Bristol Women's Club Announces Year of Guest Speakers
The Bristol Women's Club released its annual program with planned meetings at Guiteras House and St. Michael's Parish House. Notable speakers include Elsie Oakes Barber on September 12 and Stewart Anderson with a 15000 Miles in a Covered Wagon illustrated talk.
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Bristol
Elsie Oakes Barber
Guiteras House
St. Michael’s
Stewart Anderson
National Geographic Magazine
William P. Suzan
Cora M. Hill
Colt High
Esor
Marth
Roswell S. Bosworth
Zoning Board Grants One and Schedules Another in Burnside
The Zoning Board of Review met for about 30 minutes in Burnside Memorial Building hearings last evening. Frank Marques of 70 East State Street won approval for a nonconforming use in a residential district and a basement relocation of his store with the structure raised four feet. Vincent Stifano of 35 West River Street Providence received a public hearing order to establish a retail bakery on Opeechee Drive. The board deferred Charles Andrade’s petition for a special exception as withdrawn and Fabio De Christofaro’s request on Brookside plat was found noncompliant. Chairman Elmer Angell presided with members DaPonte, Pozzi, and Goff. town legal adviser Eugene F. Cochran attended.
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Council
Burnside Memorial Building
Zoning Board of Review
Frank Marques
East State Street
Marques
Vincent Stifano
West River Street
Providence
Opeechee Drive
Stifano
Frederick T. Goff
Charles Andrade
Fabio de Christofaro
Academy Avenue
Brookside
Valuation Increases In Town Tax Roll For 1949
The 1949 tax roll sets total real estate and tangible and intangible property at 20 369 925, up 3 179 385 from 1948 due to a 20 percent real estate increase except automobiles. Buildings rise to 10 302 260, land to 4 326 425, tangible personal property to 3 544 340. Net valuation for tax is 19 829 395 with total tax 444 940.20 and net revenue 432 013.48 after exemptions. U S Rubber plant valued at 1 659 580. Kearney Post American Legion nominates officers tonight at 8. End of report.
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Board of Tax Assessors
U. S. Rubber Company
Playground Marathon and Pet Show At Town Common
The town playground on the Common will host a marathon and balancing contests next Wednesday as part of a popular annual program. Anthony E. Agatiello announced events include see-saw balance, ball throwing, and long swings, plus a busy attendance boosted by ticket distribution for an August baseball trip. The program also notes a mid season girls track meet next Friday with finalists to compete in the Bristol Warren meet later in August. The annual animal and pet show drew 33 children with dogs cats grasshoppers a snail and a rabbit. prizes went to Frank Silvia and his dog Brownie and Joan Bernado with her cat Belinda Blue.
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Anthony E. Agatiello
Agatiello
Boston
Eleanor R. Lemaire
Bristol-Warren
Frank Silvia
Mary Mancini
Ginger
Jean
Juan Pedro
June Correira
Restrictions Remain As Rainfall Falls Short
At the Warren pumping station Bristol County Water Company reports only 0.39 inch of rain for the week and pumpage near three and a half million gallons daily. Manager Fred P. Stradling says usage remains high despite appeals for conservation as reservoirs sit at about 60.8 percent capacity.
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Warren
Bristol County Water Company
Fred P. Stradling
Ne7german
Mr.Stradling
Mr. Stradling
Bristol County Water Plan Seeks 8 Mile Main
A Bristol County advisory committee reports that a 48 inch water main nearly eight miles long may be required to serve Bristol County and East Providence. The run would extend from Phenix Avenue Cranston to Barrington Park, with 5000 feet beneath the Providence River needing submarine work.
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R. F. Haffenreffer, Sr
Bristol County Public Service Commission
Providence
Bristol County
East Provience
Harry W. Barnstrom
Barrington
Bristol County Water Company
Trials Begin as Bristol Derby Draws Nearly Twenty Entries
Nearly two score entries have been received for the Bristol County Soap Box Derby to be held Sunday with Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church hosting events. Trials start at 1 30 P M with finals at 6 30 P M. Co chairmen Anthony J Bruno and Domenic Vitello oversee prize plans and race day logistics.
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Bristol County
Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church
Anthony J. Bruno
Domenic Vitello
Bay View Avenue
Rego
Barm
Wood Street
Derby
Ice Cream Through the Ages and American Rise
The article traces ice cream from Nero and Marco Polo to Louis XIV and English royalty, then to the thirteen colonies with Joseph Corre and George Washington. It covers Dolly Madison, Jacob Fussell, and the spread of production aided by refrigeration, plus innovations like the sundae and the cone.
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Nero
Rome
Marco Polo
China
New York “Gazette
Joseph Corre
Hanover Square
Jim Porter
Pittsburgh
Ice Cream Men Offer New Flavors Despite Vanilla Lead
A 1950s observer notes that while American favorites remain vanilla the ice cream man offers many ars flavors undreamed of forty years ago prompting numerous people to try the fountain. Demand hints at changing tastes though vanilla still tops sales.
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America
Pete Menscoffes
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