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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 01, 1941
Page
4
About 200 Carr Manufacturing workers paid tribute to Assistant General Manager J Haddon Davidson at a Sunday testimonial dinner at the Colonial Hotel. Speakers included James G Connolly and Bertram Wall. Mr Davidson pledged support from President Arthur Carr and the board as the firm plans expansions and an employee welfare athletic club.
Tony Almeida and Tony Andrade from Bristol headline the Casino A. C. show in Fall River with a 10 round main event featuring Tiger Ted Lowry vs Pat Mangini. Almeida meets Charlie Cohen of Boston in a six round semi final while Andrade draws a 4 round bout. Also on the card Italian Jack Dempsey faces Sam Shumway and Jack Duboise meets Eddie, in sixes.
The fragment hints at a Thursday schedule or column urging action from start to finish. Readability is limited but implies an exhortation for decisive steps or events occurring within the day. Entities are unclear due to garbled OCR.
Judge Morton Sullivan of Superior Court urged Catholics to work for peace and a brighter Christian future at a Bristol Knights of Columbus Union breakfast held after the 8 oclock mass at St Marys Church. Lucien Capone served as toastmaster with speakers Rev Owen McGrath Rev Vincent Griffin Grand Knight John Burke and Fr Ryan among them. Hope Circle Daughters of Isabella members attended and breakfast was arranged by Leonard Donovan James Flynn and others.
Three singers were selected as winners of the Metropolitan Opera Auditions of the Air and joined the Met company. Mona Paulee Mary E. Van Kirk and Lansing Hatfield received $1,000 checks and silver plaques after a hotly contested judges’ panel picked them from about seven hundred aspirants across the United States and Canada. The winners were toasted at a Savoy Plaza Hotel reception as they officially entered the Metropolitan Opera Company.
The Jefferson Day Dinner honoring Thomas Jefferson will be held at the Narragansett Hotel in Providence on Sunday evening, April 20. Democratic State Chairman Dennis J. Roberts announced a slate of committee chairs and regional members including Mortimer W. Newton and Edward J. Higgins.
The Fellowcraft Degree will be exemplified for a class of candidates in the Seventh Masonic District on April 9 at Masonic Hall. St. Alban's Lodge officers to participate include Worshipful Master Harry W. Munro and others from St. Alban's Newport Portsmouth Warren and Madison. Hope Chapter A M and Mount Hope Chapter Order of Eastern Star will hold convocations on April 2 and 7 respectively.
A collection of aphorisms on action and virtue quoting David Thomas Horace Mann Colton Mary Baker Eddy James Sharpe and Bovee. The quotes compare deeds to book indexes urge deliberate but decisive conduct and honesty as the path to principled performance.
A long letter from Bristol England discusses Bristol Rhode Island's wartime relief, funds raised by the Bristol Council of Social Service, and a plan to honor donors with a plaque. It notes shrapnel souvenirs, evacuation of 8000 children, raids, and ongoing efforts by the Lord Mayor's War Appeal Committee to aid families and small businesses affected by enemy action.
Funeral services were conducted for Mrs. Mary R. Witherell 80 who died Friday in Fall River at the Wilbur Funeral Home Warren with Rev Anthony R Parshley officiating. Burial followed in Warwick Massachusetts. She was the widow of Edward E Witherell and had lived with her granddaughter Mrs James B Lee in Warwick Street. She was born in Warwick Massachusetts daughter of Ebenzer and Elsie Goodwin. Survivors include two grandchildren Edward and Carl Witherell both of this town.
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