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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1953
Page
2
The committee awarded the oil contract to the highest bidder after bids were opened in a closed session. Taxpayers face an extra 280 dollars this year, prompting questions about closed doors and the rationale behind favoring the top bid over the lowest, despite bids.
Bristol residents greet the Korea armistice with cautious relief as families of Sgt Anthony M. Capucci mourn his death and Pvt Bernard Almeida remains missing. The town recalls wartime sacrifices while warning that many questions about the ceasefire remain unsettled.
A marine architecture student from Webb Institute on Long Island will speak at the Bristol Rotary Club meeting tomorrow. The local events page also notes veterans, firemen, and Army Reserve duty involving Bristol residents and nearby communities.
Nettie Viola Robinson Manchester 58 wife of Daniel T Manchester died suddenly at 23 Catherine Street of natural causes. Funeral Thursday at Sansone Funeral Home 192 Wood Street with 10 AM services at St Michaels Church officiated by Canon Davis. Burial at North Cemetery. Also mentions Eva Elder and Maria A Pivin obituaries with burial details in Swan Point and St John's Cemeteries.
Military funeral services for Joseph P Cunha 55 of 37 St Elizabeth Street followed his death Sunday night after a heart attack in Bristol. Burial details not yet announced.
A Bristol resident Cunha formerly of Wardwell's Boatyard died after a medical event at Davis Park Veterans Hospital Providence The funeral service with high requiem mass will be held at St Elizabeth Church following services at J E Connors Funeral Home Bristol born October 19 1897 he was a World War II veteran and member of Defiance Hose Company Bristol Volunteer Firemen Veterans Association and St Elizabeths Church He leaves his mother a sister and a nephew with burial in St Mary's Cemetery
The 64 year old John F. Morin of Southworth Avenue was buried after funeral rites at Highland Memorial Park. Canon Daniel K. Davis of St. Michael's Church officiated. Survivors include wife Sophie Loomis Morin and his father. Morin was born January 1 1885 in Phenix and worked as a ship mechanic retiring in 1945 from Walsh Kaiser yards in Edgewood. Funeral home was Joe Connors on State Street.
The family recalls biannual attic clearings led by mother who inventories treasured items from old stamps to Civil War uniforms. Children await patches and attic excursions with permission and awe while father maintains the shed after his cleanups. The memory centers on mother contentedly surveying the growing stock of heirlooms.
The piece reflects on the loss of attic space in older New England communities as ranch and one and a half story homes grow. It recalls how mothers would question where families would store accumulated belongings and suggests attics are missed once gone.
The Zoning Board of Review will meet at 7 30 p m on Thursday August 13 1953 in the Council Chambers Burnside Memorial Building to hear Henry J Andrews of 18 Goulart Avenue Bristol R I on an exception to the Zoning Ordinance under Section 19B to permit a 7 by 9 addition to an existing building at 41 De Wolfe Avenue Assessors Flat 33 Lot 100 in Residential District D By Order Secretary Norman J Vermette
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