Bristol Cleared After Two Snowstorms Tie Up Town
Bristol digs out after back to back storms dumped 2 to 24 inches of snow. Highway Surveyor Richard Connery notes plows busy but hindered by parked cars and limited staff. Residents use sleighs and snowshoes as crews sand streets and clear hydrants. Bread Crumbs urged for birds.
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Bristol
Richard Connery
Connery
Mr Connery
Highway Department
Mr. Connery
Frank Usher
Helen Church
Trinity Church
Moses Moore
Elementary P T A Meeting at Walley School
Bristol Elementary Parent Teacher Association will meet at Walley School Thursday afternoon. Open house runs 2 30 to 3 30 with a 33X o'clock meeting. Mrs. Lucien Capone will report on state child welfare efforts. Students participate and tributes will honor Alice McClellan Birney and Phoebe Hearst.
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Bristol Elementary Parent Teacher Association
Walley School
Lucien Capone
State Congress of Parents and Teachers
Alice McClellan Birney
Phoebe Hearst
Parent Teacher Association
Betsey Ann Butt Inducted Into WAVEs in Boston
Betsey Ann Butt daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry A Butt of Constitution Street was inducted into the Womens Auxiliary Volunteer Emergency Service in Boston. She will train at Hunter College New York City starting March first after moving to Bristol last year. She is a Hope High Providence graduate and attended the School of Practical Arts in Boston. She is a sophomore at the R S School of Design and teaches at St Michael's Church School. Her paintings are exhibited in Mrs Millards store in the Y M C A Building.
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Betsy Ann Butt
Henry A. Butt
Constitution Street
Women’s Auxiliary
Boston
Hunter College
New York City
Miss Butt
Bristol
Hope High
Providence
School of Practical Arts
R. S. School of Design
St Michael
Rubinoff To Lecture At School Assemblies
Rubinoff will visit Bristol to lecture pupils of the Senior and Junior High Schools on music appreciation and public school benefits. Two assemblies are planned at 10:30 in Guiteras Junior High and later at Colt High School for high school pupils. Talks promote War Savings Stamps and Bonds through the Treasury.
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Rubnoff Os
Bristol
Guiteras
Colt High School
United States Treasury
Good Results Seen In Tag Day Last Week
Mrs Vas ta YaR Ruggiero chairwoman said the infantile paralysis tag days produced good results despite cold weather. The committee will meet Sunday at the YMCA to count funds and review responses to a special appeal. Twenty two hundred tags were sold across three tag dais.
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Vasta Yar Ruggiero
Sunda
Bristol Woman Becomes First WAAC Member
Mrs Ruth V Toevs of 19 Cole Street Bristol is sworn in as a WAAC member in Tampa Florida becoming the first Bristol woman to join the corps.
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Ruth V. Toevs
Waacs
Ruth V Toves
Cole Street
Bristol
Tampa
Florida
Toevs
Maacs
Mailing rules tighten for overseas troops
Postmaster Daniel W. Coggeshall announced new limits on parcels to U S Navy Marine Corps or Coast Guard personnel overseas. No parcel over 5 pounds or exceeding 15 inches in length or 36 inches in length and girth combined will be accepted. One such parcel per week per addressee is allowed by mailers, while Army overseas shipments remain subject to earlier rules. V Mail is encouraged to save space and cargo for war needs. Matches must not be mailed overseas.
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Daniel W. Coggeshall
Washington
U. S Navy
Marine Corps
Coast Guard
New York
San Francisco
Calif
Coggeshall
Army
Navy
Coyoweshall
New School Bus Schedule Delayed in Several Towns
A revised bus schedule by Superintendent ES Mapes to enforce the two mile rule faced delay in Bristol and will not take effect yet. Complaints from parents about near routes have been sent to the DDT for action. In Barrington and Warren changes limit walking and prioritize small children.
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ES Mapes
Bristol
Mir Mapes
Mount Hope Avenue
Métacom Avenue
High Street
Griswold Avenue
Ferry Road
Barrington
Warren
Ralph D Teary
John M. Harkins
Civic League Holds Portuguese American Civic League Installation
The Portuguese American Women’s Civic League held installation ceremonies Sunday evening at the Lobster Pot. Miss Elsie Medeiros served as installing officer. New officers include President Margaret B. Andrade, Vice President Mary F. Nunes, Treasurer Mary Mello, Recording Secretary Josephine Mello, Corresponding Secretary Aldina Menezes, Publicity Chair Margaret Menezes, and Program Chairman Phyllis Sousa. The International Institute in Providence discussed services for foreign-born residents.
