Town Budget Talks Highlight Calls for Salary Cuts and Community Stores
Budget discussions reveal officials urged commission to cut town salaries rather than department heads. Proposals include a state funded factory to ease unemployment and a central community food store business model. Community grocers and local buyers questioned the impact and pricing, while executive session followed an open three hour meeting to revise budget items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos S. Gorham
Robert J. Anderson
Met
Budget Commission
Rehoboth
F.verett Lee Church
Anderson
Solomon Nussenfeld
Angelo Pozzi
Jacob Bagsing
Pozzi
John G DesLaurers
Rotary Food Station
Anthony R. Parshley
St Michael's Church
DesSalisiers
Paul C. Millemaggi
Bristol
Millemaggi
Ma Kiri Fig
DesLauriers
Ant
Arshley
Femaggi
DesLauriens
deWolf
Nbolt
Ives Genipe
Fred Willams Ntilman
Frank J Sylvia
Augustine Ferone
Samuel Narcditsky
Frank L. Doran
Colt and Trade face Bristol crowd after close Providence clash
Bristol fans anticipate an exciting 3:30 game at Guiteras gym as Colt and Providence Trade collide. Colt led 26-25 in their earlier meeting thanks to George St Angelo’s late surge, part of a 12-2 season record with 483 points to opponents 274.
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Guiteras
Colt
Providence
City
Bristol
George St. Angelo
Colt Basketeers
Mike DeLeo
Weenie Ruggiero
Mello
Lemaire
St Angelo
Mansi
Gallo
Bruno
Medeiros
Sousa
South Kingstown
Rhode Island
Ilan M Walker
Tom Maliff
Battery A Rifemen Triumph Over Providence Squad
The Battery riflemen defeated a Providence based team 95 to 74 in Sunday play. The Coast Guards unit prepared for upcoming matches as players awaited selection for volleyball teams this week under Set Sevigny and Lieut. Garvin ahead of regimental championships at camp this summer.
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Fleet Divsion LE Snor
Providence
Coast Guardsier
Soldier Boys
Sauipes
Myers
Bert
Mt Service Company
Set Sevigny
Lieut. Garvin
Wil
Dietitian Links Overeating To Fatigue Not a New Finding
A dietitian states that eating the right amount rests and refreshes the body while overeating causes fatigue though he treats it as a new insight. The piece recalls an old saying from years ago in the country about eating too much making one poor to carry it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Spread of News Delays in Spreading Scientific Discoveries
The text reflects on the slow dissemination of science with the malaria parasite discovery credited to Waveran in 1889 and mentions Sir Ronald Ross learning of it in 1888 and Dr Claude Lillingston noting the magazine claim.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waveran
Ronald Ross
Claude Lillingston
Ip Hipge
Dinner guests fill Col Merriman box at ball
At a formal dinner before the ball in Providence a distinguished group dined including Adjt. Gen Herbert R. Dean Major N Darrell Harvey Rev Nelson Kellogg Judge Benjamin Lindemuth Benjamin M MacDougall G Moriarty Francois Levay deWolf Henry Wood Morris Phinney Norton Zinderstein Edward Currier Jr Edward Bullock Winthrop deWolf and Mrs Kimball.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Adjt
Herbert — R. Dean
N. Darrell Harvey
Nelson Kellogg
Trinity Church
Benjamin F. Lindemuth
Benjamin M. MacDougall
G. Andrews Moriarty
Francois Levay deWolf
Henry Wood
Morris Phinney
Norton Zinderstein
Edward A Currier, Jr
Edward R. Bullock
Winthrop DeWolf
Robert G. Kimball
Providence
Col. Merriman
Colt Memorial Trounces North Kingstown 66 15 in Gym
Colt Memorial High school led by Weenie Ruggeiro and Mike DeLeo scored 47 of the total 66 to defeat North Kingstown 66 to 15 at the Gutierres gym Friday. North Kingstown suffered its worst loss of the year as Colt built a 2 6 halftime edge in a hard fought game.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weenie Ruggeiro
Mike DeLeo
Colt Memorial High School
North Kingstown High
Guiteras
Anthony Perry
Colt
North Kingstown
Bonnie Blue Flag inspires song by Irish comedian
The Bonnie Blue Flag symbolized the South with a white field a magnolia tree in the center a blue canton bearing a star and a red border. It is said its display in the Mississippi hall during the secession ordinance vote inspired Warry McCarthy to write a song of the same name.
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South
Secessioe
Mississippi
Warry McCarthy
Hedgehog of the Sea describes sea hedgehogs or globes fish
A tropical sea creature known as a sea hedgehog or globes fish inflates its stomach with air or water to form protective spines that protrude. When inflated the fish turns over and floats driven by wind and waves.
