Mass Meeting Aims to Boost Cancer Control in Bristol
Bristol residents will gather Tuesday night at Colt Memorial High School for a mass meeting on cancer control. Speakers include Dr George W Waterman of Providence and Dr Morris Barron of Tufts with remarks on diagnosis, prevention, and the need for funded research.
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Cancer Control
George W. Waterman
Morris Barron
Colt Memorial Hall
Bristol
Colt Memorial High School
Women's Field Army
Norton M. Zinderstein
Providence
R. I. Medical Society
Tufts College
Beth Israel Hospital
Boston
Alfred M Merriman
United States
Charles B Rockwell
Hermann C. Pitts
U. S
American Society For the Control of Cancer
Pitts
Barron
Rotary Club
Hore
Belveder
George M. Waterman
Cancer Committee
The
RI Medical Society
Boys and Girls Sing at Sunday Church Service
The Boys Cub will lead the old fashioned song service at 7 30 p m in State Street ME Church Reverend Marvin W Topping will preach at 10 45 a m and Sunday School starts at 9 30 a m Fred Alger addresses Epworth League at 6 15 p m The Senior Boys Club plans a trip to Fall River tomorrow at 10 00 a m to tour the Fall River Herald News presses Lunches provided Junior Boys meet Saturday at 7 p m with Senior Boys in the gym tonight at the same hour
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State Street ME
Marvin W Topping
Fred Alger
Epworth League
Fall River
Portuguese Cantoria Tickets Sold For Santo Christo Event
Cantoria presented Sundays at Columbia Hall Wood Street under Santo Christo Club. Nearly WO tickets sold for the Cantona style program featuring lead Portuguese singers from Providence Fall River and New Bedford. Daniel M Vargas chairs arrangements with Frank Sousa Ernest Prenda Manuel Pacheco and Manuel Ferreira.
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Cantona
Columbia Hall
Wood Street
Santo Christo Club
Providence
Fall River
New Bedford
Daniel M Vargas
Frank Sousa
Ernest Prenda
Manuel Pacheco
Manuel Ferreira
Alumni Launches Membership Drive
The Bristol Colt Alumni Association opened a membership campaign at a meeting in the Calf High School auditorium with over 200 senders to recruit new members. The executive committee leads, plans include the annual bridge later next month, and a film by J F McGowan of Coca Cola titled The Wheel of Chance was shown.
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Bristol Colt Alumni Association
Cals High School
J F McGowan
Coca Cola Company
Genesieve Pagnano
Countryside Club Flower Show Winner in 1938 Rhode Island Event
The Countryside Garden Club of Bristol won a prize at the 1938 Rhode Island Flower Show held at the Rhode Island Auditorium. The Triangular Flower Garden exhibited in blue violet pale yellow and pale pink shades earned second prize with ribbons. Arranged by committee chair Mrs Sebastian Bernard Jr and members Mrs Wm L Serbst, Mrs Louis Beauregard ex officio, Mrs M Connery, and Miss Nora F P Dwyer.
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the Countryside Garden Club of
Bristol
Rhode Island
Rhode Island Federation of Garden Clubs
Rhode Island Auditorium
Calvbitien
Sebbastian Bernard, Jr
Wm L Serbst
Louis Beauregard
M- Connery
Nora FP Dwyer
Colt High Opens Baseball Campaign at East Greenwich
Colt Memorial high school begins its interscholastic baseball season this afternoon against East Greenwich Academy in East Greenwich. The Bristol nine will play Warren high on Tuesday at Warren, with a 12 game schedule including Burrillville Cumberland Trade and Barrington through May.
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Colt Memorial High School
East Greenwich Academy
Bristol
Warren High
Warren
Colt
Burrillville
Cumberland
Trade
Barrington
East Greenwich
Sportsmen Plan Annual Banquet
Judge Edward I Leahy selected as toastmaster for the True Sportsmen Association annual banquet to be held Monday evening at Italo American Hall Hope Street. Invited guests include Joseph Kirby Fish and Game Division chief Senator Thomas H Byrnes Representatives Pasquale Pagnano John R Magee members of the Town Court ail James Fitzmaurice Rhode Island Federated Sportsmen's Club president John Curran Wild Life Federation Providence sports writer Bereta Y Ginte and others Police Chief Anthony J Ferrara will be principal speaker Arrangements committee members Salvatore Rinaldi Raymond J Cavallaro Manuel Correia.
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Edward I. Leahy
True Sportsmen's Association
Hope Street
Joseph Kirby
Fish and Game
Thomas H Brynes
Pasquale Pagnano
John R Magee
James Fitzmaurice
Rhode Island Federated Sportsmen's Club
John Curran
Wild Life Federation of Rhode Yelp
Barly J Nfquiocer Providency
Anthony J Ferrara
Bereta Y. Ginte
Eay
Salvatore Rinaldi
Raymond J Cavallaro
Manuel Correia
Cancer Control Enrollment Appeals and Donations Noted
Enrollment checks to Mrs Norton Minderstein Unit Captain at 48 Walley Street form part of a list honoring cancer control efforts. The Women's Field Army thanks contributors including a $5000 memorial gift from Mr Charles B Rockwell for Martha B S Rockwell and a long roster of individuals giving from 1938 era, with many names and titles across organizations and families.
