Bristol hosts UNO visit amid winter charm on Poppasquash
Bristol welcomes UNO representatives led by Dr Stoyan Gavrilovic to inspect a potential world capital site on Poppasquash. Officials note winter conditions and isolation yet proximity to Boston and Providence. Engineers will assess sea land and air transport possibilities, hoping for a favorable impression of Bristol and its harbor location.
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Poppasquash
UNO
Bristol
Stoyan Gavrilovic
Yugoslava
New England
Warren
Rotary
Boston
Providence
Local Notes Invite Reader Submissions and Visits
This column outlines courtesy in crediting guests and a community habit of sharing visits. It encourages readers to contribute items and highlights that people enjoy seeing mentions of their own and friends' activities in these columns.
Midweek Service And Rotary Talk In Town
The mid week service will be conducted at 8 30 tomorrow morning in Trinity Episcopal Chapel. Rev Joseph Gamson of Fall River Rotary Club will speak on Robert Burns at the Rotary Club meeting. The Rogers Free Library trustees hold their annual meeting Tuesday January 22 at 7 30 p.m. at Holmes House. The Women's Missionary Society reorganizes Pro Christo Society Thursday night at Guiteras House. Loyalty Chapter DeMolay installs H Sanford Town as sentinel Friday night in Riverside with Thomas Jansen preceptor and John Fetherston alternate.
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Trinity Episcopal Chapel
Joseph Gamson
Fall River Rotary Club
Rotary Club
Robert Burns
The
Rogers Free Library
Holmes House
Women’s Missionary Society of
First Congregational Church
Pro-Christo Society
Guiteras House
Riverside
H. Sanford
Thomas Jansen
John Fetherston
Lost hat exchanges bring James A. McKenna notice
A brown Adam hat size 7 3 8 with initials JAM was found in a locker on the State Armory’s second floor Saturday night. The finder seeks to return or exchange for Kennedy hat 71 8 in brown and asks James A. McKenna of Bristol 671 W to be contacted.
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State Armory
Kennedy
Brown
James A. McKenna
Bristol
First speaker set for Knights of Columbus meeting
A.Moren will speak at the Knights of Columbus regular meeting Wednesday night. Jr. CYO basketball of St. Elizabeth's shares first place with Our Lady of Loretta in the East Providence league and faces St. Francis Xavier tonight. WWII veterans meet Canon Parshley to discuss an church youth group. John R. Williams becomes acting chairman with Frederick Wilkinson as secretary. Mrs. Arthur Jordan learns Sgt John E. Jordan will return home soon after 28 months in the Pacific. her other son Arthur serves in Berlin.
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Cal Albert
A.moren
Knights of Columbus
St. Elizabeth’s
Our Lady of Loretta
Providence
St. Francis Xavier
Anthony R. Parshley
John R. Williams
Frederick E. Wilkinson
Arthur E. Jordan
Sgt
John E. Jordan
States
Pacific
Auxiliary Night At Kearney Post 6 Scene Of Court Whist
Kearney Post 6 American Legion held Auxiliary Night at the post home on Franklin Street with Court whist and a social hour. Prize winners included Mrs Laura Sousa and others. Next social planned February 21 a Valentine Washington party. Post reports 202 paid 1946 members and 265 total including 1945 members.
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Kearney
American Legion
Franklin Street
Laura Sousa
Josephine Ferrara
Ann Lombardi
Catherine Noronha
James T. Pierce
Albert Desmarais
Frederick W. Coggeshall
Manuel P Goulart
Wanted to Buy Postal Stamps and Bristol Memorabilia
Advertises purchase of United States and foreign stamps on envelopes and in collections or accumulations. Seeks printed items about Bristol including books prints pictures. Trades offered by A. A. Edmonds at 471 Hope Street Bristol 139.
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United States
Foreign
Bristol
A. A. Edmonds
Hope Street
Parochial School Sketches Prepared for Our Lady Mount Carmel
Rev. John Sorzano reports architect Michael Traficante has prepared initial sketches for the parish school to be built by Our Lady of Mount Carmel. Minor revisions will refine the exterior and upper floors before final plans. A parish food sale will support the building fund with new subscriptions totaling 11,450 dollars.
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John Sorzana
Our Lady of Mount Carmel
Michael Traficante
East Providence
Catholic Girls’ Organization
Father Sorzano
Matteo Castigliego
Angelo Marino
Gioachino Procopio
Frank Pirri
Angelo Pirri
Domenic Sansone
Joseph Negro
Lucia Nastiny
Nancy Leone
Francisco Balzano
Catherine Santo
Caroline Sicignano
Norman Servant
Peter Crefice
Rhode Island Soldier Helps Dispose of Japanese Ammunition
Private First Class Rudolph Sousa of Bristol, Rhode Island, with the 32d Infantry Division, aided in destroying over 1,000,000 rounds of Japanese small arms ammunition near Tachiarai Airfield Kyushu. The group ignited the cases after gathering them from dumps. Sousa, now a Corporal in the Medical Section of the 127th Infantry, serves under General Walter Krueger in the Sixth Army near Fukuoka Japan. His mother Mrs. Mary V Sousa resides at 93 Franklin Street, Bristol.
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Sixth Army
Fukuoka
Japan
32D
Red Arrow
Rudolph Sousa, Jr
Bristol
Rhode Island
Tachiarai
Kyushu Island
Sousa
Walter Krueger
Robert B. McBride, Jr
Mary V. Sousa
Franklin Street
127Th Infantry
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