First Baptist Church Plans 125th Anniversary Program
The First Baptist Church of this town marks 125 years since founding with a special program led by Rev. C. J. Yeomans. Events include scripture by Otis M Bailey Sr and an organ recital by Mary R Snook. The 1811 founding followed a Bristol to New York mail vessel shipwreck involving Dr Thomas Nelson.
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First Baptist Church
C. J. Yeeman
Yoomans
Fred F Hodgdon
Otis M Bailey
Mary R Snook
Baptist Church
Bristol
New York
Thomas Nelson
Nelson
Renn
Bob WA
Mesthar Samie Et
Floral Pitcher Exhibit Planned by Countryside Garden Club
The Countryside Garden Club will host a floral pitcher arrangement as the feature of its September 4 meeting at Mrs Walter Kerr’s Hope Street home. A nature hike is planned by month’s end.
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Countryside Garden Club
Walter Kerr
Hope Street
Winifred C Walsh
Samuel C Wardwell
Ralph Kinder
Miriam Skinner
Miss Walsh
Wilfred M Hamill
Santull couple mark 15th wedding anniversary on Hog Island
Mr and Mrs Nicholas Santull celebrated their 15th anniversary at a summer home on Hog Island with more than 40 relatives and guests. A standout event was a mock wedding with the couple as groom and bride, attended by Frank Grristo and wife, and Joseph Santull with Lucy Saviano as flower girl and Elia Grusts Jr. as ring bearer.
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Nicholas Santull
Hog Island
Santull
Frank Grristo
Joseph Santull
Lucy Saviano
Elia Grusts, Jr
Two Weeks Change Rucci Plea In District Court
Guy Rucci 25 of 11 Usher street faced a revelling charge in Fifth District court yesterday after two weeks. He turned to guilty from not guilty and received the maximum $20 fine plus costs, with $20 bail posted for a Superior Court appeal. John McCarthy 21 of 326 Wood street was arrested with him on Aug 9 after a Brad ford street fracas. McCarthy paid his fine and was released.
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Guy Rucct
Usher Street
Fifth District
Rucci
John McCarthy
Wood Street
Bradford Street
McCarthy
Ruucci
William = TyDonnell
W. Vincent Sumpter
Clerk Sumpter
Superor
Vung
Camp Weetamoe Ends Last Day Featuring Varied Activities
Camp Weetamoe on Mt Hope closes after four days with 40 girl scouts enjoying water sports crafts bicycling dramatics nature and trail making. The program included water races a peanut hunt a relay and egg and spoon race as leaders oversee activities and log daily progress.
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Weeamoe
Mt Hope
Tife
Sidney Herreshoff
Agnes Herreshoff
Reginald Dimond
Doris Berwick
King Philp
King Philip
Ralph Kinder
Alan Poole
Camp Weetamoc
Charles Nivstrom
Jane Goetler
Virginia
Ingram Cora Cabral
Albertina del Grado
Margaret Menezes
Formilade del
Katherne Trainor
Margaret McGenn
Anna Abernante
Clair Baker
Mary Brisbane
Brenda Levy
Doerothy Lewis
Vagabones
Shirley
Flynn Phillis
Ann Morris
Nanci Sisson
Peggy Connors
Dora Berwick
Joha James Josephine Jamiel
Lorne Quartaro
Jean Malafronte
Jane Goettler
Betts Jones
Loretta Morin
Lucien Capone Ther
Charles Otten
Norton M Zinderstein
Alfred M Merriman
Art Caravan to Exhibit in Bristol Rhode Island
A traveling Art Caravan featuring historic Rhode Island house models and landscape reproductions will stop at the John Post Reynolds school in Bristol from August 28 to September 4. The carvan, backed by Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, aims to attract visitors with architectural models and landscape art spanning the Middle Ages to modern times. Admission is free.
