Red Cross Seeks 100 More Blood Donors for Mobile Unit
About 100 more donors needed to reach 500 for a Red Cross Mobile Blood Donor Unit visit at St Michael's Parish House this Thursday and Friday. The unit arrives with a doctor and nurses and will run with canteen volunteers providing refreshments. Major corporate groups including US Rubber Company Bristol Mfg Crown Fastener and Collins Jarkman Corp contributed volunteers. Names of many donors listed.
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Red Cross
Clara L. Diman
The
St. Michael’s Parish House
W. Frederick Williams
Biagio del Toro
A. A. Edmonds
US Rubber Company
Bristol Mfg Company
Collins J& Afrkman Corp
Bristol Town settles suit with New England Concrete for 1500
The Town of Bristol reached a out of court settlement of 1500 with New England Concrete Company at a Friday town council meeting. Present were Town Solicitor Lucien Capone Judge Edward Leahy Town Treasurer Wm H Angevine and Wilfred M Hamill. The group unanimously agreed to settle for ten percent of the original suit amount citing likely higher court costs. The town will file the agreement with Superior Court and send a check to the company.
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Bristol
New England Concrete Company
Lucien Capone
Edward Leahy
Wm H Angevine
Wilfred M Hamill
Andrews
Leahy
Angevine
Motor Corps to be Awarded Service Stripes
Members of the Bristol Red Cross Motor Corps will receive service stripes at 8 pm in St Michael's parish house. Capt Edward S Moulton and motor corps staff will attend along with other Red Cross officials. Rev Anthony R Parshley will present the awards, with James F E Sullivan leading a gas mask drill after the ceremonies.
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Bristol Red Cross Motor Corps
St Michael’s
Edward S. Moulton
Motor Corps
Red Cross
Anthony R. Parshley
Bristol
James FE. Sullivan
Miss Alice B. Almy Re elected Bristol Historical Society Head
Miss Alice B. Almy was re elected president of the Bristol Historical Society at the annual meeting in the Holmes House. Officers and directors were re elected and committees named including work on war records and compiling servicemen clippings for Warren Bristol and East Providence.
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Alice B. Almy
Bristol Historical Society
Holmes House
Charles O. F. Thompson
Leo G Cote
Wallis E. Howe
Robert J Connery
Edward E. Leahy
F Reginald Dimond
Athbert A. Edmonds
Nominatng
F Emanuel Tacoletti
Leah B Young
Mars FE Spooner
Iathan T' Wilson
Albert Battcher
Whaitham P Gladding
Canon A R Parshley
Stanley Friswell
Earl P Mathewson
Henry Ko Vye
State Council of Defense
Rhode Island
Vye
Miss Almy
Warren
Bristol
East Providence
Alms
Wye
Open House at Ella Millard Exhb Brings Bristol Art Crowd
Sunday attendees viewed watercolors pastels and pen and ink sketches by Anne Mast Dorothy Holt Gerald Mast and Waldo Kauffer at Ella Millard 450 Hope Street Bristol. Kauffer now serves in the U S Army camouflage department and attended the event. Attendees praised the exhibit and hoped for more shows in the future featuring Bristol scenes still lifes landscapes portraits and surreal works.
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Bristol
Reba Rebekah Lodge Bridge-Whist Event Planned
The Reba Rebekah Lodge Social Committee schedules a bridge whist for tomorrow evening with patronesses including Mesdames Bunn McCaughey McMillan Steere Coggeshall Coutanche Hasbrouck Murray Taplin Alder Marshall Capone Clark Gladding Hill Scott Miller Bernard McKenna Bottomley and Miss Hill Dunbar Donations come from several ladies led by Huestis Hall Brightman Barrett Crown Angevine Marz Lindell The committee includes Anderson Byone Brightman Gladding Brelsford A delegation from Kearney Post attends last night’s banquet for Warren Atherton National Commander of the American Legion with Commander Gladue and several former leaders.
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Reba Rebekah Lodge
Edward Bunn
Harry McCaughey
William K. McMillan
Wallace Steere
Charles Coggeshall
Adrian Coutanche
Sherman Hasbrouck
George H. Murray
John H. Taplin
Ernest Alder
George F. Marshall
Lucien Capone
Malcolm Clark
William P. Gladding
Elwin Hill
Chares Scott
Archibald Miller
Luella Byone
Raymond S. Brightman
Pauline Brelsford
Tag Day Planned to Support Infantile Paralysis Fund
Bristol town launches Thursday tag day in schools and shopping districts to raise funds for the Infantile Paralysis Fund. Local chair Mrs Raymond S Brightman leads a committee including Mrs James McKenna and Dr Frederick V Martin with students from Bristol High and Guiteras Jr High aiding the drive. Collections already made at the Pastime Theatre featured volunteers Gerald McKenna Joe George Raymond De Costa and Anthony Bernardo assisting ushers.
