Ingenious stove and family memories from Ma Holmes
The narrator recalls a bricked fireplace with a base burner stove and a straight draft pipe to Ma Holmes bedroom. He praises the inventor’s ingenuity, notes Ma Holmes’ kindness and a memorable obituary for a beloved physician, and recounts a childhood measurement game with a tape, learning letters and words along the way.
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Ma Holmes
Ingenieur
Pa Doc
The
Phoenix
Sammie
Lambie
Merton
Launch of APC-4 at Herreshoff Honors Longtime Employees
The APC-4 launch at Herreshoff Manufacturing Company honors 59 long-time workers led by general manager Carl W. Haffenreffer. The event features Mrs John Millar as sponsor with her daughters Barbara and Jane, presenting a wine bottle christening container. Contracts for more vessels promise activity through mid next year.
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Herreshoff Manufacturing Company
Carl W. Haffenreffer
John Millar
Barbara
Jane
Haffenreffer
Herreshoff
East
Fred F Hodedon
Charles W Wall
Ralph Bradbury
Willard S. Kenney
J. Thomas Ashton
Thomas P Brightman
Christie
Lewis Frederick Moore
Harry Starkey
Harvey Dunn
Manuel King Charles Peterson
Charles Davis
A. Sidney Dew
Walter Handy
M. L. Mott
Napoleon Patenaude
Obituary for Rev Eugene V Hughes A Bristol Priest
Rev Eugene V Hughes dies after years as pastor of St Teresa's Bristol born Fall River 1887 ordained 1910 at Louvain served Bristol parish from 1929 a 30th anniversary noted in 1949 burial at Mount St Marys Pawtucket Mass attended by parishioners and family survivors include brothers Edward Charles and John plus sisters Anna and Sadie list of active bearers and guard of honor follows.
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Eugene V. Hughes
Francis P. Keough
Providence
St. Teresa’s Church
Pawtucket
Eugene V .Hughes
St. Josephs’ Hospital
Mount St. Mary’s Cemetery
Fr. Hughes
Bristol
St. Mary’s Church
Keough
Fall River
Owen
Sarah E Hughes
Holy Cross
American College of Louvain University
Louvain
Joseph J. Fox
Green Bay
Wisconsin
Pascoag
St. Joseph
Hughes
Edward W Hughes
Assumption Church
Charles
Charles IL. Hughes Manager of the Bristol County
Providence Journal and Evening Bulletin
John J Hughes
Kingston Avenue Hospital
Brooklyn
N. Y
Anna L. M. Hughes
Child Street
Warren
Sadie E. Hughes
Edward Hughes
John J. Salesses
John Clears
Edgar E Johnson
Albert J Twomer
William D Slattery
Thomas McHale
Fred Gregory
James H Keenan
Julius del Papa
Lawrence McCarthy
John Hughes
Samuel McDole
Arthur Tetreault
Vernon C. Norton
John J McHale
Amadeo Lucchesi
Lino Ridolfi
William Wallace
James McCorry
Edward McCaughey
Albert Pellegrini
Raymond Bertoncini
Charles F. O'Halloran
James Cherry
William Dolan
Thomas F. Forbes
Daniel Mahoney
Frank Murphy
Varnum T Barber
Oscar Lamarre
Edward Gavin
J. Everett McCabe
Arnold Lalonde
Tulio Rinaldi
Benjamin Bradley
Arthur Riel
Thomas Quinn
Edward Wall
James O'Neil
William Burns
Edward Healey
John Sullivan
John Keough
Edward King
John Winters
Fred Ball
Regent Guson Noted At Pawtucket Circle Family Gathering
Regent Guson of Pawtucket Circle attends a gathering with Isabella and daughters among others. event highlights familial ties and local society roles.
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Guson
Pawtucket Circle
Isabella
This Column for Timely Topics From Bristol
A Bristol Army letter from a local writer confirms service in the Army and mingled pride in training and discipline at a camp. The author mentions 500 other local soldiers on the honor roll in the Phoenix and asks for a gift subscription to be sent to a new address. The note thanks Charlie Otten and notes Vernon Otten left town, promising more letters later.
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Phoenix
Charlie Otten
Vernon Otten
Four Clergymen Take Part In Union Church Service
Four clergymen from three denominations led the Union Church service on Prudence Island with Rev Herbert Deck delivering the sermon. Rev Howard D. McCalmont read the Scriptures, Rev Francis Enslin led the responsive reading, and Rev Richard K. Morton offered the prayer.
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Union Church
Prudence Island
Herbert Deck
Park Congregational Church
Springfield
Mass
Howard D. McCalmont
First United Presbyterian Church
Providence
Francis Enslin
St. Petersburg
Fla
Richard K. Morton
Plymouth Union Congregational Church
Hubert F. Hill
Bristol Y. M. C
Nancy D. Bosworth
Bristol
Deck
The raft survivors tale fuels a publisher’s book pact
The narrative follows Robert Trumbull who, after reporting the 34 day Pacific raft ordeal of Dixon Aldrich and Pastula for the New York Times, turns their survival into a book The Raft. The trio endured storms hunger sharks and thirst while charting with stars and prayers, landing with nothing but driftwood canes and steel will.
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Robert Trumbull
Honolulu
New York Times
Pacific
New York
Trumbull
Harold Dixon
Gene Aldrich
Tony Pastula
Wallace
Dixon
Aldrich
Pastula
Henry
Tony
Gene
Missouri
Chief Dixon
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Harold F Green
Harry Town
George Hibbert
Herbert F Newman
Arthur P Shermen
William Cook
Manuel Cardoza
Herman Gabrielson
Leon Hayes
Otis M. Bailey
Charles Martin
William Simmons
Walter Kilner
Knute Berg
Joseph LeBrun
George A Upritchard
William King
William Liscomb
Herman Gablinske
Daniel H Bowron
David Rogers
E. J Girard
John H. Garrity
Ellen Peterson
George Coggeshall
Leonard P. Sanford
Ernest LePage
Thomas P. Brightman
William Waddicor
Eugene Byone
Adelard Sevigney
George Bourcier
Chester Polak
Lowell Smith
Lowell Wright
Knute Berg, Jr
Gabriel Ruggieri
Ernest Moren
Clarence U. Booth
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Europe
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Variety Store
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