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Norton Minderstein
Walley Street
Women's Field Army
Difficulties Cleared Up Between Council Budget and Relief Boards
Town Council President Prescott B Paull stated the budget committee was right after a public meeting with the finance board Work Relief Bureau and relief administrator to address a charge the relief bureau was unbusinesslike The session highlighted a $32000 clerical error in the relief administrator's annual report corrected within 24 hours and underscored calls for a competent auditor to oversee relief bureau accounts
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Prescott B Paull
Finance Board
Work Relief Bureau
Budget Board
Relief ‘Bureau
Paull
Finance Committee
Relef
Domenic Mascola
Mascola
Council
Frant
L. Doran
Mt. Tans
William H Angevine
Bristol
Angevine
Relief Bureau
Ernest G Brown
Hope Circle To Hold Social
A Hope Circle D of I business meeting is set for Monday evening at 7 30 in E of C Hall. A social will follow hosted by committee chair Nora E Dwyer with Eva Burke Madeline Almeida Ethel Connery Irene Lewis Bridget Nastii Mary Guevremont Anne Connors H Francis Horton and others listed as former officers and members.
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Hope Circle
D of I
E of C
Nora E. Dwyer
Eva Burke
Madeline Almeida
Ethel Connery
Irene Lewis
Bridget Nastii
Mary Guevremont
Anne Connors
H Francis Horton
Margaret Connery
Elose Dunbar
School Board Grants Parking Space Request
The New England Concrete Company and crews building Andrews Memorial High School win permission to use rear grounds of Colt Memorial High School for diagonal parking. No Bradford Street parking 7 am to 5 pm. after 5 pm parking allowed on south Bradford Street and on Central Street.
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New England Concrete Company
General Contractors
New Andrews Memorial High School
Colt Memorial High School
Bradford Street
Anthony J Ferrara
Bradford
Central Street
Twilight League Opens May 9 at Guileras Field
Bristol Twilight League begins its twelfth season with opening game set for Monday May 9 at the new Guileras Athletic Field. Four sponsor clubs Olympian Club Bristol Train of Artillery Ever Ready Fire Company and Defiance Fire Company again back teams as officials redraw rosters and approve five new players per squad.
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Bristol Twilight League
Guileras Athletic Field
League
YMCA
Olympian Club
Bristol Train of Artillery
Ever Ready Fire Company
Defiance Fire Company
James B Lee
Frank L. Doran
Samuel J Smith
James F Duffy
Samuel A Hall
Alan M Poole
Charles R Beals
Joseph R. Perrom
George Boutilier
Roswell S Bosworth
Dr Bernardo Returns From New York Hospital
Dr John R Bernardo returns home to High Street after two weeks of treatment at Presbyterian Clinic New York City to regain eyesight. He was informed by Dr Ramon Castroviejo that a cornea graft may be needed but several more weeks of treatment are required before any operation. Bernardo has been blind for three years.
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John R Bernardo
High Street
Presbyterian
Schoolboy's Prayer Refuses Nazi Persecution in 1935 Germany
A Path finder article recounts 13 year old Martin Marden, a Jewish boy living in Germany, who fled with his sister in 1935 to join their mother in the United States, escaping Nazi persecution.
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Martin Marden
Germany
United States
Martin
America
Young Writer Martin Marden Gains City Attention
After three years at Macombs Dam Junior High School in New York City Martin Marden earned acclaim for a school composition chosen for the New York City School System annual report. Copies were sent to President Roosevelt and Secretary Hull as Washington shaped a plan for politically persecuted refugees.
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Martin Marden
Macombs Dam
New York City
Washington
Martin
Roosevelt
Hull
I Am Thankful For Freedom And Education In America
A reflective note on gratitude for safety, education, and democratic rights in the United States. The speaker contrasts opportunities and freedoms with conditions in other lands, emphasizing national anthem rights and a hopeful future for all races.
Red Hatred and Postal Telegraph Boy in New York
A nationwide spotlight fell on a prayer while Martin Marden, a Postal Telegraph boy, worked in New York to support his widowed mother. He balanced day school with night study duties amid rising tensions.
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Martin Marden
New York
Phoenix maid ad Interview ends in humorous soup plan
A Phoenix woman sought a general maid with cooking know how. When asked how she would make soup the applicant answered with a can opener as the first step ending the interview and the job.
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Phoenix
Paper lawn sheets seed London device sprouts grass
A Royal Horticultural Society member in London developed seed sheets made of decomposable paper for sowing grass. Sheets 3 by 2 feet show seeds in rows three eighths of an inch apart. After soil leveling, sheets are spread and kept moist. warm weather yields rooting in seven to ten days.
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London
Royal Horticultural Society
inventor touts lawn method for birdproof seeds and pattern cuts
The inventor asserts the method keeps seeds safe from birds, spaces seedlings for full root and top growth, ensures maximum germination, and allows curved edges to be cut with scissors into any pattern. He notes higher cost but claims reliable results justify it.
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Metrotone News
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Cancer
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S Rockwell
Emanuel Jacolett
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Bridget Nastri
Harry Munro
Frederic Cornell
Frank Gladue
Harold Newman
Edward Menard
Mass Mary Paul
Evelyn Carter
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Wills Goodspeed
William McCaughey
Joseph Hall
Wall m Wood
John Wall
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Frank A Rounds
Guy Morrow
Charles Otten
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Edward J) Kunz
Howard W Church
Anthony S Thomas
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Edmonds
Rodrigo P C Rego
J Floyd Huestis
Frederick Martin
Og R
Perrom
H H Lawson
Stephen W Hopkins
Frank M Dimond
F Reginald Dimond
William Pinch
Manuel Perry
Joseph L. King
Helen A Condon
John Condon
William LL. Serbst
Willhiam Burke
Sebastian Bernard. Jr
M P Medeiros
Joseph Connell
Wilfred Hamill
Marie Vermette
H W Vermette
George H Baldwin
F F Marvon
Earl Sturdevant
Frederick Bartlett
C T Heilborn
F F T Dunbar
Bertha Hagen
E. McLaughlin
RE. Lanphear
Stephen Mason
J Deslauriers
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F Mahoney
M F. Paulin
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New York Hospital
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