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Raymond S. Brightman
Brightman
James McKenna
Harold C. Peckham
Jane Walker
Viola Anderson
Jean McGeary
Hubert F Hill
Frederick V. Martin
Young Women’s Club
YMCA
Martin
National Foundation For Paralysis
Frederick Martin
Bristol County Committee
Stuents
Bristol High School
Mary Ferrara
Pauline Aguar
Janice Hayden
Caroline D'Amico
Catherine Connery
Nancy Ferrara
Guiteras
Bernice Callan Byfield
James DeWolf
Robert O'Connell
Carol Benson
Joseph Martinio
Walley
Nicholas Tingley
Richard Coristine
Frances Martinez
Ruth Wilson
Oliver
Gordon Fields
Mario Mancieri
Joseph Furtado
Dolores Martin
Burton
Eunice Megathlin
Karen Kinder
Taft
Annie Tobin
St. Mary's Parochial School
Harold King
Robert Richards
Margaret McCarthy
Patricia Warren
Feast Day Services At Three Catholic Churches This Week
The Feast of the Purification and Feast of St Blase will be observed in three Catholic churches with 7 am Masses and candle blessing on Wednesday. Throat blessings follow 7 am Masses on Thursday at St Elizabeths and St Marys. Our Lady of Mt Carmel adds a 7:30 am Mass and throat blessing. Schoolchildren have 3:30 pm Thursday services. St Marys hosts a 7:30 pm Thursday service.
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St. Blase
Our Lady of Mt. Carmel
St. Elizabeth’s
St. Mary's Church
Two Practise Bombs Fall Here Sunday Morning
Naval and Army Intelligence officers investigated private property damage from two practice bombs that fell Sunday morning around 9 55. One bomb pierced the Cape God cottage roof at 1242 Hope Street owned by Mr and Mrs George H Brooks Jr and buried in the lawn. The second bomb exploded a few seconds after an automobile passed on Hope Street in front of Walter Kerr house. fragments and a blue gray smoke cloud observed by Kerr. Police found eight inch long bombs weighing about two and a half pounds with red painted fins and a center hole for powder. no explosion occurred. Adjustments arranged with owners.
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Army
Intelligence Service
Cape God
Hope Street
George H. Brooks, Jr
Walter Kerr
Brook
Anna Kinsella
William T. Cashin
Euclid J. Demars
Police Department
Plasma as lifeblood of war front and homefront donors
A veteran battalion surgeon recounts carrying plasma to wounded soldiers and praising its life saving impact. The piece lauds Eli Lilly & Co for providing two million blood donations at cost and highlights diverse donors including blind volunteers, refugees, and service members aiding the war effort.
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Edward L. Smith
R. I. Hospital
Indianapolis
Eli Lilly & Co
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis
Detroit
Cincinnati
Louisville
Columbus
Lilly
Lilly Co
State Guard Seeks Enlistments Amid War Demands
Brig. Gen. Peter Leo Cannon urges Rhode Island men aged 18 to 52 to join the State Guard to replace draftees and meet war industry needs. Under 21 require parental consent. enlistment for Co. G via the Armory each Wednesday or Captain Mantel Morris Jr. at Bristol. Also report announces Nellie Anderton engaged to Ensign Angelo Massa son of Mrs. Biagio Massa.
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Rhode Island State Guard
Peter Leo Cannon
State Guard
Regular Army
Navy
Co. G
Armory
Capt. Mantel Morris Jr
Oliver Street
Bristol
Alexander Anderton
Burton Street
Nellie
Angelo Massa
Soni
Biagio Massa
Metacom Avenue
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Anna Ferrara
Albert LeClerc
Teresa Marino
Jeanne Angevine
Pauline Brunelli
Mary Alfred
Dorothy Foster
Pauline Bullock
Harry Bullock
Hubert F. Hill
Mary Vieira Daniel Dias Manuel Costa Etha Brown
Joseph Dennis
Carl Witherell
Lillian Lawson Domingo Camara
Zoe Raiola
John MacGovern
Harold Pedley
Edith Bisbane
Herman -Kemph
Barbara Phipps
Paul Shelton
Howard Jones
Frank Brightman
George Robinson
Walter Urban
Charles Pendleton
Arthur McLarren
Charles Marabello
Felicia Della Morte
Alice Williams
Elizabeth Sousa
Anna Andruezensa
Mrs
M. C. Smith
Mary Diello Carmello Serpa
Ida Ferrara Cidalia Gomes Myrtle Federico Philomena Apicella
Effie Leland
Philomena Castro
John DeLima Lauro Pimental
Anne Abenande
Ruth Campbell
Caroline Salzano Madelyn Conklin
George Puccio
Virginia Borge, Earl Dunbar
Ferdinand Cost
Thomas Fatkin
Frank Bathrick
Ruth Sisson
Edmund Byrne
Mary DeFelice
Eugene Bullock Joseph Robinsc
Albert Blouin
Francis Brown
Wilfred Gladue
George Maddox
Alex Borchie
Allen Brownell
Katherine Nenna Aurora Paiva Rose George Katherine Hammill James Sousa
Albert T. Fusoniec
Madeline Flint
Ermond Calandra Lavina Medeiros
Frank Hertell
Albert Moniz
Frances Hogan
Sarah Wood
Elvira Bullock
Catherine Rinald
Mary Velleca
Dorothy Costa
Gladys Serbst
Winifred Oldham Gaetano Stanzione Burnham
Etd
Herbert B. Anna Andruczewska
Robert Maclachlan
Beatrice St Angelo
TUBS
Charles Butterworth
Patric Knowles
Grace McDonald
Andrews Sisters
Roy Rogers
WED
Judy Canova
Nelson Eddy
Susanna Foster
Claude Rains
Professor Saalee Mr. Talt
Historical Society
Ella Millard
Kearney
Usher Place
James O'Leary
Warren and Barrington
Bristol Court House
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Indianapolis News
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RAF
London
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