PENDITURES MOUNT OVER FIVE YEARS ACROSS RHODE ISLAND
The Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council reports in Your Tax Dollar that city and town expenditures rose from 23.5 million dollars in 1940 to 26.7 million in 1944 excluding relief debt and water, with Providence Pawtucket Cranston and Woonsocket contributing most of the increase.
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Rhode Island
Rhode Island Public Expenditure Council
Water Department
Providence
Pawtucket
Cranston
Woonsocket
Narragansett
Council
General Assembly
Ever Ready Company Holds Annual Banquet
The 21st annual Ever Ready Engine and Hose Company banquet drew a large crowd at the company hall. Bertram W. Wall acted as toast master and retired captain Anthony Perry received a past captain's badge and lamp as tributes. The event included a silent memorial for members who died in the war and afterward.
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Ever Ready Engine & Hose Company
Bertram W. Wall
Ever Readys
Anthony Perry
Wall
Gladys M. Brightman
Local Youth Hurt in Morning Collision near Colt Drive
Earl Maxmein 21 of 178 High Street sustained two deep forehead lacerations and a knee abrasion after his head struck a car windshield in a crash near Colt Drive. He received three stitches from Dr. William L. Serbst. Operator Reynold Borges 20 and three passengers were uninjured. Police Capt. Baker and officers investigated.
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Colt Drive
Earl Maxmein
High Street
Maxmein
Reynold Borges
Bourn Street
Rogers Free Library reports 1945 activity and growth
Librarian Esther Osterberg reports 1945 saw 29 398 books issued at Rogers Free Library with 399 new titles added. 2159 town residents hold borrowing cards, up 10 percent, as war service returns boost circulation. Officers re elected are Dimond, Howe, and McCaughey, with trustees Sherman, Bostworth, and Hodgdon.
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Rogers Free Library
Esther Osterberg
Library Board of Trustees
Holmes House
Frank M. Dimond
Wallis E. Howe
Robert A. McCaughey
Clinton T. Sherman
Roswell S. Bosworth
Fred F. Hodgdon
Warren to Speak on Lincoln at Bristol Meeting Friday
Dr. Louis A. Warren of Illinois will lecture at 8 pm Friday in Holmes House for the Bristol Historical Society on Abraham Lincoln. He has scheduled only three stops this tour at Brown University RI Historical Society and Bristol. The public is invited and members are urged to bring friends.
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Louis A. Warren
Ilinois
Bristol Historical Society
Holmes House
Warren
Brown University
RI Historical Society
Bristol Group
Dr Warren
Abraham Lincoln
Hi-Y Club Attends Brown State game in Bristol
The Bristol YMCA Hi Y Club will travel to Marvel gym tomorrow evening to see the Brown Rhode Island State game replacing the regular Monday meeting. Transportation is organized by Salvatore Massano Frank O Rene and Bert Velleca as guests assist with arrangements.
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Bristol Ymca
Marvel Gymnasium
Salvatore Massano
Frank O. Rene
Bert Velleca
Humorous Lecture In DeWolf Chapel Thursday Evening
Rev George E Lombard interim pastor of the First Congregational Church will give a humorous chalk talk titled Fungbone Jawbone Back bone in DeWolf Memorial Chapel Thursday at 8 oclock. Members and friends of the church are invited to attend. The event is under the auspices of the men s Union with John D Moore as president.
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George E. Lombard
First Congregational Church
DeWolf Memorial Chapel
Men’s Union of
John D. Moore
State Guard Company 6 honored for efficiency trophy banquet
The Major General Sherman Miles trophy for military proficiency was awarded to State Guard Company G, Rhode Island, at a Saturday ceremony at the State Armory. Capt. Manuel Morris Jr. accepted the large silver bowl from Adjutant Gen. John A. Murphy. More than 300 attendees included Lt. Col. Albert A Moren, Col. Thomas A. Hammond, and Lt. Col. Arthur Darcy as speakers and organizers.
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Sherman Miles
Company G
R . State Guard
Manuel Morris Jr
John A. Murphy
Rhode Island
Albert A Moren
Thomas A. Hammond
U. S. State Guard
Arthur Darcy
Joseph P
Kid Hope) Quartaro
Providence
U. & Rubber Co
Mary O'Neill
Anderson Twins
Joan
Jean
Anthony Fucido
Indian Love Expert To Speak At Rotary Club
Maurice Robbins of the At tleboro Museum will address the Rotary Club on Wednesday January 30 at 12 15 p m in the Masonic Building The subject Underground New England will cover tinted slides of excavations Robbins directs multiple archaeology projects across Massachusetts Rhode Island and New England including recent Ford Norton Faulkner Spring Jones Pond Taunton River and Dartmouth Society work he collaborates with Phillips Academy and others
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Rotary Club
Masonic
Mr. Robins
Rhode Island Archaeology Society
Jones Pond
East
Providence
Old Dartmouth Historical Society
Taunton River
New England
Bill Willis to perform on television at Gui Teras School
Bill Willis will appear at the Gui Teras School next Monday evening. He is noted as the first magician ever to give a television performance, among the many distinctions he has earned.
