East High School - Redjacket Yearbook (Pawtucket, RI)

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Pawtucket High School Class Book—1918. 17 Emma Dunbar, that quiet, modest girl of our 11 igh School days, is now an astronomer. On clear nights you may find her looking heavenward to detect the slightest movement of the stars. “Mary Etta Emmett, Composer’’ is what is seen on our most up to date music. Her first compositions were so difficult that few people could play them and so she is now writing less difficult selections to use in graded lesson books. Mildred Fames and Elsie Johnson had one of the largest hair dressing parlors in New York. They were doing very well when Mildred was married. Elsie was so disappointed because she had to run the establishment alone that she married a rich bachelor of New York. Rose Flynn and Anna Toher have turned out to be school teachers and are surely the best in the state. They were both graduated from Normal School, and Rose is teaching in Woonsocket, while Anna is employed at Newport. Elsie Habershaw leads a gay and happy life at Palm Beach. Soon after leaving school she invented an onion mask which has made her fortune. It is on the plan of a gas mask and is very beneficial to housewives who peel onions. So great has the demand for these masks been that Elsie had to get Helen Dwyer to help her run the business. Bertha Horovitz is the graceful tight-rope walker of Harrington’s Circus. Myra had this large circus left to her. She cheerfully took the burden and has improved it so much that it is now one of the largest circuses in the world. Emma Harris, that studious girl of our school days, has now, most unfortunately, forgotten many of the things which she learned at High School, so engrossed is she in her new occupation. She is a collector of uncommon and mysterious plants. Gertrude Smith and Evelyn Harrold own a prosperous tea room in Providence. As soon as the success of the business was assured they hired Grace Lyons to manage it for them. Now the two chums are enjoying life while Grace is worrying over the high cost of running a tea room. Merrick Holliday made a fortune on Wall Street. Rising from office boy, Merrick reached high in the brokerage line, his High School luck in matching nickels sticking by him in his big deals. Though he rides to the office in a Rolls-Royce he has not yet acquired the obesity common to his profession,for Bessie Beardwood keeps her “honey” thin by forced attendance at all of her dancing parties. “Dance and reduce is Merrick’s compulsory motto. James Ashworth decided that a fortune could be made in the manufacture of foods. Therefore, he built a bologna factory in Darlington. Ashworth has cut down on the cost of manufacture by using “New Skin” for the outside. This gives him a monopoly of the whole bologna trade. Charles Mangan became the leading lawyer of Limerock. His greatest case was the defence of Edwin Bannon. Bannon had amassed such a fortune that he was charged with violating the anti-trust law. Charles pleaded so pathetically that the jurors, with tears in their eyes, begged him to cease. Of course, Bannon was acquitted. This case gave Mangan such a reputation the he was appointed Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Amos Card is featured the country over as a daredevil balloonist. He certainly earns his one hundred a week when he drops three thousand feet in a parachute. But then it was well known, even at P. H. S„ that Amos would choose a reckless profession. Nathaniel Chase led an exploring party to the Antartic regions. The expedition was doomed to failure, however, for Chase’s appetite caused a shortage of provisions. Nathaniel went for two whole days with nothing but a piece of hardtack. When he returned to the United States, he swore never to be hungry again and opened a restaurant in New York.’ Eugene Conary has started a patent medicine business. According to his advertisements he can cure anything from ingrowing

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16 Pawtucket High School Class Rook—1918. “Pawtucket American . Ruth Gladys Taylor, his beloved helpmate, helps him out in the hard cases. Earnest Bott, the well known gymnast, is a persistent user of the column as he can’t find a girl to suit him. no matter where he roams. I lis proposed trip to Honolulu may finish him. however. Estelle Adams and Evelyn Beachen have been very successful indeed. Estelle invented a lightning hair dresser; a machine which combs and presents for approval hair of all kinds. Evelyn, who perfected the machine to include blondes, helps Estelle demonstrate and sell them. Gladys Adams and Bessie Coopy turned to cpiite different professions. Gladys, after studying in Europe, became the prima donna of America. While Bessie became a designer. Bessie is now employed by the senior classes of all the schools in Xew England to design their freak day costumes. Although the students are satisfied, the school authorities threaten to bring a law suit against Coopy Co. May Grimes and Gertrude Anderton together invented a passenger aeroplane that can carry twenty-five persons. These two members of our class were the first persons in the world to cross the Atlantic in an aeroplane. Since then they have perfected their invention and are now operating The New York and Paris Rapid Transit Co. Catherine Barry is a steady customer of the company in her frequent trips to the continent. Dorothea Price's School of Physical Torture is now famous. She began at the hot-tom of the ladder and worked her way up. Climbing was hard for Dorothea hut the ladder was strong and she is now at the top. So large has her business grown that she now employs several assistants, among whom are Mildred Bray and Catherine Brady. Mildred is especially needed as she studied first aid to the injured in High School and even in the most bloody cases never loses her head. Elsie Brown and Sarah Browning are Rhode Island Representatives to Congress. They each carry a copy of Burke’s “Speech on Conciliation” so that they may use it as a guide for their forms of arguments. They have found this very helpful as they win all debates with little effort. Hortense Caldwell now holds a government position as food inspector of canned goods. Hortense has found so many impure concoctions that about half the people of the country have become vegetarians. Catherine Corden and Mildred Collins are living in the Phillipine Islands. They went there to grow a new brand of carrots. These have become such an important food of the American people that Catherine and Mildred are famous now as the Carrot Queens. Margaret Dott and Bertha Cote are now in Alaska. They were sent there as special delegates by the government to boost the sale of palm beach suits. Their persuasive natures already have won the approval of the natives and the amount of their sales is remarkable. Elizabeth Cushman conceived the brilliant idea of erecting a home for students suffering from brain fever. The new hospital, which is located on Broadway, does a rushing business whenever the powers that be decide to have exams. Already eighteen “Gleaner editors have been patients at the hospital. Eunice Keough. Elizabeth’s assistant, soothes the troubled minds with her ukalelc. Angela Collins is a writer of up to date novels. Those who have read her stories get many astonishing ideas for their theme work. Her short stories on school life are very exciting. Margaret Doherty is one of the most sought after stenographers of the day. She received a position in a large manufacturing concern of this city but in a short time she left and is now a court stenographer. Josephine Driscoll—Here To-Night.”. Thi s is all that any of the moving picture theatres have to say for Jo is so popular that this sign immediately fills the house. Jo always had a liking for acting and when she entered the movies she was immediately pronounced a star.

