Congregation series to feature Dr Jims Brougher speaker
Tuesday evening event presents Dr Jims Brougher at Congregation in the third of a series of ad deeds by the Men's Union sponsored program. Other listings include a Dec 2 Pastime Theatre benefit and a Dec 22 St Rita's Girls Club Christmas party with additional charity events in January including a BTA Band concert and a Rotary Food Station fundraiser.
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Goming
Jimbs
Brougher
Congregatina
Men’s Union
Bristol
St. Rita’s Girls’ Club
Over-Seas
Elsie Lovell Hawkins
Guiteras School
Rotary Food Station
Seth Parker
Christian Endeavor Society
First Baptist Church
Making a World It Takes All Sorts of People
A reflective quote from the Los Angeles Times about the diverse kinds of people who shape the world, emphasizing the collective contribution of varied lives to society.
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Los Angeles Times
Bristol boxers expected in 147lb Golden Glove slate
The 147 pound class at the Golden Glove Amateur Boxing championship in Infantry Hall Providence Friday night may feature Bristol welterweights Bill Furtado and Al Diodati as top contenders. Barron and Andrews also entered, with Caissi and Phillips in others. notable names from Bristol and surrounding towns vie for a title.
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Infantry Hall
Providence
Bristol
Bill Furtado
al Diodati
Bristol County
Sidney Barron
Barrington
Jimmy Andrews
Lonsdale
Diodati
Furtado
Barron
Manuel Phillips
Rhode Island
Ernest Coderre
Pawtucket
Manny
Colt Memorial Opens Season Against Alumni Quintet
Colt Memorial High School begins its basketball season Friday in Guiteras gym facing the Colt Alumni squad. The alumni have a recently organized lineup with two prior games, while past meetings often featured alumni with little practice.
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Colt Memorial High School
Guiteras
Colt
Colt's Basketball Schedule Features 14 Conference Games
Coach Tan M Walker announces Colt’s season schedule including 14 Conference Class B games and tuneups against the Alumni Pawtucket High Freshmen and AI State Freshmen. Readouts listDecember January fixtures at Guiteras Pawtucket Kingston Bristol Warren Wickford Wakefield Prov Bristol and other campuses.
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Colt
Pawtucket High
Tan M. Walker
Guiteras
Pawtucket
R. S
Kingston
Bristol
Cumberland
Barrington
Warren
Kingstown
Wickford
Wakefield
Fed
Providence
Qopen
Alumni
Gutteras
Valley Falls
Burrillville
Pascoag
Hermes Head Column Found in Athens Excavation
American archaeologists uncover a marble Hermes headed column with a missing infant head in ancient ruins at Athens. A woman's hand holds the infant. the body is absent. British School finds remains of an ancient temple of Juno and proto-Corinthian vases near Loutraki.
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Hermes
Athens
Bristol Se wer Contract Plans Se tn
Callan Construction Co proposes a Bristol sewer contract employing about sixty men in two crews ten experienced workers per crew. Nonlocal workers would receive one week on one week off. Local preference and local purchasing aim to keep spend in Bristol. Abraham Lincoln quote cited.
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Bristol
Abraham Lincoln
Europe
Callan Construction Co
Callan Construction Submits Cost Plus Proposal for Hope Street Sewer
Cal lan Construction Company proposes a cost plus ten percent plan to build the Hope street intercepting sewer with plans by H. K. Barrows. The bid caps their portion at 55000 dollars and favors local purchases where feasible.
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Callan Construction Company
Hope Street
H. K. Barrows
Beacon Street
Boston
Mass
Sewer Commission
Callan Construction Co
Bidders and prices for concrete and vitrified pipe installations
Bid results list multiple bidders with amounts for concrete pipe and vitrified pipe installations. Providence firms like D Mondillo & Sons and Frank W Christy show figures from about 35 000 to 69 000 dollars, while others from Boston Worcester Hartford and New Haven also submit varying bids.
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D.mondillo & Sons
Providence
Frank W. Christy
Callan Construction Company
Antonio Aiello
N. Cibotti
Hyde Park
Mass
Zoppo
Zoppo & Civittarese, Dorcester, $40,915: D. V. Frione
New Haven
A. Grandi
Roslindale
John Ambrose
Cranston
Bruno & Pettini
Boston
W. W. Staples
North Attleboro
Louis Petrossi
Hartford
Joseph Long
Leominster
D. Mondillo & Sons
Frank W Christy
Bristol
N. Cibotti & Co
King’s Lynn Reopens Historic Mart With Modern Broadcast
The mayor proclaims the King's Lynn mart open using a microphone to guide a dense crowd through the historic market route. The charter granted by Henry VIII preserves rights for wandering showmen, with the procession led by the beadle and sword-bearer amid garbed officials.
