Bristol summer Sundays offer free concerts for Bristolians
Bristol Board of Recreation will host Sunday afternoon programs through the season starting August 16 with the Portuguese Independent Band. The lineup includes the Boy Scout Bugle and Drum Corps, local talent on August 30, and a community sing. August 30 features varied acts and a group sing with familiar songs. September 6 aims to bring a top state band, aided by Dr George H Baldwin and Louis Evans amplifying system.
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Bristol Common
Hill
Bugle Corps
Hills
Bristol
George H. Baldwin
State Department of Education
Louis Evans
Germany Must Suffer Military Defeat, Speaker Says
Professor Edwin M. J. Kretzmann told Bristol Historical Society that a lasting peace requires Germany to be thoroughly convinced its army can be beaten. He outlined causes of the war, including Wilson's 14 points, the League of Nations, and postwar disarmament, and argued nationalism harms global peace.
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Edwin M. J. Kretzmann
Brown University
War Information Office
Brown
Bristol Historical Society
Charles B. Rockwell
Alice B Almy
Rockwell
Harry Dew
Allen
Arthur H. Carr
Kretzmann
Germany
Wilson
Hitler
Versailles
United States
League of Nations
Peo
Y M C A Workers Launch Drive to Raise 3500 Quota
The Bristol Community Y M C A kicks off a week long campaign to raise 3500 through prospect interviews and subscriptions. Meetings for workers are set for Wednesday Friday and Monday at 7 30 p m. James G Carns Jr leads as campaign chairman guiding 700 letter outreach and a summer program including softball leagues camps and civic activities.
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Bristol
James G. Carns, Jr
Industrial Girls
Massasoit
Businessmen’s
Guiteras Field
U. S. Rubber Company
Bristol Manufacturing Corp
Collins & Aikman Corp
Hubert F. Hill
Martin Hall
Ym.ca
Irwin Tobin
World Affairs Council of R. I
Viking Club
Bristol Surpasses Record Drive for Soldiers
Bristol leadership reports the town likely exceeded the 4350 record goal for soldiers with 2100 from Pozzi's Pharmacy 1000 from the American Legion 800 from Bristol Mfg Corp and contributions from 30 collection centers across the town under George R Fish of Kearney Post No 6.
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Records For
Bristol
George R. Fish
Kearney Post
American Legion
Fisih
Pozzi
Legion
Bristol Mfg. Corp
Death of Gertrude L. Bingham in Providence
Gertrude L. Bingham widow of the late Robert Bingham died in Providence on August 2. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 PM from the C. M. Connery Funeral Home. Relatives and friends may attend. Calling hours are 2-4 and 7-10.
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Bingham
Providence
Gertrude L
Robert Bingham
C. M. Connery Funeral Home
Red Cross Motor Corps Marks First Birthday in Bristol
The Bristol Rhode Island Red Cross Motor Corps observed its first anniversary on July 31. From 18 founding volunteers the unit grew to 13, earning a new ambulance and three station wagons for emergency duty. Members train in first aid, motor mechanics, convoy and map reading, blackout driving and more, serving 24 hours daily for disaster relief and hospital transport across the state.
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Red Cross Motor Corps
Bristol
R. L
Yacht Club
Moulton
Providence Motor Corps
Motor Corps
Red Cross
Sidney Herreshoff
Albert H. Flint, Jr
Frederick A. Sutcliffe
Roswell S. Bosworth
Paul C. Nicholson
Matthew Brito
Bristol Mfg. Corp
Capt. Herreshoff
Bristol Nursing Association
Bristol Corps
Coventry
Red Cross Disaster Relief Organization
Office of Civilian Defense
R. I. Hospital
Rhode Island Hospital
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Potter Hospital
Chester Chapin Memorial Hospital
Truesdale Hospital
Wallum Lake Sanatorium
Newport Naval Hospital
State Office
Herreshoff
Flint
Sutcliffe
Rex
Helen Condon
Marion Darling
Pauline Paull
Eleanor Dunstan
Regina Farley
Helen Randall
Laura Sousa
Edith
German Refugee to Speak at Bristol Rotary Meeting
Leonard Guenther a German Christian refugee will discuss Inside Germany Under Hitler at the Bristol Rotary Club meeting at the Colonial Hotel tomorrow. It will be his 50th Rotary talk in 40 weeks. He came to the U S in 1938 applied for citizenship first day landed and will become an American citizen early in 1943. He holds Ph D and Jur D and was corporation counsel for a Swiss firm 50 percent Jewish. He wrote A German Ace Tells Why with foreword by Dr. Eliott and introduction by Dr. Marsh and spoke to more than 150 audiences last winter.
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Germany
Leonard Guenther
Bristol
Guenther
Frederick May Eliot
American Unitarian Association
Daniel L. Marsh
Boston University
Religious Festival at St Elizabeths Church Bristol
Wartime restrictions did not dull the Feast of the Blessed Sacrament at St Elizabeths Church Bristol. The procession along Wood Street Franklin and Bay View Avenue returned to the church with Rev Henrique Rocha and Rev Silvino Raposo at the fore and a canopy carried by local leaders.
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Bristol
Madeira Islands
Portugal
St. Elizabeth’s Church
Wood Street
Franklin
Bay View Avenue
Joseph Almeida
Henrique Rocha
Silvino Raposo
Holy Rosary Church of East Providence
John Camara Gabriel Castro
Joseph Quintal
Julio Ferreira
Manuel P. Vasconcellos
Manuel Quintal
John P. Marshall
Paul Millemaggi
Henry F. Serbst
Joseph J. Marshall
John Andrade
John Cordeiro
Henry Alfred
Pasquale Pagnano
Daniel W. Coggeshall
Anthony J. Nunes
Bristol County
Manuel Fernandes
Madeirense Society
John Vasconcellos
Anthony Vasconcellos
Vasco Castro
Domenic Camara
Manuel and
Joseph Castro
The 1947 Dream Car Vision by Raymond Loewy
Magazine Digest sketches a future automobile with aluminum dominance and rear mounted engines. The 1947 model features a wraparound windshield, sliding doors, plastic trim, hydromatic control, and individual lounge chairs for passengers, promising unprecedented space and comfort.
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Mitchell Grayson
Magazine Digest
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Historical Society
France
Ruby Valley
Stresseman
Professor Kretzmann
U. S. Senate
Gary Cooper
Great Stokowski
Walt Disney’s
Judy Canova
Allan Jones
Ann Miller
Jerry Colonna
Dotty
Jungle Land
Dorothy Lamour
Richard Denning
Jack Haley
Walter Abel
Patricia Morison
Cartoon
Comefnegor
News Reel Cartoon Comedy
Wallis E. Howe
Henry Wood
F. Reginald Dimond
Wesley A. Armstrong
Samuel D. Clark
H. A. Butt
Anthony Agatiello
Archie Allen
Wm. H. Angevine
R. S. Bosworth
John L. Burke
Herbert S. Burnham
Charles B Burns
Dominic Capone
J. G Carns
Carl Carlson
Carmine Cirillo
John W. Church
Verginio de Rocha
Manuel Ferriera
George G Felix
Col
Samuel A Hall
Stephen W Hopkins
Edward Levy
Henry Levy
Elmer S. Mapes
Raymond Makowsky
John Marshall
Joseph Marshall
Manuel Morris
Benjamin Hazen
Salvador Nunes
Charles M. Otten
George S. Pailthorpe
Joseph Perroni
Joseph P Quartaro
Hours Service
Rotary
Shisa
Raymond Loewry
Grayson
Loewry
Pennsylvania Railroad
Ford
Cadillac
America
Coney Island
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