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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 04, 1929
Page
3
The Bristol District Nursing Association records December totals 63 care cases and 694 visits across General Metropolitan John Hancock and state child welfare programs. Clinics included 3 child welfare sessions with 79 babies and 1 chest clinic with eight patients.
Matteo Gentile of Providence sells to Michele Grécolo and wife two Bristol Terrace Plat lots numbered 47 and 48 with a dwelling and garage on the easterly side of Center Street.
A young Anatole France sought a reputation for timidity before a lecture tour. He told his press agent to build the image that he was timid, arguing that a quiet persona could enable him to speak less or more freely with impunity. The anecdote highlights how perceived timidity could be leveraged to influence audience reactions.
Ever Ready Engine Company hosts its third annual fair on January 5 12 19 and 26 with Saturday evening events at GAR Hall offering community activities and exhibits.
At No. 2 Ever Ready Engine and Hose Co. meeting committees filed reports on the fair invitees from Town Council and Defiance Hose Co. The annual banquet is set for Wednesday evening January 30. Three applicants were elected to membership and two more were received. Officers elected include Foreman Martin Maher First Assistant Frank Lewis Second Assistant Elmer Lemaire Secretary William J Rinaldi Treasurer Fred Guevremont Jr. Orderly John Vieira Stewart Property Man Fred W Macaulay Jr Delegates to the Rhode Island State Firemen's League Donate Gladue Alternate Harve Gladue.
The First Congregational Church hosts the Sunday morning talk by Maurice C Smith Jr of the Men’s Union Brotherhood. Vernon A Gray and RS Bosworth will perform a vocal duet. Smith discusses Bruce Barton’s What Can a Man Believe. Plan social for Feb 5 with women guests and a men’s quartet.
The Battery will drill on January 8 1929 followed by a meeting to set plans for the year. All members must attend as abstention counts as an affirmative vote. Regimental moving picture tickets will be available for January 11 1929 at Guiteras auditorium. Recent gunner exam results list Expert Gunners and First and Second Class Gunners with names including Sousa Morris Bou tte Bruscate Gonsalves Martin Lewis Castriotta Butler Caladrome Caromle Cocco Collins Carreira Marsanio Servant Silvia.
The piece notes Agra currystones and pestles as coveted kitchen and pharmacy tools in India. It describes their hard wearing surfaces, broad use by households and pilgrims, and mentions marble mortars, stone pestles, and grindstones from Agra Allgarh and Jaipur.
Tax collector Amos S. Gorham reports $290 056.68 collected from 1928 assessments and that $24 311.48 remains unpaid. A list of nonpaying property owners and descriptions is being prepared for advertising and potential legal collection.
Evelyn Munro daughter of the late John Wing Munro and Charlotte Munro died early Wednesday at 275 Hope Street corner of Constitution Street born in 1847 in Bristol. She was active in local society, member of Bristol Chapter Daughters of the American Revolution and Bristol Fortnightly Club. She leaves sisters Eleanor B Munro and Mrs Lewis H Church. Funeral at her residence tomorrow afternoon with interment at Juniper Hill Cemetery.
Relatives from Bristol attend funeral rites for Mrs Theresa De Pasquale wife of Michele De Pasquale who died in Hartford. Born in Bristol in 1895 daughter of Aniello and ? Federico of 495 Wood Street she lived there before moving to Hartford with her husband. Survived by two daughters one son two brothers Ambrose and Anthony Federico proprietors of a laundry and a sister Mrs Ruggieri.
The funeral for Mrs. Josephine Crescuolo wife of Abelo Crescuolo was held Wednesday morning from 219 State Street Bristol after a Rhode Island Hospital illness. A requiem mass at Our Lady of Mt Carmel was led by Rev Fr James Ruffo with Ave Verum sung at the offertory. Interment followed at St. Marys. Mrs Crescuolo, 44, born in Scafati Italy, leaves husband two daughters Mrs Jennie Ayle of Derby Connecticut and Miss Rose Crescuolo and three sons Thomas Albert and Antonio Crescuolo all of Bristol.
Theresa De Pasquale of Hartford aged 33 and Evelyn Munro of Bristol aged 81 or 82 die on January 2. Theresa was wife of Michele De Pasquale and daughter of Mr and Mrs Annelle Federico of this town. The Bristol obituary notes Evelyn Munro in her 82d year.
In joving remembrance of Edward P Valley who departed this Hfe January 4th, 1921 my thoughts wander to a grave far away. Eight years ago today they laid my dear brother. Thou art gone but not forgotten, fresh my love will ever be. For as long as there is memory, brother I will think of thee. Your loving sister Mrs Josephine Garvin.
A lighthearted remark appears in the Cincinnati Enquirer joking that an optimist believes the car’s small trunk could hold all his wife wants to bring on a trip. The item captures a dated humor style of the era.
Hi Ho of Chinatown comments on civilization as a mere fashion following urge. His remark appears in the Washington Star as a pithy philosopher’s aside.
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