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England
King's Lynn
Henry VIII
King’s Barn
Trinity Guild
Showmen’s Guild
John
Your Column Offers Space for Timely Town Topics
This column invites residents to send short comments on local welfare and town interest. Readers may share opinions on timely topics affecting the community and the editor will consider publication. Submit brief notes for potential inclusion in future editions.
Small world ties bind Bristol exiles in New York
John Dunbar writes from Flushing Illinois recalling Bristol friends and family he met in New York. He lists Ed ward Gladue James Gallagher Walter Christensen Mickey McGuire Oscar Rische and others, noting frequent contact through the Bristol Phoenix and a Chislers Club branch.
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Bristol
Bristol Phoenix
John St. Angelo
Phenix
Edward Gladue
Down South
Holmes Brothers
New York
John Lonergan
Michael Ruggiero
Oscar Rische
Chislers
Colt High
Walter
Christensen
Gallagher
Mickey
Battery C Displays Its 243rd C A Medals and Trophies
Medals and trophies won by Battery C of the 243rd C A (H D) are shown at Edward D Kunz's Jewelry Store. The events include the Mayor Allen tug of war cup won by Battery C for the first time, and a pitcher cup won by Battery C in 1929 31. Sergt Morris and Sergt Sevigny are noted for rifle skills and turkey shoot success.
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Battery C
243Rd C. A
H.D
Edward D. Kunz
H. V. Allen
Stanley Sprague
Battery A
Battery H
James J Garvin
F. McMillan
Joseph Ruggeiro
William Simmons
Manuel Morris
Leo Sevigny
Sergt
Morris
Rumford Rifle Range
Veterans of Providence
Adjutant Generals
Sergt Morris
Warren
Sergt. Sevigny
Sergt Sevigny
Sergt. Sevigney
Coined Word milline Defined in 1921 Letter
The term milline is a contraction of million line and denotes a unit of space and circulation equal to one agate line in a column and about 2 percent of an inch. It results from multiplying agate lines by copies circulated and dividing by one million, as defined in a September 1921 letter from Benjamin H. Jefferson to Doctor Yizetelly.
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Benjamin H. Jefferson
Yizetelly
Judge Lindemuth Warns Teen Tormentors in Street Case
In Fifth District Court Judge Benjamin F. Lindemuth imposes $5 and costs fines on Manual Coite and Rudolph Trudell for annoying girls and reveling on High Street. The judge warns that future charges would bring harsher penalties.
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Benjamin F. Lindemuth
Fifth District
East State Street
Rudolph Trudell
High Street
Richard J Kavanaugh
T. Edgar Sutcliffe
Mexican Petroleum Corp
Thomas Brayton
Lindemuth
Giuseppe Arone
John Mott
Arone
Mason Avenue
Mott
Mr. Mott
Emilio D. Iannucillio
Old-Fashioned Winters Seen Through Adult Eyes
A reminiscence notes that grown people recall snowy winters from childhood as things felt larger then. Snowdrifts that once seemed waist high to a child appear only knee high to an adult, illustrating perspective shifts over time.
Dorothy Mackaill Stars in Party Husband at National
Dorothy Mackaill stars in Party Husband a First National comedy drama of modern married life showing a sophisticated bride who seeks independence in business and romance while her husband clings to casual wit. James Rennie plays the philandering husband as the couple explore changing vows.
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Dorothy Mackaill
Goose
Gander
Jay
Laura
James Rennie
Dorothy Mackall
Up Pops the Devil in New York Comedy Romance
Friday December 18 review notes Paramounts latest comedy romance from a Broadway hit. Norman Foster and Carole Lombards troubled marriage in a sophisticated Greenwich Village apartment drives a plan to reinvent their life. A sugary Southern girl upstairs disrupts the scheme leading to amusing near tragedy and a pleasant ending.
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Greenwich Village
Paramount
Norman Foster
Carole Lombard
New York City
Foster
Secrets of a Secretary features Claudette Colbert heroine
In this tale a society girl coping with vanished fortune becomes a shrewd working woman after her husband, a fortune hunter, deserts her. Georges Metaxa stars as the villainous husband in Paramount’s film adaptation.
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Helen Blake
Claudette Colbert
Georges Metaxa
Paramount
London
Fashion of Charles I era: ladies shoes and men's boots
During the reign of Charlies I and TI ladies' shoes were very elegant and beautiful and not so ridiculous. The men wore velvet and Spanish leather boots.
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Charlies I and TI
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