Miss Anna Middleton Dies in Providence at 81
Miss Anna Elizabeth Middleton died Saturday at Rhode Island Hospital Providence after treatment. She lived with her sister Alicia Middleton on the William DeWolf estate at Pappoose squaw and was in her eighties. Born at Bolton Plantation on the Ashley River near Charleston she was daughter of Nathaniel Russell Middleton and Anna DeWolf. Her father was former president of the College of Charleston. Canon James DeWolf Perry will conduct rites and the body will be sent to Magnolia Cemetery Charleston for burial.
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Anna Elizabeth Middleton
Rhode Island
Providence
Miss Middleton
Alicia Hopton Middleton
William DeWolf
Pappoosesquaw
Bolton Plantation
Ashley River
Charleston
South Carolina
Nathaniel Russell Middleton
Anna Elizabeth DeWolf
Middleton
College of Charleston
Cambridge
Mass
St Michael's Church of
Bristol
James DeWolf Perry
Episcopal Diocese of
Magnolia Cemetery
Funeral for Joseph Rodriques Held after Illness
The funeral for Joseph Rodriques of this town was held after a several months illness. He died Saturday at the Wallum Lake Sanatorium.
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Joseph Rodriques
Wallum Lake Sanatorium
Helio therapy emerges as evolving science in medical practice
Donald C. Stockbarger argues that sun UV rays drive helio therapy benefits and notes its long history, revival in the eighteenth century, and growing but incomplete science. He calls for collaboration between physicians and physicists to advance understanding and application in therapy.
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Epeeresae
Chile
Ce Tiriboce
Avery
Lght
Donald C. Stockbarger
The
North American Review
Portuguese Shoemaker Dies in Bristol Family Hails Loss
The death occurred this forenoon at 25 Roma Street from illness. The deceased, born in Portugal, had lived in Bristol about ten years and worked as a shoemaker at the National India Rubber Company factory prior to his illness. He was 25, married with a daughter.
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Roma ‘Street
Trifefment
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Portugal
Bristol
National’ India Rubber Company
Bristol Home for Destitute Children Acknowledges Donations
The Board of Managers of the Bristol Home for Destitute Children expresses thanks for recent contributions. Items donated include ice cream, vegetables, fruit, two beds and mattresses, sugar, clothing, cereal, toys, and a seamstress service, from multiple donors such as Mrs. Samuel Kinder, Mrs. J Winthrop DeWolf Jr, Mr James Church, Mrs C B Rockwell Jr, Mrs O L Bosworth, Miss Claudia DeWolf, Harold DeWolf, Newman Bros, Mrs Rockwell Jr, Mrs Levy, Mrs A G B Steele, and Mrs S C Wardwell.
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Bristol Home For
Samuel Kinder
J. Winthrop DeWolf, Jr
Halsey DeWolf
James Church
C. B. Rockwell, Jr
O L. Bosworth
Claudia DeWolf
Harold DeWolf
Acquired Needs Turon about is fault play
In San Francisco Chronicle style this fragment hints at thrift versus luxury during an era of invention. The remark frames needs as evolving with time and technology, contrasting acquirement with necessity as a guiding tension.
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Turon
San Franciscohronicle
Buick
Eleven Players Hit Fifteen Home Runs This Season
Eleven players combined for 15 home runs with Baker J Rippel Halbert Foxy Marshall Higbee Drummey Fogg Danis Sousa Notte each contributing two or one.
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Baker
J. Rippel
Ugh
Halbert
Three Base Hits Recorded By Twenty-Five Players
Thirty-eight three base hits were produced by 25 players. Halbert led with five, followed by Darcy with three, and multiple players including J Garvin Berry Young Andrade Sousa Hough E Mortenson each with two. The rest listed had one hit.