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Brown University
Rhode Island School of Design
Caravan
Bristol Historical Society
Rhode Island
Bristol
John Post Reynolds School
Brown
School of Design
Carnegie Corporation of New York
PSR
Eleazer Arnold
Tincoln Woods
Elder Ballou
Cumberland
Newport
Parson Capen
Topsfield
Mass
Wyshart
Norfolk
Virginia
Leonardo da Vinci
Monet
Sisley
Cezane
van Gogh
Derain
Murray S. Danforth
State band to play here again tomorrow
Financed through a General Assembly appropriation a state band under Prof Giuseppe Pettine will return to this town tomorrow night for its second concert in a state wide series. The concert will start at 8 and be presented from the bandstand on the Common.
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General Assembly
Giuseppe Pettine
Camp Takarest Reopens With Haffenreffer Support
Camp Takarest on Mount Hope Bay resumes scouting activities this week thanks to generosity from R. F. Haffenreffer. Renovations include two new long houses, a renovated recreation building, new windows and doors, and a plan for a combined mess hall and kitchen. Scouts from the First Bristol Troop plan to assist, with a dedication event anticipated and sessions of the Court of Honor scheduled next week.
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Camp
Takarest
Bristol Bay
Mount Hope Bay
R. F. Haffenreffer
Char ES
Airae Wrett Crite
George R Fish
Bristol
Commissioner Fish
Haffenreffer
Mr Fish
Scouts of
Rhode Island
King Philip
Mount Hope
Court of Honor
Valley and Bellenger Wed in Fall River Ceremony
Miss Dorothy Valley daughter of Mrs Emma J. Valley of 17 Congregational Street and Raymond Bellenger of Fall River were married in Fall River by Justice of the Peace Joseph Delahante. Attendants were Miss Rita Bellenger and Raine Latinville. Mrs Bellenger previously resided in Bristol and attended local schools. Bellenger is an auto mechanic in Fall River.
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Dorothy Valley
Emma J. Valley
Congregational Street
Raymond Bellenger
Fall River
Hanged Man Draws 10000 in Owensboro Crowd
In Owensboro Kentucky a vast dawn crowd of about 10000 gathers to witness the execution of a Black man who murdered a 70 year old white woman. Vendors sell snacks as the crowd presses toward a wooden scaffold while police manage the collapsing fencing and shaky stage.
Boy 22 Ends Life After Meal On Platform
A 22 year old man, described as colored, faces his death with calm as he sits on platform steps after a meal of pork chops and watermelon. He removes his shoes and ascends 13 steps to the platform, expressing he does not want to die with his shoes on.
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Borg Wines
Areps
Dramatic Show Ends in Execution Scene Under Hood
In a crowded 10 000 strong crowd a prisoner faces the noose calmly saying nothing as the hood is placed. The scene is witnessed by Mrs Thompson the county sheriff who cannot perform the duty herself and has a substitute on the platform.
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Thompson
Dramatic Execution Scene Ends in 1936 State
An account details a public hanging at dawn with the trap lever sprung at 528 a m and a rope drop followed by a death pronouncement at 5 444 a m. The crowd tears off the hood and snatches pieces of the cloth as souvenirs.
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United States
New York Boy Receives Local Medal For Best Sport
A 12 year old, Alphonse Darienzo, was awarded a medal in the Lower West Side tenements for being the neighborhood’s best sport. The prize holds great meaning, comparable to an Olympic medal, within his community.
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New York
Lower West Side
Alphonse Darienzo
Darienzo
Sunny Italy lad wins medal through fair play
A crowd of friends and family gathers as a cheerful boy from Sunny Italy recalls his fair play code. He emphasizes fun, obedience to umpires, and no talking back, even as he enters Childrens Aid Society boxing bouts and takes hits with others. He describes how he won the medal.
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Italy
Children’s Aid Society
Alphonse
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Robert Kent
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Devil Doll
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Frank Lawton
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Cora Hill
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