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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1927
Page
2
The editorial argues advertising costs last year rose by 23500000, boosting the price of goods. It claims the public buys information and reads to learn where to buy, how to build, and how to live, making reading ads cheaper than other actions.
Members of last year's Rick's Bristolian football team report at 8 o'clock Monday night at the Ever Ready fire station. Head Gallagher, Marshall Ponte, Castriotta, Flynn Kelly Belmore, Leonard Gorham Moran Czar, Mahar and others who feel themselves fit to play 125 135 lb championship football will elect a captain and manager.
A farewell poem expresses memory and blessing as students part ways. It speaks of keeping memories in the heart and hoping for another meeting beyond time. The tone is reflective and somber with a religious blessing motif.
Local figures plan trips and visits including Mrs Martha Graham and Miss Ruth Graham leaving for three weeks in Detroit Mich. Colin Holm and Mrs Holm visit Fred Wilbur in town. Clambake hosted by Mt Hope Chapter No 23 of the Order of the Eastern Star draws 100 attendees at Ferriscliffe Farm. A collision on Ferry road injures no one but damages two cars. Rescue saves a drowning boy on the harbor. Local officials discuss a safety and education cleanup campaign.
St Albans Lodge No F & A M holds its annual outing on Saturday July 30 at the Newport County Farr Grounds in Portsmouth. The event features a large field with grand stand seating and dining tables in a large building, with a bake and deli stand by Charles de Durtee. Warren and Bristol lodges plan a ball game, families invited, grounds on the road to Newport, 26 minutes from Masonic Temple Bristol over the Short Line Ferry.
Former heavyweight king Jack Dempsey belts Jack Sharkey in the seventh round at Yankee Stadium. The crowd of 85,000 roared as Dempsey delivered a dramatic revival performance that thrilled spectators and revived talk of a return to boxing glory.
In York before 85,000 spectators NBC estimated about fifty million people listened in on the hook-up of 51 stations across the network.
A notice states that the yesterday planned gathering involving Charles A. MacDonald and Manuel Almeida of this town has been called off.
Oswald LeClair son of Eugene LeClair of Constitution street was shot in the right hand when a .22 rifle discharged while loading Tuesday afternoon. The accident crushed the third and fourth fingers and burned them. he, with William H. Remieres Jr., traveled by boat for help. A Naval Torpedo Station launch rescued them to Prudence Island where Dr. Siegel treated him, and Dr. DeWolf arranged X rays in Providence with no amputation expected unless complications arise. Remieres stayed with relatives on Prudence Island before returning home Wednesday.
James F O'Wolf and others transfer a house and lot on the south side of Church street to Dr. Harry J. LeClair. The agreement records ownership change and property details in the local real estate column.
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