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Aldina Menezes
Margaret Menezes
Phyllis Sousa
Enrollment urged for Bristol County women to aid defense plants
Walter J Geary announces nationwide enrollment cards for women aged 16 to 60 in Bristol County. Cards are distributed through West Barrington Warren Bristol and Barrington post offices with options to pick up at Warren or Bristol offices. The drive seeks hundreds of workers, with endorsements from local organizations and churches. Office hours extended to assist, no postage required.
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Walter J. Geary
Warren
U. S. Employment Service
War Manpower Commission
Bristol County
West Barrington
Barrington
Bristol
Church Street
Bristol Post Office
US Employment Service
Women's Missionary Society of the
Barrington Congregational Church
Fdna H Covell
Hope Circle
Daughters of Isabella
Lena FE McKenna
St John's Church
Mars B Peck
Bristol Salvage Committee
Tan Mo Walker
Bristol Jr.Sr. High School
Parents and Teachers Association
Ian M. Walker
Burnside Lodge
Knights of Pythias
Francis M. Luther
Kirkemuit Grange
Martha Washington
Order of the Eastern Star
Ethel L. M. Ainsworth
White Church Women’s Club
The
Ruth Anthony Davis
Dorothy L. Kingsford
U S. Employment Service
Lieutenant Alder Blumer Howe Killed in Action
The town learns of the 24 year old Second Lieutenant Alder Blumer Howe U S Marine Corps son of Mr and Mrs Paul D Howe of Chestnut Hill Philadelphia and summer resident here killed in action in the Solomon Islands He was a Harvard graduate and former member of the Hasty Pudding Club and A D Club He enlisted April 1940 and had served in action at Guadalcanal since October A telegram says he will be buried at Guadalcanal with his parents and sisters noted as survivors.
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Alder Blumer Howe
Marines
Paul D Howe
Chestnut Hill
Philadelphia
Solomon Islands
St Paul's School
Concord
Harvard University
Hasty Pudding Club
Harvard
St Howe
Pennsylvania Company Bank of
Walter Lippincott
George Clark
Arthur W Howe
G. Alder Blumer
Providence
Regular Meeting Of Ladies Benevolent Society At St Michael’s
The Ladies Benevolent Society of St Michael’s Church met yesterday afternoon at the Holmes House. Bad road conditions prevented speaker Mrs Robert F Daniels from attending. Rev A R Parshley read two short stories Sarki by H H Monroe and The Two Carpenters by Iona Gale, followed by a poem about Edwin Booth. Hostesses included Mrs Wilford Clark and several others.
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Ladies Benevolent Society
St Michael’s Church
Holmes House
Robert F Daniels
Providence
The
Red Cross
A R. Parshley
H. H. Monroe
Iona Gale
Edwin Booth
Heaven
Salvage Committee Approves Recreation Budget Plan
The Salvage Committee approved an $8000 recreation budget led by Hubert F Thll for a summer program in the town. Ian M. Walker presided, with Archie P. Allen named supervisor for ten weeks at a $350 salary, and $250 for new equipment and supplies. Repairs and equipment reviews will be conducted by Walker and Hill, with high school shop students assisting.
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Hubert F Thll
Ian M. Walker
Paull House
Archie P. Allen
Recreation Committee
Highway Department
Walker
Hill
Rubinoff Triumphs With Stradivarius Violin World Record Crowd
The article chronicles violinist Rubinoff and his prized Stradivarius, a 1731 Cremona instrument once owned by the Romanoffs. It notes the violin’s history, the scarcity of authentic Strads, and Rubinoff’s rise from Grodno to international fame including a 225,000 attendance record in Chicago.
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Antonio Stradivari
Cremona
Italy
Romanoffs
Rubinoff
Grodno
Royal Conservatory
Warsaw
Berlin
Vienna
United States
Pittsburgh
Atletica
Chicago
Grant Park
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Betsey Ann Butt
Waves
Tulsa
Ann Miller
Betty Rhodes
Frankie Albert
Stanford
Fred MacMurray
Paulette Goddard
Susan Hayward
Forest Rangers
Richard Arlen
Arline Judge
Civic League
Quadalcanal
Wilford Clark
Lillian T. Wilson
Lena Morris
Walter O. Talbot
Edith Newman
Arthur Carr
Charles Davis
Suect
Allen
Reynolds Northup
Meyer Paley
Stradwari
Stradivari
Nicolo Amati
Amati
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