Local Notices and Social Items from Town and Providence
Omar Blaisdell accepts clerical post with Brown & Sharpe Providence. Please return canning reports to Mrs Alfred M Merriman before October first. John J Connors and Miss Anna Stapleton registered intention to marry. Anniversary dance at St Elizabeth's Club Columbia Hall Wood Street Oct 5 with Sisson's orchestra. Claudia Wilson enters Brown University Women's College. Regal Shoes ad. Mrs Fred Wilbur and son Herman return from Worcester visit. Mr and Mrs Herbert M Lord return from Pacific trip. Mrs Lord attended National Woman's Beet Corps convention in Portland. Dance for Rhode Island State Guard Thirteenth Company Oct 2 at State Armory. Prof Donovan's orchestra. MEF Church sermon A Spiritual Slacker is Going Over the Top for Christ. Mrs Billy Sunday and Miss Saxe speak at 7.30. Edward Trudell and Henry Serbst Jr to Kingston College for chemical engineering. Marguerite D W Mudge wins silver cups at Newport County Fair horse show with horses Actor and Prompter.
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Oliver Blaisdell
Brown & Sharpe Company
Providence
Alfred M Merriman
Canning
John J Connors
Anna Stapleton
St. Elizabeth’s Club
Columbia Hall
Wood Street
Sisson
Claudia
Fred Wilbur
Herman
Union Street
William N. Burgess
Worcester
Mass
Herbert M Lord
Pacific Coast
Lord
Portland
State Armory
Thirteenth Company
Rhode Island State Guard
Donovan
State Street
A C McGilton
Christ
Billy
Henry Serbst
Kingston College
Marguerite D'W Mudge
Newport County Fair
Henry
Citizens urged to prioritize Fourth Liberty Loan over selling 34% bonds
An editorial warns Bristol residents against selling 34 percent Liberty Bonds to buy 42 percent Fourth Liberty Loan bonds. It argues such trading harms government funding, aims to keep bond prices from rising, and urges Americans to fund the war effort rather than seek short term speculation. The piece cites McAdoo and Pershing, stressing patriotic duty and sustained effort to win the war.
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Bristol
McAdoo
Bristol Aims to Meet Fourth Liberty Loan Quota
Four hundred thousand dollars seems large for Bristol but with 12,000 residents an average of one in three taking a $100 bond will reach the town quota. The calculation suggests a realistic path to funding the loan.
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Bristol
Epworth social and influenza updates in city notices
The Epworth League held a social with a musical program at State Street M E Church. Several residents suffer influenza or related illness including Howard Newman and Frank C Pearce. Pri Charles E Farley in France reports shell shock and shift to rear duty while recovering in hospital.
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the Phoenix
State Street
Amos S. Gorham
A. P. Nerone
Epworth League
M. E. Church
Howard Newman
Constitution Street
Newman
National India Rubber Company
Frank C Pearce
Court Street
Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene
High Street
Arthur J. Myers
Earth
Heaven
Bernard Farley
Pri
Charles E. Farley
Co .D, 101St U. S. Engineers
France
Tennis Tournament Opens at Excelsior Courts
The tennis tournament begins at the Excelsior Tennis Courts in Silver Creek on October 5 with events in ladies singles, men's singles and mixed doubles. Open to all, entry costs 25 cents payable to W W Perry. prizes are US thrift stamps.
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Excelsior Tennis Courts
Silver Creek
W W Perry
Colored servicemen sent to Camp Devens from local board
Two men from the Sixth Division were sent to Camp Devens for general military duty. Osceola FE Ayler of Portsmouth and Adam M Dinkins of Middletown were among those dispatched Wednesday by the Local Selection Board.
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Camp Devens
Osceola FE Ayler
Portsmouth
Adam M Dinkins
Middletown
Obituary of Maria D Agrela in 17 Shaws Lane
Mrs Maria D Agrela wife of Antone D Agrela died Wednesday at her home from Spanish influenza developing into pneumonia Age 22 years one month She married last January Survived by husband Funeral at St Elizabeths Church Mass at 9 o clock by Rev Francisco Veiria Interment at St Marys Cemetery
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Maria D'Agrela
Antone D’agrela
Shaw’s Lane
St Elizabeth's Church
Francisco Veiria
St Mary's Cemetery
Death of Mrs Marianicolo Cariglio at 4 Usher Street
Mrs Marianicolo Cariglio wife of Santo Cariglio died yesterday at her home from Spanish influenza developing into pneumonia at age 43. She is survived by her husband. The funeral will be held tomorrow at 9 am at the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.
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Marianicolo Cariglio
Santo Cariglio
Usher Street
Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Mrs Inez L Molter Dies in Providence After Illness
Mrs Inez L Molter 40s formerly of this town died in Providence Wednesday night after a monthlong illness from heart disease. She was born to Capt Edward Sherman and Margaret Erwin Sherman and survived by three brothers Samuel E Hiram T Andrew E and sister Mrs Mary Adams. Funeral at her brother Samuel Sherman 90 Union Street is private with interment at a later date.
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Inez L Molter
Providence
Edward and
Margaret
Erwin) Sherman
Bristol Ferry
Samuel E
Hiram T
Browdence
Andrew E
New York
Mary Adams
Samuel F. Sherman
Union Street
Mrs Agnes Conaty Rites Held For Widow Of Bernard Conaty
Agnes Ahearn Conaty widow of Bernard Conaty died Wednesday at St Josephs Hospital from pneumonia linked to Spanish influenza. Survived by three ill children, a mother Mrs Margaret Ahearn, brothers Herbert and John Ahearn. Funeral 8:30 from 80 Dover St Providence to Church of the Blessed Sacrament with high mass. interment Mount Pleasant.
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Agnes (Ahearn
John F Conaty
Dover Street
Providence
Church of the Blessed Sacrament
Bristol
Mount Pleasant
Not a German Spy Scout Mahoney Arrested After Disturbance
William Mahoney known as Scout Mahoney was mistaken for a German spy by about 100 school children at Byfield Mall area. He was rescued by police after causing a disturbance on Hope and Franklin streets and tossing a crepe emblem from the Home for Aged Women. He was arrested for drunkenness and revelling, arraigned, and bail set at 100 dollars with case continued to Monday in the Fifth District Court.
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William Mahoney
Mahoney
Hope Street
Franklin Street
Mary C. Bowen
Hope
Franklin Strets
Dwyer
Rohrman
Justice of the Peace
Philip Brady
Fifth District Court
Ford Sundays and War Time Gasoline Tips
In four months U S gasoline supply fell by 77 000 000 gallons while kerosene rose 64 006 000 as wartime efficiency urged motorists to equip Fords with the J E S Gasifier. Also offered are good work shoes and children boots and a rental tenement at 868 Hope St, Mrs Helen F A Drury.
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U.S
Uncle Sam
Hall's Catarrh Medicine Ad Promises Reward and Cure
An old advertisement claims a one hundred dollar reward for an incurable catarrh case and extols Hall's Catarrh Medicine as a long trusted blood purifier. It cites thirty five years of use, promises visible health improvement, and urges readers to send for testimonials while noting price per bottle and distribution by F J Cheney Co, Toledo Ohio.
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Hall
F J.cheney & Co
Prope Toledo
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