Bristol Town Votes to Discharge Sewage Disposal Committee
At a three hour adjourned financial town meeting on March 17 the assembly voted to discharge the joint sewage disposal committee and form an 11 member taxpayers panel to study a disposal plant and cost. The forum discussed State Board hearings alleging Bristol harbor pollution and heard Scheme No 1 and Scheme No 2 designs from Fay Spofford Thorndike.
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Town Council and Sewer Commission
State Board of Purification
Bristol
State Board
Edward L. Leahy
Supreme Court
East Providence
Ralph W. Horne
Fay, Spofford and Thorndike
Garden Club Public Meeting Tomorrow Featured Talk by E K Thomas
The Bristol Garden Club invites all interested in gardens to an open meeting tomorrow April 30 at 3 30 PM in St Michael's Parish Hall Providence. E K Thomas Parks Superintendent will discuss The Value of An Attractive Community and answer questions about gardens. Soprano solos by Mrs Marjorie Burke and piano by Mrs B M MacDougall will also be featured.
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Bristol Garden Club
St. Michael's Parch Hall
K. Thomas
City of Providence
Thomas
Marjorie Burke
B M MacDougall
Resolute Launched as Trial Vessel After Cup Defense
Resolute was hoisted overboard from near the Herreshoff yard and towed to the north pier for mast stepping and rigging work. The owner E Walter Clark is part of the Vanderbilt Aldrich syndicate and the yacht will serve as a trial horse for Enterprise while not eligible for cup defense this year due to Lloyds rules.
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Thomas Lipton
Herreshoff
Herreshoft
North Pier
Lloyd's
Enterprise
Resolute
E. Walter Clark
Philadelphia
Vanderbilt-Aldrich
Weetamoe
Yankee
Whirlwind
It's Just as Hard If We Can't Change the World
A Forbes Magazine quote stressing that personal change remains vital when global efforts seem stalled. It highlights self-improvement as a path to progress despite broad challenges.
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Forbes Magazine
Rockwell House Opens as District Nursing HQ in Bristol
Bristol residents plus visitors attended the Rockwell House opening on Hope Street, the remodeled home of the late Charles B. Rockwell. Mrs June Rockwell Levy and family led the project for a district nursing association with Lions Club fundraising. The facility includes an operating room, sterilizers, labs, hospital beds, and living quarters for staff, with plans for a registered nurse and clinics in the new headquarters. Over $2,500 was raised in August by the Bristol Lions Club for medical and dental clinic equipment, plus donations of a hospital bed and a gas oxygen machine.
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Rockwell House
Bristol
Charles B. Rockwell
Hope Street
June Rockwell Levy
Bristol Lions Club
Tt Im
Association
District Nursing Association
Mayers
Ixterior
Bristol Laens Club
Wo Fred Williams
Mo Jo O'Byan
Town Corks office closes dog license period
The Town Cork office reports many dog owners visiting the clerk to license dogs for the coming year. Tomorrow is the final day to obtain licenses without an extra dollar per dog. Up to last night 304 dogs were licensed, compared with nearly 700 last year.
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Cork
Day Anniversary Program For Church Celebration Planned
Three day celebration marks the Dth anniversary of the First Congregational Church in this town led by Rev Herbert D Graetz. Events include a Friday banquet in Wolf Memorial Chapel, a Saturday Young People’s Rally with speakers from Rhode Island and Brown University, an 8 PM historical pageant, and a Sunday organ dedication by Hook Hastings Co. plus an organ recital.
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Herbert D Graetz
Wolf Memorial
Wolf Memorial Chapel
Meany Lather
Yale Disit
Young Peoples Division
Congregational Conference of Rhode Island
Congregational
Providence Aristian Endeavor Union
Gordon Gilkey
Y South Congregational Church
Shingfield
Mass
O ' Gilm Ee
Brwn University
Gilkey
Hook & Hastings Co
C F McKinley
Rhode Island Congregational Conference
Ralph Kinder
Church of the Holy Trinity
Philadelphia
Bristol
Nathaniel Bosworth
William W Perry
State Court House
John Walls
Nathaniel Byfield
Benjamin Church
John Carey
John Rogers
Benjamin Woodbridge
Samuel Lee
Hope
Bradford Streets
Bradford Street
Henry Wight
New Meeting House
Brown University
Show Boat Musical Revue Tonight at Colt Memorial High
A Boy Scouts benefit revue titled The Show Boat will run tonight and tomorrow at Colt Memorial High School Auditorium. The program features a Showboat opening, specialty by Leclerc and a six girl chorus, juvenile dancers Rally Poore and Doris Irons, a one act Miss Civilization with Alice Gardner, a Jewish comedy by Ferreira and Sartini, a Collegian minstrel segment, and gems from Gilbert and Sullivan. Proceeds support the Boy Scout Building on Hope Street.
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Colt Memorial High School
Boy Scouts
Bell Ann
Mr Leclerc
Ella Mae Lemaire
Louis Stabila
Oswald LeClaire
George R Fish
Erasmo Mancini
Dennis J. Ferreira
Charles J. Sartini
Bertram W Wall
Eddie LeClerc
Joseph
Kid Hope) Quartaro
Eastern University
Gilbert and Sulivan
Old Herreshoff Sprite Preserved Before Museum Move
The 20 foot Sprite catboat, once on Capt Nathaniel G Herreshoff’s lawn, was shipped to Dearborn Michigan for Henry Ford’s museum. Built in the 1850s era of fast Narragansett Bay yachts, Sprite helped launch the famed Herreshoff Company and will be preserved for future generations.
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Sprite
Dearborn
Mich
Henry Ford
New York
Michigan
Nathaniel G Herershoff
Wallex Street
Herreshoff
Capt Herreshoff
Narragansett Bay
John B Herreshoff
N. G. Hereshoff
Hereshoff Company
Hastings lectures on Wind River Indians at St Michael’s
Reverend Abbott Hastings warden of St Michael’s Mission in Wyoming lectured and showed motion pictures about the life and missionary work among Wind River Indians. He spoke at St Michael’s Church on Sunday morning and at Trinity Church in the evening to the Ladies’ Benevolent Society and St Michael’s Brotherhood yesterday afternoon and evening.
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Beto
A Abbott “Hastings
St. Michael’s Mission
Wind River Indian Reservation
Wyoming
Ladies’ Benevolent Society
St Michael's Brotherhood
St. Michael's Church
Rev Hastings
St Michael’s Church
Trinity Church
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Chester Morris
FOX News
George Bancroft
Mighty” Pathe Sound News
Eddie Dowling
Tarzan the Tiger
Pathe News
Movietone News
William Collier, Jr
Melc Pathe
June Levy
Lions Club
Colt High School
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American Telephone and Telegraph
F. Reginald Dimond
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