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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1958
Page
2
The Phoenix salutes Rhode Island's oldest paper as it welcomes The New Howard Times from the Adult Correctional Institutions. Monthly issues invite inmate self expression, discuss rehabilitation, and seek a better public understanding.
From birth modern medicine wraps infants in protection. Silver nitrate guards eyes, vaccines for diphtheria pertussis and tetanus follow, smallpox immunization at three to four months, typhoid at six months, and since 1955 the polio vaccine funded by March of Dimes. Parents must vaccinate. delaying risks paralysis. Consult your doctor now.
Salvatore Maisano of this town was installed as treasurer of the Oil Dealers Association of Rhode Island at a Pawtucket Country Club meeting held Saturday night. Officers installed included James Olean of Providence as president Walter J. Hernandez of Providence as vice president Joseph Scungio of Cranston as secretary. Thomas J. Meehan, legislative assistant to U S Senator John Q Pastore, was the installing officer and principal speaker. Anthony Jackvony served as toastmaster. A giver and dance followed the installation.
Officials of the Bristol County Water Co report reservoirs are near full after a wetter season. Four company reservoirs are 99.4 percent full, with Shad Factory Anawan Swansea at 100 percent and Kickemuit near 92 percent. Industrial and domestic use has fallen, and Nayatt well field adds supply. Manager Charles P. Rogers notes better rainfall and rising Kickemuit levels versus two weeks ago. Meanwhile weather-related notes and an obituary fragment appear in the text.
Temperature today through Saturday will run 2 degrees below normal with warmth expected midweek and cooler end of week. Normal for this time is 72, with 63 low and 81 high. Precipitation about inch, showers in northern New England Rhode Island and Cape Cod today, showers and thunderstorms Thursday. High and low tide times and sunrises listed.
Letters show Mrs. Ellis Rowe thanking the Phoenix for reminders of her Bristol subscription and expressing lasting interest after 25 years away. The note accompanies invitations to future activities by America V Texeira and mentions two summer music events in Massachusetts and Rhode Island, including sponsors and venues.
On behalf of Battery C 243rd AAA Bn Rhode Island Army National Guard the unit extends thanks to the Bristol Phoenix for its excellent coverage of the 1958 Annual Field Training. The July 11 article and published pictures drew many compliments from families and townspeople. It was a pleasure to have your representative there.
The notice marks the established date 1837 and credits editor publisher R. S. Bosworth. It references second class mailing and indicates a one year subscription term, implying the period of readership access and pricing details in a historical newspaper context.
Old catalog notes a collector named Mr. Ritter preserving 19th and 18th century theater relics. Items include a trouble cape, cross over beard, a gunstick, a dandy stick, quizzing glass, theatrical bills, and a bead purse. The text explains stage tricks and audience norms of past melodramas and notes the provenance claim on a dandy stick once owned by Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree.
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