Funeral of Miss Mary McHale Held Yesterday
The funeral of Miss Mary McHale daughter of Patrick and Mary McHale was held yesterday from her home at 118 Franklin Street to St Marys Church for high mass of requiem. Interment followed at St Marys Cemetery Warren. Miss McHale a Bristol High School and Rhode Island Normal School graduate taught in local public schools and later as a substitute. She was a skilled pianist with studies in Providence and Boston and taught many piano pupils. She is survived by nieces and nephews. Bearers were John Vaccaro Edward Doran William A Doran Thomas M McGrath Joseph E C McGrath and Thomas W McHale.
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Mary
McHale
Mary McHale
Patrick
Franklin Street
St. Mary’s Church
Wood Street
St. Mary's Cemetery
Vernon Street
Warren
Bristol High School
Rhode Island Normal School
St. Francis Xavier Convent
Providence
Boston
John Vaccaro
Edward Doran
William A Doran
Thomas M McGrath
Joseph E. C. McGrath
Town
Thomas W McHale
Brass Alloy Origin Not Native to Copper Zinc Mixture
The note states brass is an alloy of copper and zinc not found native, highlighting its composition as a copper zinc mix. It mentions brass is an alloy rather than a native metal, implying synthetic formation through alloying.
Shower and Social for Miss Jennie Pagano
Miss Jennie Pagano daughter of Mr and Mrs Frank C Pagano of 31 Garfield Avenue was guest of honor at a large shower held at Lincoln Hall Usher Avenue. About 150 friends attended from Fall River Warren and the town with 300 guests later for dancing. Pagano is to wed Gaetano Stanzione son of Mrs Fillippa Stanzione on October 21 in this town.
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Jennie Agano
Jennie/Pagajioy
Frank C Pagano
Garfield Avenue
Lincoln Hall
Usher Avenue
Pagano
Bisbane
Fall River
Warren
Gaetano Stanzione
Fillippa Stanzione
Daylight Saving Time Ends Next Week
The article explains DST ends at 2 a.m. next Sunday returning to Eastern Standard Time. It notes DST began April 28 and the gained daylight will be set back one hour tomorrow night.
Canning Tomatoes A Guide For Home Preservation
Tomatoes are an easy acid vegetable to can with vitamin rich content. Use sound ripe fruit, scald skins, and choose solid or mashed pack. Process in a steam pressure canner at 10 pounds for 10 minutes, then seal cool and store.
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Grace Viall Gray
National Canning Contest Offers 5825 Dollars in Prizes
Sears Roebuck Agricultural Foundation launches a national contest to curb food surplus with 222 cash prizes totaling 5825 dollars and a 1250 dollar grand prize for the best jar. Open to any woman or girl with entries due by October 1, 1929. details and entry blanks available from Anne Williams, director, 925 S Homan Ave Chicago NL.
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Sears- Roebuck Agricultural Foundation
Anne Williams
S. Homan Avenue
Chicago
Bristol County Festival Chorus Rehearsals Start Next Wednesday
The Bristol County Festival Chorus opens its season with a Wednesday rehearsal at the John Post Reynolds School auditorium. John B Archer returns as director as the group plans two winter and spring concerts and may rehearse pieces for the 250th town anniversary in September 1930.
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Bristol County Festival Chorus
John Post Reynolds
John B Archer
Reynolds Robinson Wedding in New York City
Miss Ivy Robinson and Reginald Rich Reynolds wed at the Little Church Around the Corner in New York City on Wednesday September 25. Attendants Miss Aileen Robinson and Rodney Reynolds shared in the ceremony before the couple embarks on a motor tour and plans to reside in Navatt Barrington Ro after October 25.
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New York City
Ivy Robinson
Reginald Rich Reynolds
Navatt
Barrington
Aileen Robinson
Rodney Reynolds
Reverend Graetz Preaches First Bristol Sermon
Rev Herbert D Graetz delivers his first sermon as pastor at Congregational Church this Sunday morning on The Master Touch at Christian Living. He resumes evening services and says he is ready to begin work in Bristol after a vacation. Mens Union Brotherhood meets at Memorial Chapel at 9 30 am.
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Congregational Church
Herbert D Graetz
Graetz
Bristol
Mens Union Brotherhood
Lewis Nowell wedding in New York City
Marriage notice for William Wardwell Lewis and Anna Chase Nowell in New York City on September 19 by Rev Dr Johns. Lewis is grandson of the late Saeut Gov William T Wardwell.
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Lewis—Nowell
New York
Johns
William Wardwell Lewis
Saeut
William T . Wardwell
Anna Chase Nowell
Death of Mrs Katherine L Wilson at Budleagh Salterton
Mrs Katherine Lippitt Tucker Wilson wife of Henry F Walson and daughter of John Hyme Thicker and the late Annie Emerson Tucker of this town died at Budleagh Salterton Sea Devon on September 24.
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Budleagh Salterton
Sea Devon
England
Katherine Lippitt (Tucker) Wilson
Henry F Walson
John Hyme Thicker
Annie Fmerson Tucker
This
Word sets the meaning spectrum across the Oxford list
The Living Age notes that editors spent a 30MM word treatise on set with its many senses. The sun sets in the west and a surgeon sets a broken arm illustrate meanings while a woman bears three sets of twins and a yachtsman notes the set of sails showing the word’s wide reach across actions and objects.
Edison Day Marks 50 Years Since Invention in Rhode Island
Rhode Island plans an Edison Day celebration on Oct 21 with a Narragansett Hotel dinner and a radio broadcast re creating the 1879 carbon glow moment. State leaders, national figures, and civic groups join Governor Case in honoring Thomas Alva Edison as the world observes the 50th anniversary of the incandescent lamp.
