Bristol and Warren Baseball Series Set for Twilight League Players
The Bristol and Warren Twilight League boards agree to a best three of five series using local Twilight League players from each town. First game September 25 at 3 PM in Bristol as part of the 250th anniversary celebration. Warren and Bristol committees name rosters and banquet committee.
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Bristol and
Warren
Bristol and Warren
Warren Twilight League
Bristol
George Curran
Warren League
Donat Arel
Philip Webbe
Sevigny
Rippel
Burdge
Smusz
Emmett
Riopel
Young
Fish Mello Matdox
Greenwood
Bristol Twilight League
Andrade
Garvin
Sousa
Ethier
Marshall
Gallaeher
Harvey Gladue
Baker
Fire department field day and clam bake announced
Community events list a Sept 7 field day and clam bake by the National India Rubber Company fire department at Thayer farm. An Oct 2 reception for Worthy Matron and Worthy Patron of the Order Eastern Star at Colt Memorial High School is scheduled.
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National India Rubber Company
Thayer Farm
Order Eastern Star
Colt Memorial High School
Eagles Carrying Power and Load Facts
An eagle can carry about 10 or 1 percent pounds. Occasionally a larger weight has been carried a short distance.
Early Harvard Student Prodigy Zachariah Bridgen
The reminiscence notes a 1657 Harvard precedent of a student who worked through college. Zachariah Bridgen entered at fourteen, graduated four years later, served as waiter and bell ringer, and was billed for board lodging fire and candles wood and corn purchases. Education cost ranged from 100 to 200 dollars in silver and groceries.
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Harvard
Zachariah Bridgen
Zachariah
Charlestown
French tailor first to conceive sewing machine idea
The Paris telegraph report notes France marks the centenary of the sewing machine with M Barthelemy Thimon der of Arbresse Rhone credited as the first to conceive a machine to replace hand sewing. Thimonnier, a tailor, quit his business to pursue the invention and in 1830 secured a patent despite limited mechanics knowledge. An inspector of mines later supported his workshop in Paris.
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France
M. Barthelemy Thimonder
Arbresse
Rhone
Paris
London Daily Telegraph
Thimonnier
Helium Discovery and Early US Production Timeline
The text traces helium’s United States production origins in 1917 after entering World War I. It notes helium’s 1905 discovery in natural gas at the University of Kansas by Cady and McFarland, and Ramsay’s 1895 discovery of helium in minerals with its ideal gas properties for balloons and airships.
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United States
United States Bureau of Mines
University of Kansas
Cady
Doctor McFarland
Sir William Ramsay
Observance of Sabbaths Across World Religions
The text notes that besides Christian Sunday many faiths observe a sabbath on different days. It lists Jewish Saturday Moham medan Friday Egyptian Thursday Assyrian Wednesday Persian Tuesday and Greek Monday. It states every day may be observed as a sabbath by some group.
Basketball’s Beginnings at the YMCA in Springfield, 1891
The first game of basketball arose in 1891 at the YMCA in Springfield Massachusetts. It was created to replace outdoor football and baseball during winter.
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Springfield
Mass
Uses for Cornstalks
Cornstalks may be made into paper golf balls and fountain pens, among other useful articles.
St David celebration customs across nations linked to Wales
An article from the Montreal Gazette describes St David day traditions in Wales and Greece. Welsh children visit houses with wooden swallows and sing swallow songs. in Oxford Jesus College marks the day with a St David toast in a half pint draught from a silver bowl donated in 1732 by Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn.
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St. Davidse
Montreal
Jesus College
Wales
Oxford
Watkin Williams- Wynn
Man's Debt to the World Fragment
The text argues the world does not owe the average man money while the man owes much to the world. It questions the person who accepts life by opportunity rather than obligation and hints at deeper themes of duty and purpose.
War on Moth Pests Expands Biological Help
More than 93 million parasite enemies of gypsy and browntail moths have been released nationwide. About 50 species participate, with roughly 14 established and actively combating the pests.
Beauty tips from a Paris eye makeup expert
A French cosmetician shares at home eye makeup methods to brighten eyes and darken lashes. She instructs about shadowing brows with pencil, applying eyelash makeup, and choosing eye shadow colors to suit different eye and hair colors.
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Paris
Voltaire Recovers From Smallpox After Month in Bed
In 1723 Voltaire endured a siege of smallpox and recovered after a month in bed. He praised the remedy as life saving and claimed the doctor gave eight emetics and forced him to drink a hundred pints of lemonade. The father of a future life partner received this optimistic report.
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Voltaire
Detroit News
Lumley Castle Claims Oldest Inhabited Status in Two Counties
Lumley castle near Chester le Street England may be the oldest inhabited castle in Northumberland and Durham. Built as a manor house around 933 it remained so for about four centuries. In the 14th century Sir Ralph Lumley remodeled it by adding four corner towers and connecting the structure on three sides. The Lumley family has occupied it continuously since its original Saxon-era erection.
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Lumley Castle
Chester-ley Street
England
Northumberland
Durham
Ralph Lumley
Lumley
Presidential Office Vacant In 12 Hour Gap
The term ends at midnight March 3 and the new president is typically sworn in at midnight March 4 creating a 12 hour vacancy. The law does not specify oath timing and emergencies could permit an oath earlier on March 4, though it has not occurred.
Why the Peony Grows in China and Legend Behind It
The article explains the peony name origin from a legend in which Pluto turns his physician Paen into a flower. It notes the flower’s high value in China for medicinal uses and references the Country Home column.
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Pluto
Paen
China
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