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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 05, 1938
Page
5
Two hundred forty Bryant College graduates from across the country, including Bristol sisters in-law of Angelo Marino, receive degrees Friday morning in Bryant College of Business Administration. The Bristol pair completed the School of Secretarial Science and were honor students active in campus social life at Bryant's seventy-fifth commencement.
Maisano Oil clinched its second straight win in the second half by beating Cup Defenders Association Juniors 4 2. Bristol Yanks also defeated the same rivals 4 2 as pitching and hitting highlighted the day with several players driving in runs and claiming hits. Wards Island note follows, describing its location in New York City and historical background.
A Bristol resident in Newark письм notes Mayor LaGuardia bought New York City Whitehall district post office for about $1. He recalls Bristol’s old post office, 30 years old and costing about $750,000, and urges Bristol to consider keeping its own facility.
Marathon thawc and nanala from all over the State have visited the Knights of Columbus Daughters of Isabella carnival at the Knights of Columbus grounds State street. Saturday afternoon admission to the grounds is free for everybody. Most concessions will be open especially rides and swings expected to attract children. Vaudeville attractions tonight and tomorrow include Mary Lee singing acrobat King and Foster dancing Ann Davis comedienne Evelyn Scott acrobatic tap and toe dancer Lou Pierce juggler Alexander sisters singing team and a surprise act. William Dexter will replace Professor Charles J Chingham as Master of Ceremonies Saturday night.
At Chicago Municipal Airport private Frank Krebs leaped onto a pilot-less wing. Lt Lewis Connors and civilian James Hutton prepared for flight to St Louis when Krebs rode along the fuselage, finally dropping to safety after the plane returned to earth.
Mrs Maria Russo Mascena longtime Bristol resident died Tuesday morning at St Josephs Hospital Providence after a brief illness She was 41 of 33 Prospect St born Falcone Province of Messina Italy daughter of Angelo and Fortunate Russo She leaves husband Salvatore two sons Angelo Samuel two daughters Maria and Rhoebe two brothers Frank and Joseph Also Nunziata Mascinteo The funeral from her home 8 30 am followed by a requiem mass at Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church Rev Joseph Sorzano presiding Bearers were six nephews Angelo Russo Frank Voro John Pasquale Anthony Arico all of Bristol.
Funeral services for Mrs Harriet M Ingerson aged 84 who died after a brief illness were conducted at 2 PM from the Home for Aged Women 55 Franklin Street Rev Allen E Claxton of Trinity Union MoE Church Providence officiated Burial was in North Cemetery Mrs Ingerson in born in town October 27 1853 to Charles and Julia Chadwick.
National sympathies favor democracy over fascist and communist rule. The piece argues dictators misrepresent life under totalitarian regimes while democracies offer higher wages, freedom to worship, speech, and better security, asserting democracy is the world’s hope.
Dr Frank J Black born November 28 1894 in Philadelphia is a chemist by training turned music professional. He became NBCs musical director in 1932 and organized orchestras in Harrisburg New York and Philadelphia. He champions diverse music enjoys dairy farming in Doylestown and flying as hobbies.
The article explains the meaning of trade last as a compliment etiquette and describes the Memorial Cairn near Braemar in Scotland. It notes the Cairn of Remembrance where Clan Farquharson members added stones in war and later removed stones as a memorial to fallen comrades.
Rouen, a key transit hub from Channel ports to Paris, earns the nickname City of a Hundred Steeples for its historic skyline. It is famed as a great museum town and has been lauded as the Florence of the North for its rich art treasures.
The first sizeable appearance of hypnotists in England occurred in the seventeenth century when traveling quacks and mummers induced hallucinations and convulsions in subjects and claimed to cure scrofula.
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