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Edison
Rhode Island
Thomas Alva Edison
Narragansett Hotel
Providence
Rhode Islanders
Dearborn
Illinois
Henry Ford
Hoover
Jane Addams
James R Angell
Yale
Nichola
Murray Butker
S Parkes Cadman
John W Dawns
Charles G Dawes
George Eastman Harvey Firestone
Henrys Ford
Harry Emerson Fosdick
James W. Gerard
Will Ho Hays
John Grier Hibben
Charles Frans Hughes
Clarence H Mackay
Andrew W . Mellon
Dwight W Morrow
Frank B Neaves
John J Pershing
John TD Rockefeller Jr
Chas M Schwab
Stephen So Wise
Owen D Young
Norman & Case
National General Committee
Francis A Gallagher, Jr
Electrical League of
The
Electrical League
Depew’s Birthday Story Of Methuselah Style Wit
The late Chauncey M. Depew famously recounted a birthday tale comparing himself to Methuselah. He recalled a compliment on his ancient age with a playful jab about not looking a day over 930, and a street encounter where a woman joked her feebleminded father would enjoy meeting him.
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Chauncey M. Depew
Methuselah
Twilight League prize list on display at Duffy's Confectionery
The Twilight Baseball League announces prizes for leaders in batting, fielding, runs, hits, home runs, total bases, and pitches. Awards include bats, gloves, sweaters, hats, a neck tie, statuary, and a trophy for a winning team. A banquet may be postponed due to World Series attendance. Jas F Duffy will announce details.
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Twilight Baseball League
Duffy's Confectionery
Hope Street
Coughlin
H W Church
Sunderland
L. Tortorice
Remick
Albert Hartley
Ambrose Destlets
Ethier
Fred E Suzman
Cooper
George Solomonese
Sousa
Jas F Duffy
Fox Ormond
Cranstons
Stall & Dean
Renick
Greenwood
Philadelphia
Funeral of Mrs Sarah E Spooner
Services for Mrs Sarah E Spooner widow of William H Spooner were held at her Hope Street home. She died age 94 years 8 months with many relatives and church group members in attendance. Rev James J Goodacre officiated. pallbearers included John W Church and William B Spooner Jr. Burial followed in North Cemetery Bristol Neck.
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Sarah E. Spooner
William H Spooner
Hopestret
James J Goodacre
First Congregational Church
Spooner
Congregational Church
Oliver School
Bristol Female Charitable Society
Board of Managers
The
Home For Aged Women
Home Department
First Congregational Church Sunday School
Woman's Missionary Society
Congregational Club
John W Church
Edward P Church
Frank H. Buffinton
Robert A. McCaughey
William B Spooner, Jr
Ralph Kinder
Bristol Neck
Obituary Mrs Henry E Wilson
Mrs Katherine Lippitt Tucker Wilson died in Budleigh Salterton England on Sept 24 at about 46. She was wife of Henry Elcock Wilson and daughter of John H Tucker and the late Annie Tucker of this town. She was born in Providence and moved here as a child. She excelled in tennis golf and equestrian activities and left a wide circle of friends. She married Wilson on April 21 1908 in St Michaels Church. Last December 10 on a voyage to England the Celtic ran aground near Roche’s Point but all passengers were rescued.
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Henry E. Wilson
Budleigh
Salterton
South Devon
England
Katherine Lippitt (Tucker) Wilson
Henry Elcock Wilson
John H. Tucker
Annie Emerson Tucker
John H. Tucker, Jr
John B. Herreshoff
Harriet R de- Wolf
Bristol
Wilson
Providence
St Michael’s Church
George L. Locke
Celtic
White Star Line
Roches Point
Cobb
Ireland
Organizing Safety Squads in Local Schools
This afternoon principals address pupils from Reynolds Erfield Valley and Oliver Schools on highway crossing safety. Eighteen students per school form safety squads of eight boys and two girls to report to Supt W J Harper Monday at 10 for final duty instructions near school streets.
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Reynolds Erfield Valley
Oliver
W. J. Harper
Brain Cortex Described as Thought Center
The cortex is the brain’s thinking part, a thin layer covering the upper brain surface. It is about one tenth to one quarter of an inch thick in humans and plays a key role in thought processes.
Seven Years More Wish From Little Anita
A young girl Anita, in early school life, learns numbers up to seven and, during her mother's milestone birthday, offers a playful birthday greeting. She wishes her mother minty happy returns and hopes she lives for seven years more.
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Anita
Slippery thief targets subway bulbs across NYC network
A mysterious thief, dubbed too smarmy to catch, has stolen electric light bulbs from subway stations across New York City. Passengers glimpsed from cars describe a method: wait for empty platforms, lift two or three bulbs, and pocket them. He may travel station to station, gathering worth of bulbs daily, raising concern he will escalate.
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New York City
Quite a Come-Down
A waste basket must embitter a circular letter that has crossed the country in a plane. Akron Beacon Journal notes a blunt, ironic line about failed correspondence traveling far in transit.
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Akron Beacon-Journal
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Mello’s Market
Te Efasy C
Canning Madel
Household Science Institute
Reynolds School
John B. Archer
Mrs. Spooner
Liberty Tailor
High Street
Tel
United States
Amos & GO
Burnside Memorial Building
Amos S. Gorham
Peter Bonvicin
Burton ST
American Radiator Products
Newman Bros
Bristol Poultry
Bristol Broilers
Newman
Swift
Swift’s
Florida
R. I. Pearman
R. I. Macintosh
Arizona
Rocky Ford
Keebler’s
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