Bristol Parent Teachers Association Meeting Highlights School Health Plan
Bristol Parent Teachers Association meeting in Colt High School auditorium featured Dr Bernardy praising educational films yet warning on their overuse and its effects. A plan to examine preschool children for physical defects before school opens was outlined by Dr William F Duffy and team with help from Mrs Mary Sanford and others.
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Ips
Teacchers Associetin
ARS
Bersnie
Bristol School
Bristol
Parent-Teachers’ Association
Colt High School
Glen Smith
Bernardy
Bernardo
Mary BK Sanford
Mars J Condon
Edith Bosworth
HD Gracott
First Congregational Church
A RK Parshtey
St Machael’s
Alonzo Vail
Mary Ceahot
Brisco
Ann Sd Wei Tai
School
TSR Ems
Bees
William F Duffy
Mary B Sanford
Martha Graham
Thyra Carlson
Rockwell House
Bristol Lions Club
Guardian’s Notice for Rhode Island Ward in Bristol 1948
The Probate Court of Bristol issues a guardianship appointment for Tan Prote and Busquale Prote of Par tervis New York as guardians of their estate in Rhode Island. All persons with claims against the ward must file with the Clerk of the Court within six months from the first advertisement date.
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Bristol
Rhode Island
New York
Sid Pristel
Sid Ward
John
Philip Sansone
Upkeep Rules for Cars From a Practical Driver
A practical guide urges careful buying choosing gasoline and oil Pennsylvania lubricants and regular maintenance. It advises washing every week changing oil every 800 miles and refilling transmission and differential as directed. A driver compares car care to human health stressing diet and routine servicing to prevent lemons.
First alphabet signs found in Syria by French expedition
A 4000-year-old Phoenician necropolis at Ras Shamra near Satakia yielded tablets bearing early alphabetic signs. An Alsatian archaeologist reported 18 inscribed pieces linking to a 26 or 27 sign alphabet, suggesting Aeolian Mycenaean ties. Salomon Reinach called the find extraordinary for ancient history studies.
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Koh Syhat
Yporta
Syria
Mediterranean
Ras-Shamra
Satakieh
Sadikiya
Salomon Reinach
Buried Gedi City Revealed Near Mombasa
Ruins of the ancient city Gedi, hidden for centuries in Kenyan jungle about 50 miles from Mombasa, are exposed. Professor Fleure of University College Wales dates it to Persian origins over six hundred years old with Arabic inscriptions in mosques and tombs. He urges archaeological study, noting abundant evidence and local legends of haunting spirits deterring intruders.
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Gedi
Mombasa
Fleure
University College of Wales
Kenya
British Association
Christmas Fireworks Across Cultures And Christmas Stockings
Fireworks have roots in Chinese Hindu traditions and were used in pagan winter solstice rites. The practice spread and influenced modern observances, with Italy and others still showing pagan elements in Christian celebrations. In the southern states Christmas Eve echoes July Fourth with displays and children’s firecrackers.
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Italy
Global quakes strike regions with weekly frequency
Time magazine notes earthquakes occur worldwide every half minute with about four powerful events yearly. It identifies two sensitive belts Alps Caucasus Himalaya and Pacific Rim plus occasional quakes in Italy California Japan Eastern North America where a damaging shake hits roughly every five years.
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Earth
Alps
Caucasus
Himalaya
Pacific
Italy
California
Japan
North America
Insurance Banquet Tale From Haley Fiske Stirring New York
Haley Fiske recounts at an insurance men banquet in New York a story of an American company expanding to eastern Europe and the blunt question from a rich peasant asking what he would receive if his farm burned that night. The manager replies with a fixed range of three to ten years as coverage.
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Haley Fiske
Insurance Fame
New York
Europe
California Man Sues Wife for Divorce Over Twenty Three Adjectives
A California man seeks a divorce after less than two years of marriage claiming his wife is sullen mean irritable morbid disagreeable nasty gruesome cool bitter jealous heckling picagunish loathsome insulting brazen miserly gluttonous temperamental selfish contemptuous inattentive uncivil and inconsiderate. The filing notes the diction choice implies more than plain unfriendly conduct.
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California
Roget
Playing Your Best at Work and Self-Respect
Editorial snippet urges pride in work and reciprocity from employers. It argues accepting a job entails giving full effort and performing to the best of one’s ability, with the expectation of mutual respect and success.
Bristol Tax Assessors Notice for 1930 Property Tax
In Bristol Rhode Island the Board of Tax Assessors announces a tax on real and personal property and ratable intangible property for 1930 totaling 378000 to 382000 dollars. Taxpayers must file true accounts of their estates with the Assessors by June 16 1930 and attend sessions June 17 18 and 19 to claim exemptions including veterans and widows. Executors guardians and trustees are notified to file for trust estates and returns may be obtained from the Town Clerk.
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Rhodé
John Taylor ‘Lewis, Jr
Fielding’ la Williams, Jr
Counse
Fielding L. Williams, Jr
Bristol
Bristol Phenix
Rhode Island
State of
Marion H B Allen
Walter S. Reynolds
Persod
Philippines
Board of Assessors
Burnside Memorial Building
Island
Board of Tax Assessors
Robert Newbold Philip Brady
Daniel G Coggeshall
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Akes
N.B.C. Cheese Fancies
Baker’s Vanilla Extract International Salt
Quick Seft Baker Coffee Red Circle
Pan Biscuits
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Silverbrook
Maine
del Monte
Libby
Campbell
ARES
A&p
Creat
Ge Ez Bro
Ruth A. Selden
John W Church
Probate Court
Oskytel HH
Obate Court
Sarah B
Manchester Industrial Trust Company
Manchester
Bristol Phoenix
John W. Church
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