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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1933
Page
4
Morning worship at 10 30 led by Rev Herman W Watsen from Providence with Words Spoken In Season. Church School at 11 45. J O Y Chapter C E meets in the vestry at 6 30. Evening service omitted.
Pastor Rev Herbert D Graete leads morning worship at 10 30 with communion and a sermon on Lead Us Not Into Temptation But Deliver Us From Evil as part of a Lord's Prayer series. Church School at noon led by Robert F Munro. Men’s Union at noon. Junior Christian Endeavor at 5 30 with Hazel Nettleton superintendent. Alpha Chapter Christian Endeavor at 6 30. Evening service at 7 30 titled The Dover Road.
Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church lists Lent Masses 7 15 AM weekdays and 7 PM 7 PM services on Wednesdays and Fridays plus 8 AM and 10 AM on Sundays for parishioners.
An explanation describes lightning as a sudden electric discharge creating extreme heat that drives air expansion to produce thunder. It notes light arrives first and thunder follows after a brief delay due to light traveling faster than sound.
Thirteen residents reached seventy years or more. John Adams lived to ninety, Thomas Jefferson eighty three, James Madison eighty five, James Monroe seventy three, John Quincy Adams eighty, Andrew Jackson seventy eight, Martin Van Buren seventy nine, John Tyler seventy one, Millard Fillmore seventy four, James Buchanan seventy seven, Rutherford B. Hayes seventy, Grover Cleveland seventy one, and William Howard Taft seventy two.
The text describes the banana as a large herbaceous plant of the Musa genus with about 20 tropical species. It notes fruit ripening on a plant rather than a tree and mentions Manila hemp as another plant in the same genus.
Rev Manuel J Barros pastor. Low Mass at 8 AM. High Mass at 10 AM. Evening service at 7 30 PM.
Masses are set for 7 30 AM 9 AM and 10 30 AM with Rev Thomas J Gillan presiding at the parish. The times indicate the regular Sunday schedule for services and community worship.
Rev A R Parshley rector announces First Sunday in Lent services with Holy Communion at 8 AM and 10 45 AM, Church School at 9 30 AM, Men's Bible Class at 12 PM, and an 8 PM lecture series on the Philosophy of Religion at the jfidrish house.
Rev W C Darby leads the State Street M E Church with a Bible School at 10:00 and Morning Worship at 11:00. An Evening service is scheduled for 7:00 PM.
On the first Sunday of Lent Trinity Church schedules Masses at 8 and 10:45 AM and a midday service at 12 PM. Evening prayers and benediction follow instruction at 7:30 PM.
A 16 battleship fleet including the Connecticut Illinois Culgoa Scorpion and Celtic sailed from Hampton Roads December 16 1907 on a world cruise under Roosevelt administration. Officers and crew numbered 12000. The voyage passed the Philippines China and Japan then via Suez returning February 22 totaling about 42227 miles.
The Oxford English Dictionary traces minced oaths such as drat to phrases like od rot meaning God rot. Other examples include rounds for God's wounds and gadzooks for God's hooks, tied to crucifixion terms used in England centuries ago.
The bureau of plant industry states coconuts drop when ripe with the lowest fruiting branches ripening first. It is hard to tell ripeness from the outside, and the only sure method is to open the fruit. For milk, gather just before the nut is ready to fall.
Housewife readers discover affordable winter menus with Uneeda Fish Timbales using salmon or tuna and crackers. The recipe blends white sauce mustard lemon juice and baking powder baked in a water bath for 25 minutes. Norma's Salmon Loaf similarly mixes salmon crackers onion parsley and lemon baked 30 to 46 minutes for 6 to 8 servings.
Lupe Velez recalls a perilous path from Mexico City to Hollywood. She describes spare pay in Mexico, breaks with managers, and persistence through borders and letters to reach stages and films with Hal Roach Douglas Fairbanks and United Artists.
Indigenous methods capture dingo pups and train them to hunt. Unlike wolves, dingoes remain loyal to their master and rarely show aggression. In packs they can wipe out flocks of sheep overnight.
A murimba described as a Latin American instrument akin to the xylophone is noted as producing xylophone like marimba music.
The ruby-throated hummingbird is described as the smallest American bird. It measures about three and four eighths inches in length and weighs only a few ounces.
The Pastime Theatre promotes The Animal Kingdom a Monday Tuesday photoplay about modern life with Ann Harding and Leslie Howard. The film, from a Philip Barry play, charges love mirrors animal instincts, with Myrna Loy and others in an RKO release directed by Edward Griffith.
In Bristol on March 2 1933 the probate court considers appointing a guardian for Ethel Tucker a minor daughter of John H Tucker and Norma Lee Tucker. The matter is set for March 20 1933 at 10 AM in the Probate Court Room with fourteen days of weekly notices to be published in Bristol Phoenix.
Public hearing scheduled by the Board of Review in Burnside Memorial Building on March 13 1933 at 730 p.m. to consider Raffael Di Donna’s request for a special permit to install a gasoline pump and to use a dwelling room at 54 Metacom avenue as a retail grocery store in a Residential District. John W Card secretary.
Warning notice for Bristol Town Meeting dated March 4 1933 calls electors to assemble March 13 1933 at 7 30 PM to vote on tax levies town debts state tax and school support. Includes allocations for highways bridges sewers schools police fire libraries and various departments with a motion to accept a gift from Robert D Andrews and other town business.
The C A bowling five upset the American Legion squad by taking two strings in the Y M C A league. Horner led the C A team with a three string total of 310.
The Mary of St Elizabeth church group sponsored a progressive whist and suecca party in Reynolds School auditorium on Tuesday evening. Sixty five tables were in play with Mrs Mary Xavier and Manuel Cardoza as suecca winners. Prizes for progressive whist went to a long list of winners. After cards, dancing to Alessio's Orchestra followed. Miss Alexandrina Fernandes led the arrangements with Rev Manuel Barros and others assisting. Members of Burnside Lodge attended initiation ceremonies in Burnside Lodge No 34 conducted by Warren Lodge.
The Probate Court of Bristol appoints a guardian of the person and estate for Thomas J Head of Whistoal and states bond qualification by law. Creditors must file claims in six months from the first advertisement with Clerk John V Church. Cornellis I Head is named guardian.
Charles Makowsky of Bristol has qualified as administrator of the Max Makowsky estate. Creditors must file claims in the clerk’s office by February 24 1938 as required by law. Clerk Sean J. Church signs the notice.
Ashes were blessed and distributed in St Michael s Church Grace Church Providence and Trinity Church as Catholic services were held. Rev Robert R Carmichael associate rector led Wednesday night rites at St Michael s. Parishioners from First Congregational First Baptist and State Street M E Churches prayed together in the latter parish with Rev William Bath Providence district superintendent delivering the sermon.
Funeral services were held Wednesday at 2 PM for Ethel Doris Moore who died Monday after a brief illness at Rhode Island Hospital Providence. The service took place at her home Franklin Street with Rev Anthony R Parshley officiating. Burial followed in North Cemetery with bearers Edward Beavis Francis Burke Arthur Tattrie John Tattrie Michael Bullock Samuel Rawson all from the town.
The town of Bristol announces district meetings on March 8 1933 to vote for Moderator Town Clerk Town Council Probate Judge Town Treasurer School Committee Assessor and Sewer Commissioners. Meetings held at Artillery Armory and Town Hall from 9 AM to 8 PM with positions each for two or four year terms. Officials Thomas E Johnson signs the notice.
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