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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1924
Page
3
A heartfelt tribute recalls Chas H Bickford as a tireless friend who helped others without seeking praise. Loved by family and all who knew him Old and young recalled his kind word and cheerful smile as he bore others burdens.
Miss Annie McCallum suffered a severe head laceration and loss of consciousness after being frightened from her horse near the Soldiers Home. She received treatment at the Soldiers Home hospital and was later taken to her parents’ residence. Miss Aileen Holm, daughter of Y M C A secretary Colm Holm, fell from a horse last week. she escaped with minor bruises and a leg injury.
Henry Wingate Hayes a prominent Rhode Island attorney died in Beaumont Texas last Thursday night at his son Francis W Hayes home. Born in Providence July 5 1855 he studied at Brown University earning an AB in 1876 and entered law with his father. He served in numerous legal roles including counsel for Old Colony railroad and Rhode Island Company and helped revise state laws. He is survived by his second wife two sons a sister and a brother with funeral in Providence at the First Congregational Unitarian Church.
Relatives from this town attended the wedding of Dr. Daniel L Morrissey of Providence son of the late Chief of Police and Mrs John H Morrissey of Bristol and Miss Rosalind M Began of Providence The couple will sail Thursday from New York on the SS Duke for Italy and Paris Dr John H Morrissey spent the weekend in town and left for New York with his sister to join the trio abroad
At the Bristol Girl Scouts meeting held Friday in Reynolds School auditorium Captain Hoar oversaw Catherine Hemple becoming a tenderfoot. Literature on the summer camp was distributed and the group voted to raise more funds for the camp.
A handsome couple visits a Salzberg jeweler with two polaitres valued at 85 million crowns. The man, posing as Engineer Koerner, hurries off with checks and a ring. Police soon identify him as Frederick Schiller, a 23 year old barber with a record. he is found with another ring and 6 million crowns pawned.
The Avon gorge suspension span was taken to pieces for Bristol but the Harwich train ferry bridge moved from Southampton in one piece. Two barges were lashed to form a deck, floated under the span, and towed to Harwich where it was erected.
A 1900s style report describes squid light poured into a bulb as a perpetual, radioactive illumination promising seven years of use per refill. It claims superior brightness to electric light and envisions coal and oil becoming obsolete, ending smoke with smokeless power.
The Lingotto automobile plant in Italy features a testing track atop its roof more than 100 feet high. The eight thousand eight hundred ten foot loop around four courts has curves banked twenty feet high and a width of seventy five feet. Gasoline and oil supplies are kept at hand and pumped from underground tanks for experiments and finished car testing.
An elderly farmer slips a two shilling piece into the kirk plate instead of a penny and confronts the elder after service. The elder quips that the man will only receive credit for a peony, arguing that was all he intended to put.
A judge comments on a violent incident in which one man allegedly drew a knife to carve another, claiming the victim blocked his eye and justified the attack as fair retaliation. The exchange underscores the aggressor’s supposed motive and the court’s interpretation of fairness.
A mock dialogue from the Boston Transcript suggests a comic path to fame via strong reviews. The exchange frames critics as the gateway to stardom and public acclaim.
The funeral for Isaac Lawton Fish aged about 81 was held at his West Main Road home in Portsmouth Rhode Island. He died Friday and burial took place in Portsmouth. He was born in this town to Joseph and Elizabeth Fish and moved from Bristol at age about 15. Survived by three children Isaac Ernest Fish and Mrs. William Mott, a sister Mary Thomas of Fall River, and nephews George E. Benard and Albert E. Benard. sons of Mt Hope estate once owned by the Haffenreffer family. Following services in Stamford Connecticut, the body of Thomas Coughlin, a former resident, was moved.
A man born in Hudson Massachusetts lived in Stamford Connecticut for the last decade. He spent 15 to 20 years employed by a rubber company in India and was described as a churchgoer. He is survived by his wife and four children.
Catalfamo Millemaggi vows at Our Lady of Mt Carmel on April 28 with Vincenzo Catalfamo and Fortuna Millemaggi wed. Ramos Moniz nuptials on April 2 at St Elizabeth’s Church with August Ramos and Angelina Moniz. Silva Evans marriage on April 26 at St. Charles Church for Joseph Perry Silva and Mildred Daisy Evans.
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