Ready To Spin Bridge Cables On Mt Hope Span
Visitors to the Mt Hope bridge watch workmen on temporary foot bridges spin parallel wire cables in air for the Bristol Portsmouth span. The process, faster than Bear Mountain and Philadelphia Camden efforts, aims to complete within three months.
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Bristol
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Portsmouth
Bear Mountain
Philadelphia-Camden
Mt Hope
Twilight League rout as Cranston Worsted beats Whirlwind 10 to 0
Frankie Lewis’s Cranston Worsted Company, 1927 Twilight League champions, destroyed Anthony Bruno’s Whirlwind nine 10 to 0 in a five inning game. Foxy Marshall allowed three hits in five innings as Cranston built a big lead with two runs then six in the fourth and extended their winning streak over the Whirlwinds to four. The daily recap notes disputed outs, defensive miscues, and key blows by Pimmett Halbert Jimmie Garvin and Mike Cavallaro as Cranston added runs in the second and fourth innings.
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Cranston Worsted Company
Anthony Bruno
Bruno
Lewis
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Hope
Battery C
Nationals
Cranston
Foxy” Marshall
Fd Quinton
Technical High School
Pete” Gutowski
Johnny Notte
Red’ Hough
Kkmmett
Halbert
Anniversary pageant marks Rhode Island battle commemoration
The 150th anniversary of the Battle of Rhode Island was observed with exercises at Butt’s Hill Portsmouth Tiverton and Newport. Daughters of the American Revolution and Sons of the American Revolution members attended along with the Colonial Company of Bristol Train of Artillery. A pageant in Newport featured citizens as Greene Sullivan Lafayette and a British colonel with a parade of historical floats and military units.
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Butt’s Hall
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Tiverton
Newport
Daughters of the American Revolution
Society of the Sons of the American Revolution
Bristol
Bristol Train of Artillery
Butt's Hill
Aidan Connery
Fort Adams
Butt’s Hill
William Tyler Page
Sullan
John Jo Murphy
New York
Porsymouth of Apes
Mass Aida
Newport Beach
Nathanael Greene
Sullivan Lafayette
Lafayette
D PE Walsh
Massachusetts
United States District Court
Ira L. Letts
Fov Norman
Holiday Post Office Schedule On Labor Day
Postmaster George W Warren announces a limited holiday schedule with no deliveries by city or rural carriers. One collection from street boxes at 7 am and mail dispatch at 8 45 am. Receipts at 6 45 and 7 45 am. Money order registry and postal savings offices closed all day. Windows close at 9 am. Lobby open 7 am to 9 am. Notices for morning carrier mail must be left by 30 pm Saturday Sept 1 1928.
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George W Warren
Labor Day
Field Day on Prudence Island Opens Activities
The Prudence Island Field Day will be held tomorrow afternoon at Battery Point district with F A Whitaker of the Improvement Association in charge. Contests for all ages are planned and expected to attract a larger crowd than last year. An afternoon sale features food fancy work useful articles and drinks.
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F A Whitaker
The
Improvement Association
Bristol's First House to Host Historical Tablet Dedication
Plans emerge to place a bronze tablet on Bristol's earliest dwelling built by Deacon Nathaniel Bosworth around 1680. A Bristol residents committee and the Rhode Island Historical Society will organize dedicatory exercises likely featuring Governor Norman S Case. The home, notable for Colonial architecture, sits beside a garden famed for antique flowers and Mrs Perry’s stewardship.
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Bristol
Rhode Island Historical Society
Deacon W Nathaniel Bosworth
Mr Perry
Deacon Bosworth
Norman S Case
Perry
Bristol to mark first dwelling with tablet ceremony
Residents plan a September event to honor the towns first house on Hope Street. Judge Edward L Leahy will deliver the principal address as the 248 year old dwelling, linked to Bristol’s 1775 bombardment and early religious services, is opened briefly to visitors. The town also prepares for its 250th anniversary in 1930 with a $1000 appropriation.
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William W . Perry
Hope Street
Silver Creek
Claude R. Branch
Rhode Island Historical Society
Edward L Leahy
Bristol
Public road and bridge projects draw Bristol attention
Town activity centers on the new Mite Hope bridge and a state road under construction along Metacom and Griswold avenues. Contractors Lawton and Co. extend road from Child Street to Narrows Road, widen corners at Metacom Griswold and Ferry, and lay a 12 inch water main as crews push to finish before cold weather.
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TTT
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Metacom and
Griswold Avenues
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Metacom
Griswold
Griswold Avenue
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Moonlight Excursion Pleases Bristol Life Saving Branch
A moonlight excursion to Rocky Point hosted by the Bristol Branch of the US Life Saving Corps drew strong attendance. The return trip concluded around midnight.
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Rocky Point
Bristol
US Life Saving Corps
Missing Tina Lapomardo Found Safe in Portland
Tina Lapomardo a 17 year old girl reported missing by her father Frank Lapomardo has been located by her parents. She is in Portland Maine at the home of relatives after being away from her Ryan Avenue home.
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Tina Lapomardo
Ryan Avenue
Frank Lapomardo
Portland
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