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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 15, 1929
Page
4
The government preserves the area below high water mark bounded by the road to the north and the channel to the south. A new automatic light replaces the old landmark on this plot. The Mount Hope bridge now passes above the Ferry Lighthouse to the east of the light.
The record shows balances and receipts for multiple Rhode Island funds including Gulteras School Building Fund, 1925 balances, various payments to vendors, bank interest, and transfers to General Account. Other accounts listed include 20th anniversary and industrial trust balances with detailed itemized disbursements and balances.
The annual meeting in Bradford Street’s Town Hall opens at 6 30 PM with tax paying voters admitted to seating and others to the balcony. The program includes reading of the call, town lands leasing resolutions, and council recommendations totaling 331 527 88 for public schools and various special appropriations including highways and sewer projects. Discussions likely on a sewage disposal plant and Fox Hill sewer installations.
The United States Government invites bids for the sale of the Bristol Ferry Lighthouse site and adjacent government land at Staten Island New York. Bids close at 2 p m Thursday April 4 at the Superintendent of Lighthouses office. The parcel includes a four room brick dwelling three sheds and surrounding land.
A historical account explains the Milky Way as the galaxy containing the universe, planets, asteroids, satellites, and comets. It notes the Milky Way appears as a pale white band across the sky, a perspective effect from the plane where many distant stars seem crowded.
A fragmented reminiscence about travels in Europe and Italy. The narrator recalls European impressions shaping American views and a domestic moment questioning whether a trip included Italy. The passage hints at memories of stylish stock and a family exchange about places visited.
A farmer near Saranac Lake credited his young son with diagnosing a dry well after experts failed. An electric pump stopped working and two technicians from Plattsburg and the factory could not locate the fault. The boy suggested checking the well itself. the father did so and found the well was dry.
In the East Indies a coconut palm sap sugar jaggery 3 is obtained by cutting the flower spathe. The sap yields about 15 percent sugar and is consumed locally. It is very impure but chemically similar to cane and beet sugars.
Providence office of the US Rubber Company bowlers defeated the N I R quintet 2 strings to 1. MacDonald led with a high single of 111 and a decisive third string win 474 to 465, as fans packed the Y alleys to cheer.
A new geyser has appeared in Yellowstone National Park, becoming one of the world’s largest. It erupts twice daily with water about 75 feet high for three hours. The crater measures around 100 by 120 feet and 8 feet deep, near the historic Excelsior geyser which stopped erupting in 1888.
A concise note defines co operation as uniting separate parts of a machine into a smooth working whole. It states cooperation is essential, without which little is accomplished in life and work.
The National India Rubber Co entertain ment committee hosted a well attended St Patrick's whist party in Rockwell Hall on Tuesday night. Decor by green and white crepe paper, candy sold by girls in white dresses, prizes awarded to J Swenson and others, with a central committee led by Edward A Currier Jr and multiple volunteers assisting in arrangements.
Patrons in large numbers attended a spaghetti and chicken salad supper hosted by the Sun day School teachers of the Church of Your Lady of Mt Carmel in the parish hall on Congregational Street. The event featured Irish airs performed by the Bible class under Miss Rose Fasano and a radio concert. Chefs included Mrs John B Troiano Mrs Felicite St Angelo Mrs Felix Langello Mrs John A Ruggiero and Mrs George Aben with Miss Helen Campagna as committee chair assisted by 17 teachers led by Mrs John Ruggiero.
The Washington Star quotes Hi Ho of Chinatown who warns that rising with no work makes the day feel like sleep walking and urges purposeful action to begin each day.
The United States Rubber Company announces the discontinuance of operations at Candee & Co in New Haven and at the Boston Rubber Shoe Co in Melrose. The Candee plant will shut April 6 while some Boston operations move to Malden. Weather and weak demand prompted the closures.
The text explains that Penny A peny is not the legal name for any US coin but a common nickname for the one cent piece. It notes the term dates to the early money system and has persisted since then.
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