Local Notes and Visitor Mentions Corner
Community column highlights visits and courtesy extended to guests. Readers are invited to share items about their own travels and mutual interests.
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 27, 1944
Page
2
Community column highlights visits and courtesy extended to guests. Readers are invited to share items about their own travels and mutual interests.
A Bristol reader writes to SGT Del Toro linking frontline letters with home front effort. He praises local workers and elderly labor, notes few strikes amid wartime production, discusses foxholes and weather, and emphasizes morale and solidarity while awaiting the war’s end.
Families in Bristol note Christmas visits and leaves for servicemen. Pvt. Alexander Paiva Jr and Lt. Nathaniel Gladding spend holidays with relatives before duty. several sailors and airmen return or depart for duty at San Diego Sampson and Fort Benning. Local events include a Salvage Committee meeting and a hospital organ drawing at Wood Street.
Memorial verses recalling Reinhard Battcher Vincent Candela Margarite Candela and Anna Del Toro. The poems honor a silent grief, missing loved ones and lasting memories from wives children and family across 1942 to 1944.
The family expresses sincere thanks to friends and neighbors for kindness sympathy flowers and spiritual bouquets during their recent bereavement for the late Manuel Camara.
Lt Talbot MacDonald spoke at the Bristol Rotary Club meeting noon at Melville base. MacDonald captained the Harvard football team in 1941. Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Junior CYO plays league games this evening at 7 in M C Hall with captains Wm Topazio B Mancieri M Murgo A Matrone. Thirty St Cecelia choir members attended a Christmas party with Rev Sorzano Rev Donanzan and four Filippini Sisters. Choir officers included Valerie, president, Diodate, Coccio secretary, Raiola treasurer.
The engagement of Miss Genevieve Barboza daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Barboza 9 Company street Warren to Joseph Rodrigues son of Mr and Mrs Mariano Rodrigues 118 Franklin street this town was announced on Christmas Eve.
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