Street
Co UC
Bristol Train of Artillery
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Jeannbeyy
Gaspee
Ladies’ Minstrel
Ieee
Ali Imprevamientas
Nzid' Restauraat
Hala Good Buy
Bath
Watt
Regen Frank
Stevia
Renaebie
Foor Newman
S. S. Pierce Co
Invalids Coffe
McCann's
van Camp
Babbitt's
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Newman's
Hamburg
Newman
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