Know New England Contest Opens For Prizes In 1937
Readers are invited to submit Know New England Contest answer forms from cooperating newspapers. Entry closes midnight September 11, 1937. Each entrant must mail forms with 10 cents to receive four Sam Chamberlain photogravure prints. Names and addresses must appear on the form. A dime with each entry is requested. Prizes total 2600 dollars with tiered awards and special state gifts for top finishers.
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Maniston
Lewchester
Manchester
Lewiston
Wek
Strry Howe
Know New England
New England Press Association
Beacon Street
Boston
Sam Chamberlain
New England Scene
Icture
Massachusetts
Theey
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encylopedia Britannica
Rae OH Wee Ae Che
Capitol
Parade Day Events Outline Reynolds School Bristol
In past years a parade along High street leads to Reynolds School with a noon program of patriotic exercises. John M Scanlon plans to speak. Rev Michael J Ryan will give invocation and benediction. Miss Janette McCaw will read the Declaration of Independence. The Star Spangled Banner will be sung by Miss Aida Connery. Camp-o-ree with hundreds of Boy Scouts follows, plus bugle and drum competition. Trophies and cash prizes will be awarded. A 4 pm baseball game features Olympians of the local YMCA vs Bristol Trampofery. An 8 pm vaudeville show by WPA performers caps the day, ending with a 10 pm pyrotechnic display on the Common.
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Reynolds School
High Street
John M Scanlon
Washington
Pd.c
Bristol
Michael J Ryan
St Mary's Church
Janette McCaw
Arthur
YOMCA
John Castriotta
Providence
Castriotta
Pearl Fire Works Company
Mrs Alice C Flannagan Rites Tomorrow for Bristol Athlete
Mrs Alice C Flannagan wife of Edward Flannagan and mother of Edward Patsy Flannagan dies suddenly at 156 Mount Hope Avenue in Bristol. In poor health five months she is mourned by a broad circle. Funeral services begin at 8:15 a m from the home then a 9 a m solemn high mass at St Marys Church. Burial follows in St Marys cemetery. A native of Leghowney County Donegal Ireland she was 73 and the daughter of Patrick and Sarah Murphy Cas.
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Aice
Cassidy) Flannagan
Edward Flannagan
Edward
Patsy) Flannagan
Bristol
Mount Hope Avenue
St .Mary's Church
St Mary’s Cemetery
Leghowney
County Donegal
Funeral notices for Lows Bo Hixson and Gertrude Marshall
Funeral services were held for Lows Bo Hixson 74 of 244 Hope Street died Sunday after a 10 week illness. He later worked as a night watchman at Horticultural Hall Boston and is survived by four sisters and a brother. Separate obituary notes the funeral of Miss Gertrude Marshall 21 at St Elizabeth's Church Bay View Avenue Plantersville with burial in St Mary's Cemetery Survivors include her parents Joseph and Gertrude Marshall a brother Joseph and sister Mary Souza.
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Hope Street
Anthons R. Parshley
St. Michael's Church
Burral
Mir Hixson
Horticultural Hall
Boston
Milford Mass
George S
Letty (Patterson) Hixson
Ats
Ashland
Hopedale
Mass
Raymond Taylor
Letty Dalrymple
Georgianna Severy
Alice Brown
Melvin Hixson
St. Elizabeths Church
Gertrude Marshall
Joseph and
Gertrude (Souza) Marshall
Bay View Avenue
Bristol, Mass
Marshall
Colt Memorial High School
St Elizabeth’s Church
Daughters of Mary
Joseph Marshall
Mary Souza
Seekonk
Marshall Funeral Held
Funeral services were held at the local church for mourners gathering to pay respects to the deceased, with friends and family in attendance and a brief service conducted by the pastor.
Home Run Breaks Tie for Bristol Walkovers Win
Spaghetti DelPiano delivered a clutch 11th inning homer to lift Eddie Lavey's Bristol Walkovers to a 5 4 win over Harrisville Trojans after DelPiano's ninth inning single tied the game at four. The win marks the Walkovers third straight victory in the Southern New England League.
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Spaghetti DelPiano
Eddie Lavey
Bristol
Trojans
Harrisville
New England
DelPiano
Rhode Island Sheriff Sale of Bristol Property
The Rhode Island Bristol sheriff's sale notice lists two parcels of land in Bristol tied to a 1936 judgment in favor of Alice I Donnelly executrix of Swansea against Elizabeth Rabbitt alias of Boston. It details parcel boundaries along Narragansett Bay, riparian rights, and a 20 foot right of way to a NY NH Hartford RR line. Sale set for June 30 1927 at 10 AM in Bristol County Court House.
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Warren
Bristol
Fifth Judicial District
Rhode Island
Alice I Donnelly
Swansea Mass
Elizabeth ( Rabbitt
Boston Mass
Narragansett Bay
Herman C. Humpus
Humpus
Margaret C. Little
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
Charles H. Field
Gibson Road
Charles S. Foster
Charles S Foster
Sheriff's Office
Bristol County Court House
Tyne
James F O'Leary
Peggy's Weekend Help And Household Duties
The passage describes Peggy assisting with breakfast in the morning and going to school. Weekends she is generally useful, with Saturday and Sunday mornings spent tidying the house and handling usual duties. Sunday afternoons and evenings and other evenings she helps as needed, while a separate note on Edna and her unemployed husband explains eventual full-time home duties.
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Peggy
Edna
Sheriff Sale Notice of Bristol Property in Rhode Island
Deputy Sheriff James F Cleary announces a Rhode Island sheriff sale under execution 97989 from Providence Superior Court. William R. Perry alias John Doe loses all rights to Bristol lot bounded by Constitution Street Wood Street and adjacent parcels. Sale set for July 14 1937 at 3 PM in Bristol Town, with costs and fees payable from the sale.
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Sheriff's Office
Warren
A. D
Superior Court
Holden
Providence
Rhode Island
Industrial Trust Company & Corporation
General Assembly
William R. Perry
John Doe
Bristol
Constitution Street
James Lawder
Frederick R. Hoard
Wood Street
R. Perry
Ieee
Tedr Machen
seOvetniber
Bristol County Court House
Sclack A
Mortgagee Sale of Bristol Rhode Island Property
Public auction to be held July 14 1937 at 11 AM on the premises in Bristol Rhode Island. Property on Coggeshall Avenue Narrows bounded 90 by 49 feet with right to access Coggeshall Platt and King avenues. subject to taxes and liquor restriction. Mortgagee William T O'Donnell notes bid rights and adjournments.
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Howard H Hawes
Edith B. Hawes
Clarence J. Brigham
Bristol
Rhode Island
County of
Coggeshall Avenue
Division Street
J Everett Coggeshall
Coggeshall
Platt Street
King Avenue
Narrows Road
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