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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1949
Page
2
The piece urges readers to send birthday greetings to Herbert Hoover at Palo Alto California as he turns 75 tomorrow. It praises his thirty five years of humanitarian service and asks for letters and possible gifts to support the Hoover Institute and War Library at Stanford University.
Sergeant Hetty Newman visits his parents in Edenton while Misses Judith Anne Coggéshall and Carolyn Canning visit relatives in Bethel Connecticut Miss Cora M Hill vacations with Judge Green in Rangeley Maine Bristol Fire Department meeting postponed Adams Battcher play school closes Mary Ann Ferrera born at Lying In Hospital Providence Geraldine Ficarra born at Lying In Hospital Providence Hibernians clambake planning at St Marys Auditorium Vermont nurses earn top class standing Three UVermont students return from pediatrics affiliation Old Orchard Beach Maine vacationers plan Boston visit McKeever guests from Pittsburgh and Arlington trips
Fifty persons attended yesterday afternoon as the Bristol Women's Club held a tea at 221 Hope Street the home of Mrs Kenneth E Olson. The event aimed to enlist new members and several joined. Folders with next season’s programs were distributed and organizers praised the event. Committee: Mrs Raymond J Makowsky Mrs Vernon A Gray Mrs John Andrade Mrs James A McKenna Mrs O Reid LeClair and Mrs R S Bosworth assisted Olson.
Francis DeRiso aged 12 led 26 entrants on Bay View avenue to clinch the Bris tol County Derby trophy and a full size bicycle. Joseph Vacaro finished second by twelve lengths. Manuel Rezendes placed third and George Mello earned a special prize for originality. Local entrants from this town included Edmund Dias James Rossie Frank Ruggiero Joseph Murgo Joseph Silvero Ralph Fasano Peter Quintal Raymond Francis William Klegg Lens Sousa Dominick Buccello Gilbert Botelho John Simmons John Gerone and John Borges.
Carl V. Slader directs a Red Cross safety demonstration this afternoon at 2:30 on Hope Street Beach. Fire Department Rescue Squad head Captain Hike White will participate along with several others and Vincent Securo’s beginners class.
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