Bristol Firemen Role in Containing New Year Blaze
Editorial lauds Bristol volunteer fire department for halting a potentially disastrous New Year’s Eve fire on State Street fed by gasoline. Calls for enforced fire escapes and notes police headquarters move to the former telephone building, freeing Burnside Memorial Building space and centralizing town offices and services. Highway Surveyor Northup praised for aiding a Polio Fund tree collection by teens. remaining trees to be collected by the Highway Department.
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Bristol
State Street
Police Department
Telephone Exchange
Bristol Police
Welfare Department
Town
Burnside Memorial
Council
Burnside Memorial Hall
Reynolds G. Northup
Northup
Highway Department
New Year Tomato Drop By The Scribe
The article explores sign language's universality from police signals to fans, ushers, and baseball. It notes gestures across cultures, from a bearded man to a woman’s headdress, water cupped hand, and flirt signals with fans. It details theatre, Bobby-sock fashion codes, and the Yankees use of decoy and true signs in managing base path signals.
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Japan
New York
Frank Crocetti
Yankees
Iean
Stengel
Casey
Crocetti
Pias
Crosetti Bewat
Colt Outplays Alumni 57-50 In Preseason Showdown
Colt edged the Alumni 57-50 at Andrews Gym, led by Mascola and Conti with 11 and 10 points respectively. Marshall contributed strong floor play and rebounding as Bruno and Conti each added ten, while the Class of 1956 stars Mans Bettencourt DeMeo and DeLeo paced the alumni. An Old-Timers 36-36 draw capped the charity-night effort for the Alumni Scholarship Fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colt
Andrews Gym
Coventry
Knotty Oakers
Central
Classical
Cranston
Deering
Tony Mascola
Eddie Marshall
Nick Conti
Bruno
Conti
Marshall
Pasqual
Dick Rene
Zip Raiola
Artie Pansa
Chee= Chee
Cirllo
Vin Securd
Church St Slip Clearance OK'd By Town Council
Town Council approved cleaning out the Church Street slip after harbor development commission urged completion. Town Engineer Joseph Murgo to oversee day to day work with Rego and Sons Construction providing a crane at 14 dollars per hour. Town trucks will haul material for fill at the town beach north end. The redo follows delays in 1955 due to Prudence Island Navigation Co. dredging restrictions and now targets cleaning the east and south sides of the slip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Church St
Harbor Development Commission
Joseph Murgo
Rego and Sons Construction Co
Rego
Prudence Island Navigation Co
Police report notes vandalism and a January accident
Albert Emery reports seven glass lights broken at Byfield School last week and again Monday night. Twenty four feet of fence around St Marys Cemetery torn down Monday night. January 2 a car on Sherry Ave struck a pole at 12 03 am injuring four people. Anthony Pinhero 39 driver bruised lip and contused chest. wife Florence Pinhero 37 lacerated shin and slight concussion. Michael Rucci 42 lacerated upper lip and wife Agnes Rucci 45 abrasions of shins and minor concussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Emery
Byfield
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Sherry Ave
Anthony Pinhero
Bristol Phoenix Notice of 1837 Publisher and Pricing
The Bristol Phoenix lists Editor Publisher H K Bosworth and RB Bosworth Jr as managers under office post authorities. It notes subscription price for one year at 8.46 with publication details reflecting a March act.
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Bosworth
Bosworth, Jr
Ee Etter
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Burnside Building
Mr. Northup
Pelio-Fund
Virginia del Toro
Catherine St
Thay
Hove
Umni
George Mans
Tony Bettencourt
Mike DeMeo
Matt DeLeo
IEN
Holy Name Society of Our Lady of
Midway
Jr. Chamber of Commerce
Hope Circle, No. 70
Daughters of Isabella
Church Audi
Bristol Phoenix
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