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Halbert
Darcy
J. Garvin
Berry
Young
Andrade
Sousa
Hough
E. Mortenson
Moore
H Gladue
Gallagher
J Kelley
Perry
Gray
Higbee
Quinton
Biber
Servant
W. Emmett
Gardiner
Greenwood
Chapman
Danis
Cavallaro
Two-base Hit Leaders List From Season Standings
A season tally shows Greenwood and W Emmett leading with multiple two-base hits. Other players such as Sousa Darcy Flanagan Marshall Hough and several more register two or more two-base hits, with many names listed in descending counts.
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Greenwood
W. Emmett
Sousa
Darcy
Flanagan
Marshall
Hough
Servant
F Garvin
FE. Mortenson
Chapman
Remick
G Mortenson
L. Rinaldi
Agromick
Herzig
Gray
E Menard
Moran
H Gladue
M Cavallaro
Regmer
Gardiner
I. Menard
J Garvin
Campbell
Enright
Halbert
T Baker
WO Ronske
Cieeee
Bas
Dlasers
Batting leaders exceed .350 with top extra-base totals
Players with average over 350 posted high extra base counts. Hough 35, Sousa 34, E Mortenson 33, Halbert 32, Darcy 27, Emmett 27, Baker 25, Greenwood 25, Kelley 17, Gladue 16. The figures highlight power among top hitters.
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Fliat Pike
L. Kelley
Regnier
Ruggiero
W. Gladue
Mgr. Marshall
Infidi
H Sousa
Young
Ethier
Gallagher
Bb Roberts
Chapman
Gardiner
Quinton
F Cavallaro
Rippel
Baker
Marshall
Canishee
H. Gladue
Gray
Moore
Hough
Sousa
E Mortenson
Halbert
Darcy
Emmett
Greenwood
Kelley
Gladue
Biography Snippet Lights Walter Jerruld Poet Origins
A brief biographical note on Walter Jerruld references early American poetry and links to figures such as Oliver Wendell Holmes. It mentions Holmes's grandmother and Anne Bradstreet in a context hinting at literary lineage and influence.
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Walter Jerruld
Guys
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Geum Dinerhereft
Anne Bradstreet
Sunday School Board Assembly at State Street ME Church
The State Street ME Church Sunday School Board will hold an evening event next Friday. Frederick G. Blaisdell will preside, and Rev. Jesse H. Martin will speak on Advanced Sunday School Work. A business meeting follows supper with officer elections and reports. Miss Alice Morgan leads the Optimist Class in arranging the program.
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Spe
State Street ME
Frederick G. Blaisdell
Jesse H. Martin
Warren M. E
R. J. Chrystie
Alice Morgan
Automobile Designer Here on Visit to Parents
Theodore C. Hobbs and his wife from Detroit are visiting his parents Mr and Mrs William C Hobbs this week. Hobbs works as an automobile designer in General Motors art and color department and his exclusive designs for the 1929 Pontiacs were approved by company executives including President Sloan. He also did the final draft of the 1929 Chevrolet with department collaboration.
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Theodore C. Hobbs
Detroit
Mich
Mr. Hobb
William C. Hobbs
Hobbs
General Motors Company
Sloan
Field Day and Clam Bake Draw Rhode Island Group
A town expects a sizable group for the Rhode Island Fish and Game Protective Association field day and a South Seekonk Gun Club clam bake next Saturday Sept 15 in Rehoboth Mass opposite Shad Factory Pond. Events begin at 10 am with a 2 pm clam bake. Activities include a clay pigeon shoot bait and fly casting and an exhibition of hunting dogs. Members of the Bristol Gun Club will compete in the clay pigeon shoot.
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Rhode Island Fish and Game Protective Association
South Seekonk Gun Club
Rehoboth
Mass
Shad Factory Pond
Bristol Gun Club
Bridge Benefit and College Days at Rockwell Hall
Sept 20 bridge event for Excelsior Tennis Club at Rockwell Hall in the evening and Sept 23 Sunday matinee and evening of musical comedy College Days. Pastime Theatre under St. Rita's Girls Club presents this benefit for Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church.