Broadway Cabarets Decline Amid Shifting Nightlife Trends
A critic notes New York cabarets and night clubs shrink as classed venues fade. Many small rooms vanish while mid priced spots push No Cover No Minimum. Only Casino in the Park remains relatively strong with Eddie Duchin and Morton Downey drawing crowds.
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New York
Broadway
Winter Garden
Hollywood
Peles Morgan
Beatrice Lillie
Jimmy Durante
Eddie Duchin
Morton Downey
Historic Book Plates Emergence and Early Forms
Book plates are ancient and found in Assyrian libraries and in tenth century Japan. Modern book plates appear with printing, with the earliest authority noting a hand colored heraldic wood cut around 1480.
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Japan
Yeast Cannot Be Completely Destroyed by Cold Says Bureau
The Bureau of Chemistry states that nothing destroys yeast entirely in a squid except boiling. Lower temperatures slow its action but do not stop it completely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of Chemistry
Wiill
New York Night Life Heads and Gossip From 1932
A jumble of social notes from New York and nearby towns covers aristocrats, stage names, and clubs. Clara Bell Walsh stars in Ward Morehouse's New York Town with Frank Daniels and wife at Rye estate. Joan Crawford dances at the Winter Garden. Peps De Albrew and Gene Scott open a club in East 60s. Unemployment fund scandals loom and vaudeville favorites reappear in Brooklyn cabarets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara Bell Walsh
Ward Morehouse
New York
Frank Daniels
Rye
Joan Crawford
Morton Downey
Lois Bull
Macauley
Bide Dudley
Leavenworth
Kansas
Peps de Albrew
Gene Scott
Walter Catlett
Edmond Lowe
Lilyan Tashman
Lowe
San Jose
Calif
Brooklyn
McNaughr Syndicate
Early Weather Records by Rev Campanius
The first weather records in America were kept by Rev Johann Campanius in New Sweden near Wilmington Delaware for 1644 and 1645. This article notes these early colonial observations as the earliest documented daily weather records in the region.
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America
Johann Campanius
New So'dden
Wilmington
Del
Gauge of Stephenson Engine Traced to Farm Wagon Wheels
Railroad gauge used by Stephenson may derive from his farm wagon wheel gauge. Horse drawn vehicles had used a similar gauge since Roman chariots.
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Stephenson
Economic Review Lays Out Cautious Recovery Outlook
The February National City Bank of New York review notes a seasonal upturn but no vigorous recovery. It cites progress in credit support and wage negotiations, with price and cost reductions already in effect. It also argues Reconstruction Finance Corporation measures are not inflationary, stresses gold reserves remain ample, and warns hoarding reflects distrust after bank failures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National City Bank of New York
United States
Germany
Hoover
Congress
Foreign Debt Commission
Ha’ Uch
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Anced
Federal Reserve
Frederick J Cornell obituary in Cranston area
Frederick J Cornell 47 of 15 Burton Street died Sunday after a short illness. He was long employed at Cranston Worsted Mills later with Collins & Aikman and served as day watchman at Namquit plant. A former local baseball figure, he was born in Rock City New York and lived in town since youth. Survived by wife Mary Tremblay Cornell son Broderic A Cornell three daughters Mrs Manuel Morris Mrs Arnold Carroll Jr and Mary Cornell a brother George Cornell Weymouth Mass three sisters Mrs John Gablinske Pawtucket Mrs Lillian Horton Pawtucket and Mrs Ella Sweet Warren. Funeral from his residence at 8:30 AM then mass of requiem at St Marys Church burial in St Marys Cemetery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frederick J. Cornell
Frederick
Henry Cornell
Burton
John Gablinske
Lillian Horton
Pawtucket
Ella Sweet
Warren
St. Mary’s Church
St. Mary’s Cemetery
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Barrington
Warren High
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Joe Diodati
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Pall Rollers
Night Hawks
Tr Ser Gioes
State Armory
Church Street
Stark
Von
Keown
Orymalls
Tern
Pall River
Tae
Kingstown
Colt Memorial
DeLeo
Ruggiero
Ig Bruno
Ig Mello
Mederros
Hara
Gardner Rg
Green
Joval
Nicholson
Uv Conroy
Maxim's
Celeste
49Th Street
Ryley Wilson
West Virginia
Sonny
Heigh Ho
Charles M. Connery
Tly
Cole
Cook
Augustus P . Duffy
W. W. Frankin & Co
Wood Street
Lanzire’s Express
Frank Lanzire
Bristol 383
E. W. Weaver
High Street
Peter Bonvicin
Burton ST
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Robert J. McKay
G. W. Simmons
Willam Street
Garvin's Express
Fettros Street
E. L. Watson Co., Inc
Wey Basset Street
R. I
G. M. Wilbur
Constitution ST. Bristol
R. J. Burke
Bristol District Nursing Association
Hope Street
Fleum
Martha Graham Residenes
Thyra Carlson
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