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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 16, 1944
Page
2
Residents praise spring in Bristol as magnolias fade and lilacs bloom while wartime strains linger. The town anticipates Memorial Day activities, baseball delays, and a future return home with D-Day awaited as a milestone toward peace.
Holy Communion will be celebrated Thursday at St Michael's Church on Ascension Day at 10 o'clock. Miss Evelin Bache will speak at a Fortnightly Club luncheon at Mrs Mapes on The Early Schools of Bristol. Countryside Garden Club meets at Mrs Doran's on Hope Street to elect officers and discuss business. Miss Kathleen Martin, Bristol High School graduate and nurse trainee, awarded a Phoenix Journal Canteen subscription. Cpl Lawrence Armallotto of the Army Air Forces on furlough with his parents in Bristol. he is stationed in Alberta. Charles Young, GM 1-c, on 12 day furlough with his parents, has returned to base. A son Ronald was born to Pvt and Mrs Manuel Mello of 11 Prospect Street, weighed seven pounds. Pvt Mello entered service April 28 and is at Camp Wheeler, Ga.
The Secretary of State will speak at tomorrow's noon Rotary Club meeting. Lt. George Martin of the U.S. Coast Guard, currently in New York, was in town today on business.
Definite formation of the Senior Baseball League of the YMCA will occur Thursday at 7 pm as team representatives meet. The board of governors will be chosen and a schedule drawn. The league plans to start June 3 with four teams, possibly six, including two from U S Rubber, URWA at Bristol Manufacturing, and Collins and Aikman.
Podol, a greaseless white ointment, provides cooling relief for tender feet. Salespeople and factory workers report relief from sore burning skin, with Buffingtons Pharmacy and Hope Drug Co. carrying it along with other drug stores.
Trade ad notes $10.00 sewing machines in any condition with supplies parts and motors offered by E Cuffe at 258 Franklin Street Fall River Massachusetts.
Itemized notices include a large upright piano for sale in a mahogany case with request to apply to Box A, a 1933 Dodge Coupe advertised for $50, and a 1937 two door coach with new tires and battery viewable at 177 Mt Hope Avenue. Also listed are plants for sale May 20 at 19 Garfield Ave, plowing services, carpentry work inquiries, and contact names Manuel C Carvalho 177 Bay View Avenue and Joe Estrala 1236 Hope Steel 218.
Advertising copy offering custom posture abdominal surgical and breast supports. Includes note of free figure study and contact details for Mrs. Wm. LeClair at 875 Hope 81 and telephone 165 MK for appointments.
Professional window cleaning for house, office, and factory windows. Based in Warren contact 1459-W for service estimates and scheduling.
Corporal August F Benevides of 2 Coggesshall Avenue serves in a B 24 Liberator Group based in England. The unit under Colonel Arthur J Pierce earned praise from Lt General James L Doolittle for its first mission over Berlin, the citys worst daylight raid of the war, marking the group as new Eighth Air Force operatives. The General commended the crews skill and efficiency and noted the mission was the longest first mission in the theater.
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