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Excelsior
Rockwell Hall
St. Rita’s Girls Club
Our Lady of Mt Carmel
Nights of Jollity While Wife Was Away
A Washington Star column recalls a bachelor life after marriage with humorous vignettes of nights spent apart. The narrator contrasts pre marriage routines with postmarriage routines and the sense of dislocation in domestic life.
Star Representation on Flag TieStaves
Fragmentary note on the US flag stars and representation of states. It argues against one star symbolizing a single state and notes the union’s collective nature. The text is garbled but centers on symbolic interpretation of stars and states.
Creters of Stars and the Interference of Rays
A fragmentary note discusses how starlight color arises from interference of rays as light travels through Earth's atmosphere and alinasphere, noting the variable intensity of colors observed. The text preserves the idea of atmospheric effects on starlight.
Right Way to Progress
A fragmentary saying emphasizes that progress comes not from scolding but from earnest effort to do right. It contrasts critique with constructive endeavor toward proper action.
Purpose of Evil Concept Reflected by B R Haydon
A reflective note cites B R Haydon on evil as generally pursued under hope of gain. It contrasts with virtue’s elusive aims and questions moral motives and outcomes.
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B. R Haydon
Food for Birds in Arctic Summer Bounty
An English ornithologist traverses the Oral mountains and Petchora valley from early April to describe how Arctic summers briefly melt snow to reveal berry crops. The stored berries beneath the snow feed innumerable birds, preserving a rich Old World bird population each season.
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Oral
Petchora
Chicago Journal
Sahara
Happier Every Year and the Allure of Maturity
In a reflective musing drawn from The Letters of George ENot selected by Ro Brimley Johnson, the narrator doubts that youth was the happiest period and argues that progression toward maturity brings solid good. He questions the idea that adulthood is less happy than childhood and critiques the notion of a constant comfortable decline.
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George Enot
Ro Brimley Johnson
No Use for Soft Couches in Northern Antiquity
Estelle HE Ries notes in the Mentor magazine that northern peoples favored hard beds of straw on benches or chests, with rough skins for covers. She explains that southern races did not evolve feather beds due to climate, and Saxons continued this practice for centuries even among kings, reflecting a taste for firm sleeping surfaces.
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Estelle HE Ries
In the Making and Patience in Craft
A reflective piece on slow development and patient progress in art and life. It notes that early outputs may appear imperfect but eventual completion satisfies. It quotes a Scottish artist on not showing unfinished work to children or fools and emphasizes mature mind handling immature things.
Sing Sing Ossining Names Origin and Late Village Incorporation
The name Sing Sing and the adjacent Ossining derive from an Indian term meaning place of stone. The village was called Sing Sing until 1901 when residents pushed to change it after objections to the prison name. Sing Sing village was incorporated in 1813, twelve years before the prison began there.
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Sing Sing
Ossining
Fragmentary OCR Note on Rope Walk and Local Sale
The readable fragments describe a rope factory or rope-walk area and a sale of goods. Mentions of Angrained to Popular speech and the rope factory suggest a historical note about labor or urban change. Names, dates, and places are unclear due to garbled OCR text.
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Rene
Good and Bad Qualities of the Tree of Heaven
The ailanthus tree of heaven has drawbacks but is not destructive. Its roots do not spread like Carolina poplar roots to damage sewers or curbs. It grows rapidly in poor soil, with the staminate flowers producing an unpleasant odor as its main fault.
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Walla
Weather and the Moon Significance in Weather Forecasts
Pathfinder Magazine notes that the moon appearing far south is not a reliable weather sign. The article argues that the moon moves uniformly and its position can be predicted for centuries, unlike weather, which is inherently variable.
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Pathfinder Magazine
Penalty of Wealth and the Wise in Chinatown
Hi Hu the sage of Chinatown warns that great wealth often attracts self styled advisors who claim to know how to protect it. The remark emphasizes caution against pretenders and the dangers of gold attracting flattery and risk.
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Hi Hu
Chinatown
Washington
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