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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1939
Page
5
Three amusements promise thrills at the New York World’s Fair of 1939. A sketch with George Jessel’s Old New York features Steve Brodie leaping from the Brooklyn Bridge six times daily. A 250 foot parachute jump will deliver happy landings for riders.
Rouen, a major museum town on routes from Channel ports to Paris, has been praised as the City of a Hundred Steeples and called the Florence of the North for its rich art treasures. A botanist studying California missions examined adobe bricks and plant fragments used in mud brick binding. The Black Codes were a set of post Civil War laws in the South regulating Black people, with some states enacting harsher provisions.
Jerome Donovan will play the juvenile lead in the comedy Big Hearted Herbert presented by St Marys Players on Thursday night in the Guiteral Auditorium. Ticket sales progress quickly with a capacity audience expected. reserved seats are available at Duffy's store.
The Bristol US Rubber Co team hosts Waterbury Scovell in a Nutmeg State League game at the recreation hall. Bristol, coached by James F E Sullivan, sits at 5-5 this season while Scovell features Ross Weaving Stan Grey Roy Bates Norm Blandin and Jimmy Crowe. The Carr Manufacturing Co. team follows in the preliminary contest. Opening tip is 2 30 P M.
At First Baptist on High Street Rev Arthur W Burdon leads morning worship at 10 30 with 11 45 church school and 8 00 union service at First Congregational on Bradford and High Streets led by Rev Herbert D Graetz. Our Lady Mt Carmel on State Street offers masses at 7 00 8 30 and 10 30 with St Marys on Wood Street at 7 30 9 and 10 30 and 7 00 evening devotion. St Michaels Hope Street has 8 00 Holy Communion 9 00 service 10 00 Trinity morning prayer and 11 00 Children Eucharist with 8 00 pm union Baptist service.
Guiteras Memorial junior high school pupils presented a thrifty program featuring a one act play Captain John of the Penny Brigade and a segment with seven Grade 9B girls giving advice on How to be Thrifty. Participants included Walter Brelsford Emily Principe Albert Byrnes Victor Trask Eartha Brown Antonio Morro and Taddeo Apicello. Mary is named among the seven.
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