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18 Pawtucket High School Class Hook—1918. toenails to baldness. It is safe for him to advertise “absolutely harmless for his medicine consists of distilltd water, colored red, and flavored to suit the taste. Sidney Simons is Conary's advertising agent. Walter Connly's knowledge of every cigarette makes him an expert tobacco drummer. Since “Yolly gets a discount on all his smokes, this profession considerably cuts down his living expenses. The name of the great biologist. Howard Loring Curtis, is often heard in our midst. Howard acquired his fame, when after fourteen years of experiments, he discovered that gold fish do not enjoy moving pictures. After a hard day’s work in his laboratory Howard returns home to Dorothy Cheek, who has long since been his wife. Constance Capron became one of the leading society women of Newport. She inherited a million dollars from a distant relative and thereby won the love of the Hon. Louis R. Devoe for life, or rather as long as the million lasted. Bob McElroy's adventurous nature yearned for excitement. He travelled around the world a few times and finally landed in Costa Rica. 1 lere a revolution was brewing and Bob took the side of the revolutionists. After they had overthrown the government the revolutionists elected Bob president. Soon after his election Bob bought the “Pontiac and made Charlie Driscoll admiral, with the “Pontiac for a flagship. He then looked around for a good general and finally chose “Pete Gardner to fill the office. The Costa Rican army now has twenty-three generals and five privates. Bill Duclos went to Texas and started a ranch. He intended to raise high class cattle but discovered extensive oil fields on his lands. His wells now produce so much oil that he has broken the Standard Oil Company’s monopoly. Sidney Jackson is now handling Duclos' business while Bill enjoys his fortune. Everett McAlevy rose in the newspaper business. His “Pawtucket American’’ drove the “Times” completely out of business . The motto of the paper is “We print everything but the truth.” Mac’s scientific gassing can get advertisements from the biggest tightwads. Carl Flick is the leading cartoonist for the “Pawtucket American . On every corner people can be found laughing at “Flick's Funnies . McAlevy hired Raymond Mara for sales agent. « Arthur Korcier and Henry Whipple have become known the country over as expert auditors and accountants. Henry thinks it nothing at all to add on a paltry ten thousand to make his books come out all right. Altho Oreal Grossman and John McGreevy have not made fortunes for themselves, they have at least made themselves famous. The two went to Russia and founded a bank. (John had some difficulty in mastering the intricacies of the language but it came natural to Oreal. I Just as the bank began to make money, the Bolsheviks raided it and “swiped the deposits. John and Oreal have returned to this country in bankruptcy. Albert Holburn and Byron Stapleton are well known scientists. Working together they have produced wonderful chemistry text books. Albert remembered his own dislike for chemistry formulas at P. H. S. and refused to have any rules, formulas, or laws in any of his books. Needless to say the books are in great demand especially by students. The two scientists are now on research work trying to discover foods that will not burn for use in the 11 igh School domestic science department. The two tellers of this sorrowful tale state that they did not make all their classmates millionaires on account of a shortage of space. One of the two colleagues suffered a mental relapse and retired to Miss Cushman’s Sanitarium. The other showed the utter hopelessness of his case hy experimenting on a perpetual motion machine. I laving solved the eternal question he equipped an aeroplane with his new motor and started on a trial flight. The machine was a remarkable success. In fact, the motor was so perpetual that the inventor could not stop it. When last seen he was travelling at a tremendous speed towards a distant planet carrying with him the solution to the mystery of perpetual motion. Agnes Rebecca Doherty. 1 forace Boss Pray.