Mount Hope Bridge Co Plans May Board Meeting in Providence
Executive Committee of Mount Hope Bridge Co. met in Providence to set the annual board meeting for May 15 at 2 PM in Hospital Trust Co. building room 1142. Directors will elect new members and decide on filling the vacancy from President C P Coleman’s death as bridge work advances toward a November opening.
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Providence
John W. Garrett
Ind
New York
Charles P Sisson
George H Newhall
Mount Hope Bridge Company
Hospital Trust Co Building
C P Coleman
Bridge Company
Won Artistic Honors Alfred Trudell Wins First Prize
Alfred 2 Trudell, 20, son of Mr and Mrs Edward Trudell, was awarded $50 first prize in a 20-student class for a charcoal drawing titled Male Model. The work will be exhibited at Memorial Hall, Rhode Island School of Design, later this month. He previously won a scholarship for a charcoal drawing of President Woofson exhibited here and at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts.
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Alfred 2. Trudell
Edward Trudall
Fast State Street
St . Mary’s Parochial School
Rhode Island School of Design
Memorial Hall
Nhat
Woifson
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Funeral of Cyrus H. Edson at North Cemetery
The funeral for Cyrus Henry Edson, longtime town president, was held Wednesday from his home at 195 High Street. Rev Dr RJ Chrystie led services for Edson who died early Monday in his 80th year as many friends and floral tributes attended. Interment followed at North Cemetery.
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Cyrus H. Edson
Cyrus Henry Edson
High Street
RJ Chrystie
State Street
Okdson
Bristol's Battery C in Regimental Review
Battery C 243d Coast Artillery will join a regimental review and fort defense demonstration at Cranston Street Armory under Governor Norman Case. The event includes units from several towns, a band concert, target practice trophies, service medals, and a two week fort Wright tour after Memorial Day.
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C. 243d
Coast Artillery
Norman S Case
Cranston Street
Providence
Westerly
Woonsocket
Tegi Ment
J FO Odatson
Cyril B.d Welly
Gale John J Collins Tormerts
Bristol
Col
Ll.d Wells
Gary Norman
Fort Wright Noy Oan
Os Onis
Cis
Yachts at Herreshoff Piers Suffer Ocean Damage
At Herreshoff yards a week ago a gale caused damage to multiple vessels. The Vara, Harold S Vanderbilt’s steel cruiser, sustained upper deck and stern damage, while the Sheerness sloop lost its main boom. Repairs begin immediately with new equipment ordered and crews pushing work to minimize delays. No injuries were reported.
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Herreshotf
Rose
TR Red
Tech
Harold So
Vander
Varas
Sheerness
Herse Shelfs
John Jo Rashob
Walmington
del Oter
United States Rubber Co
Vacht i
Marshall Shoppes
New York
Walkers Cove
Harold S Vanderbilt
Vara
Sloop Kalinga to undergo overhaul at Herreshoff shops
The sloop Kalinga, once W. Cameron Forbes’s and later sold to a Hartford yachtsman, was towed from Naushon Island to the Herreshoff yards for a complete overhaul on the new ways north of Resolute’s old slip. The racing schooner Advance, owned by Marion Eppley, is also at Herreshoff with masts stepped and rigging set.
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W. Cameron Forbes
Boston
Hartford
Naushon Island
Herreshoff
Yacht Advance
Marion Eppley
Yacht Receives New Main Mast After Newport Rest
The yacht will be fitted with a new main mast, with the advance laid up at Newport during the winter season.
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Advance
Newport
Town of Bristol weights and measures notice
Town of Bristol issues a formal notice to all who trade or act as public weighers to bring their weights measures and balances to the Sealer of Weights and Measures at 2 Chilton Street by May 13 1929 for sealing and adjustment under Chapter 221 section 11 of the Rhode Island General Laws 1923 and amendments.
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Bristol
Hie
Chilton Street
Rhode Island
Gennaro Defelice
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A. A. Edmonds and
F. M. Straight
Metacom Avenue
MacKenzie Avenue
R. 1
State Board of Soldiers’ Relief
A. A. Edmonds CO
Hope Street
TEL
Bristol, R. I
C.S. Sawyer CO
State St
C. S. Sawyer & Co
W. T. Remieres
Mgr
Mt. Hope Bridge Co
Glenwood Ranges
New England
Jane
Ourway
Narragansett Electric Company
The
New England Power Association
Belvedere Block
Bristol’s Battery
Norman S. Case
Town OF
F. Geo. Blanchard
New Industrial Trust
Charles Falugo
Associated Gas & Electric
Reginald Dimond
Anderson & Company
Industrial Trust Building
Gaspee
N Bros
Ccellent Corned
Resh
Bristol Kees Turner
Weber
Newman
Swift
Hal So
Aspara
Merida
Ferry Cliffe Farm
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