Madeira Island Observance to Celebrate Feast Day in Town
Madeira Island residents planned a weekend observance with decorations on Wood Street and Church services at St Elizabeth's. The event featured a Friday July 27 opening with a 3 pm double band concert by the Portuguese Independent Band and Colonial Band of Central Falls, continuing late into the night. Sunday July 28 includes a solemn high mass at St Elizabeth's and a parade from the church to Franklin and High streets and Bay View avenue, ending with concerts through 11 pm.
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Madeira Island
Azores
Wood Street
Franklin Street
St. Elizabeth’s Church
United States
Portugal
Central Falls
St Elizabeth's Church
Francisco G Vieira
Madeira Colony
High Street
High Stret
Bay View Avenue
Tablet Dedicated In St Michael's At Service Held Sunday Afternoon
Bronze tablet presented by Prof Wilfred H Munro commemorates St Michael's parish service by William Munro and five descendants 1674 to 1864. Dedication at St Michael's Church with Rev Anthony R Parshley, Prof Munro, his relatives, and church choir. Inscription honors the Munro vestry members across generations.
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W. H. Munro
William Munro
St Michael’s Church
Wilfred H. Munro
St. Michael's
Munro
Anthony R. Parshley
New Express Agent Named for Muilsbury Local Office
N Vance Gay, nine years railway express agent at Muils bury Massachusetts, is appointed local agent of the American Railway Express Co with an office at the Franklin street station. Gay formerly lived here and attended Colt high school, later worked briefly for the National India Rubber Co. He is married and will move to Bristol in late next month taking residence on Hope street Bristol Neck.
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N Vance Gay
Railway Express
Muilsbury
Mass
American Railway Express Co
Franklin Street
Regatta of Bristol Yacht Club Aboard Aug 3
The Bristol Yacht Club announces its annual regatta on Saturday Aug 3 with 11 classes including New York Yacht Club schooners and Conanicut Triange. Starts at 2:30 pm from the clubhouse, four race courses, prizes including the Senator Gerry cup, and open house for visiting yachtsmen with lunch and refreshments.
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Bristol Yacht Club
Charles Warren Lippitt
Francois L. deWolf
Willam H. Angevine
Woodbury S Pelleys
Charles B Rockwell, Jr
Alfred G. B. Steele
New York Yacht Club
Conanicut Yacht Club
Conanicut Yacht Club Marconi
Club House
Mount Tombuoy
Prudence Island
Hog Island
Musselbed Light
Poppasquash Point
Middle Ground
Bristol Harbor
Regatta Committee
Chass P
Senator Gerry
Amoret
Installing Sewer and Gas Pipes on Oliver Street
Workmen are laying sewer and gas pipes on Oliver street in anticipation of a new roadway by the town highways department. Pipes are being installed to street lines of vacant lots to prevent later tearing up of the road and depressions from future excavations.
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Oliver Street
Boy Scouts in Camp at Wangoog Rockville RI
Bristo Troop Box Scouts of America members departed Saturday for Camp Wangoog at Rockville Rhode Island for a two week encampment. Visiting days are Sunday and Wednesday with many parents and friends expected to visit.
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Bristol Troop
Box Scouts of America
Greater Providence
Corer
Rockville
Fresh Air Fund brings Bristol children to two week visits
The New York Herald Tribune sponsors a Fresh Air Fund program aiding tenement children from New York City. Mrs Hope Cote and Miss Helen Condon coordinate with Bristol families for two weeks starting August 12.
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Legion Auxiliary
New York Tribune Fresh Air Fund
New York City
The
New York Herald Tribune
New York
Hope Cote
Helen Condon
Kearney Post
American Legion
Tribune Fresh Air Fund
Bristol
Social Dance For Tennis Fund Set In Bristol
A K of C Bristol Council event at the K of Home on State Street Friday night raises funds for a new tennis court. Eddie LeClerc's Bristolians provide the music for the affair organized by the tennis committee.
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State Street
Tennis Committee of
Bristol Council
Knights of Columbus
Eddie LeClerc
Bristolians
Fireworks Close Bristol Italian Feast Celebration
The Bristol Italian celebration of Our Lady of Mt Carmel ends with a night fireworks show described as among the best seen locally. Crowds of up to 20 000 watched from Bay View avenue as pieces burst in gold silver and multicolor displays on Gen L H Callan’s lots. The weekend featured parades band concerts illuminations and church services with the event dubbed the Bristol Italian Celebration.
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Our Lady of Mt Carmel
Gen. L. H. Callan
Bay View Avenue
Bristol
Bristol Community Band
Ferdinand Iasiello
Banda Napoli
Boston
Appointment of Rev. Eugene V. Hughes as head of Pawtucket parish
Rev. Eugene V. Hughes, son of Mr and Mrs Owen Hughes of Franklin street, was chosen by Rt. Rev. Bishop William A. Hickey to establish a new parish in Pawtucket Rhode Island. He began duties yesterday after serving 19 years as curate at St. Joseph's parish and will organize a new parish in Beverage Hill with a yet undisclosed name and future church site under consideration.
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Pawtucket
Eugene V. Hughes
Owen Hughes
Franklin Street
William A. Hickey
Rhode Island
Hughes
St. Joseph’s
St. Joseph's Parish
Fr. Hughes
Beverage Hill
Fall River
Bristol
Holy Cross College
Mali
Forty Hours Devotion Ends at St Marys Church
Large congregations attended the Forty Hours Devotion at St Marys Church. The service began at 10 30 mass Sunday forenoon and continued through that afternoon and evening and through yesterday afternoon and last evening with many parishioners visiting the church to participate.
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St. Mary’s Church
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St. Michael’s
Bennett Munro
Adward Munro
John Bennett Munro
Wilfred Harold Munro
Eack
St. Michaels Church
NEW Express
Cranston ST
Providence, R. I
Gaspee
Pastime Theatre
Edmund Lowe
Mary Duncan
Warner Baxter
Pathe Jews
Richard DIX
Richard Bennett
Doris Kenyon
Gehorge
M Cohan
Fancy Baggage
Audrey Ferriss
Fox
Gordon V-Line
BOY Scouts
K. O. C. Social
Victor Radio & Radio-Phonograph
Capone’s
Tel
Victor Cleansing
Warren
Lillian T. Wilson
Hope Street
Nancy
Main St
Fabio Decristofaro
R. I
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