Fragmented Quote Meditation on Virtue and Prosperity
A garbled musing echoes Carlyle and David Mallet about humility steadiness and fortitude. The text hints at virtue as a path to prosperity with strong roots in character and calm resolve.
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 14, 1950
Page
4
A garbled musing echoes Carlyle and David Mallet about humility steadiness and fortitude. The text hints at virtue as a path to prosperity with strong roots in character and calm resolve.
Bristol residents, members of the American Guild of Variety Artists, perform in a two hour charity show at Fays Theatre on Thursday April 20. The Providence AGVA branch presents the benefit to fund its insurance and welfare. Edward M. Fay donates the theatre and local unions contribute staff. Cliff Barnes leads the arrangements. tickets sold at the door.
A compact extract lists events from Bristol papers: snow in 1850 with a four to five inch depth and nightly ice forming, plus weekly port arrivals of thirty ships. 1900 items include a minstrel show at the Bristol Opera House, dental ads, and school site decisions for a new $25,000 junior high near the old East Burial Ground. Also noted are St Michael’s Church officers, Clarence DeMar Boston Marathon speaker, Regina Farley in Fleurette, and Washington street property purchases for Wardwell Memorial Junior High.
Harold W. Kopp the new Ram's coach will address Newport County alumni from Rhode Island State College at the Italo American Civic Association rooms on Equality Park. He has already spoken to alumni groups in Providence Westerly and Boston as part of a Rhode Island swing.
Arthur W. Devine announced the proposed Restaurant and Hotel Restaurant Minimum Wage Order after a March 22 hearing. Effective June 1 1950 the order sets 40c per hour for full time service staff and 60c for non service workers with higher part time and overtime rates and deductions for lodging in certain cases.
Those drawn for grand jury duty in the state courts for the 1950 51 term include Ethel F Courcy Southworth avenue Leonard A Waitt 25 Noyes avenue and Robert Six grand jury members were selected by the town council at a special session on Wednesday afternoon Included among those drawn was Councilman Norman E Benard who participated in the draw
The First Bristol Troop of Boy Scouts of America saw Boy Cats defeat Flamingo Arrows 57 to 56. Joseph Vaccaro led the Cats and Fred Cornell led the Arrows. Plans include a Providence pool swim, Bristol County District Rally in Warren Town Hall on April 28, merit badge awards, next week's meeting registrations and camp reservations, with new uniforms planned for Patriots Day.
Edward Mello, seaman apprentice in the US Navy, 29 Richmond Street, is scheduled to arrive in Athens Greece on April 26 aboard the destroyer USS G K Mackenzie for a four day visit to the capital of the Hellenes.
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