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Bill Williston
Guiteras
Washington Dance by Bristol Trails of Artillery
The Bristol Trails of Artillery will hold a Washington Dance on Thursday February 21 at the BTA Hall on State Street. The organizing committee includes Capt Louis Falco 1st Sgt Henry Pacheco T-Sgt John Pacheco Sgt Richard Ferrara and Col Henry A Hambrick ex officio.
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Bristol Trails of Artillery
Washington
BTA
State Street
Louis Falco
Henry Pacheco
John Pacheco
Richard Ferrara
Henry A. Hambrick
Bristol Drops from Consideration as UNO World Capital
The UNO Inspection Group chairman said Bristol is no longer a potential site for the world capital due to widespread dispossession risks for residents if the UNO were to take over the Bristol Portsmouth area.
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Bristol
UNO Inspection Group
UNO
Bristol-Portsmouth
Magician Williston headlines first TV broadcast from RCA room
In New York City at the RCA Building a renowned magician, Williston, staged the first televised magic performance. His national stature drew eager letters and calls, and Bristol YMCA sponsors bring this historic event to the community with Roswell S. Bosworth leading the arrangements.
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RCA
New York City
Williston
America
Ovf
Legeruemain
Bill
Game Postponed Indefinitely for Colt Memorial vs A I School
TheColt Memorial and A I School for the Deaf game tonight has been postponed indefinitely due to illness on the latter squad.
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Colt Memorial
A. I. School For the Deaf
Barbed Wire College at Fort Getty Teaches Democracy to German POWs
German prisoners at Fort Getty on Conanicut Island studied democracy under Army supervision in an unusual program nicknamed Barbed Wire College. Volunteers screened by officers and lie detectors trained in English law, German history, and civic government, culminating in open debates and practical governance lessons as they prepared for postwar reconstruction.
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Fort Getty
America
Conanicut Island
Narragansett Bay
Newport
Army School Center
Provost Marshall General's Office
United States
Barbed Wire College
T. W. Smith
Illinois
University of Chicago
Herr Professor
Fort Wetherill
Return of graduates to Germany tests democracy training
The first graduates return to Germany where they choose towns to work after discharge as prisoners of war. They may serve as policemen or military assistants, applying democracy-schooled lessons to prevent another Hitler. The Batbed Wire college faculty hedges on guaranteed outcomes.
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Germany
Eisenhower
War Department
Hitler
Batbed
ColAl Salmo
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J. Floyd Huestis
Paul A Herzig
John P. Marshall
Moses M. Moore
Henry S. Campbell
Frank Lewis
Oliver Lemaire
Harry Gray
Otto Alletag
John R. Magee
Daniel W Coggeshall
John Grabert
Fred Guevremont
RI State Firemen’s League
Anthony J. Ferrara
John W Church
Joseph H Farrell
Collins and Aikman Corporation
Albert T. Fusonie
Corporation
Francis Connell
U. S. Rubber Company
George Marshall
Collins and Aikman Company
Gene Ritchie
Willam L. Serbst
William S. Baker Jr
Henry J. Sylvia
Joseph Texeira
Anthony Carlone
the Waldorf
Gay Senorita
With Jinx Falkenburg
Warner Baxter
Hillary Brooke
Jerome Cowan
Robert Scott
Hedy Lamarr
Robert Walker
June Allyson
Her Highness and the Bellboy
Disney Cartoon
Coyote Rock
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DeWolf Chapel
State Guard Company
Miles
Adj
Murphy
Franklin R. Bradbury
William H Harkins
William Toomey
John Bradshaw
James H Francis
Richard K Duckworth
Edward Motherway
Herbert B Gray
Henry N. Dunbar
Elliot S. Mansfield
George E. Carroll
Hugh Geddes
Albert Osterlund
Joseph A. Trudell
John Russo
William Russo
Frank Domingos
Fletcher Kerkhoff
Joseph Manning
Hqrs
Robbins
Attleboro Museum, Inc
Phillips Academy At
Andover
Mass
Moorehead
Massachusetts Archaeology Society
Eastern States Archaeology Federation
Norton
Faulkner Spring
Camp Miles Standish
B.T.A
Washington Dance
U.N.O
MT. Carmel
Sacred Heart
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Adam Hat
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London
Hyde Park
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