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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 17, 1935
Page
2
The Columbia Broadcasting System announces July 30 changes banning ads over 10 percent of evening time and 15 percent of daytime, restricting talk on unsuitable topics, and eliminating objectionable children's program content including bodily function descriptions. Public welfare and self regulation cited as industry leadership apart from government.
The Orchid Beauty Shoppe moves to 42 Bradford Street while a rummage sale is set for May 23 at the empty State Street store next to Falugo’s. Mite Society meets at Cole Street home with Mrs. Joseph Alger. Mr and Mrs George F. Park welcome a seven pound fourteen ounce son at Truesdale Hospital on May 18. Bristol Children’s Home board re elected at annual meeting with Dr Mercer presiding. Mrs Walls Howe elected presiding officer. Hope Circle hosts a whist fundraiser with seven tables. prizes awarded to Miss Margaret Callan, Miss Winifred C. Walsh, and Mrs Alice Sylvia. Beta Sigma Bradford Society meets at Trinity parish house. Mrs Wallace L. Mossop and Mrs Henry D. O’Wolf return from New York. Mr and Mrs William L. McKee return to Brithewold after visits to New York and Philadelphia.
May 23 Thursday Chop Suey Supper at First Baptist Church World Wide Guild. May 24 Junior Prom Cott High School. May 23 Rummage Sale Mt Hope Chapter O E S and Borg. May 25 Benefit Dance Portuguese American A A Academy Hall. June 5 Desert Bridge Trints Parish House Parish Aid Society. June 7 Annual Cotton Ball Bristol Portuguese American Women’s Civic League Bristol Casino. June 8 Country Fair Bristol Girl Scout Council. June 13 Strawberry Supper Mt Hope Chapter OES Doric Club. June 13 Strawberry Festival Masonic Temple Mt Hope Chapter OES Doric Club. June 14 Entertainment and Dance Grand Army Hall Collins Aikman Girls Club.
Mary, the Kid, and Tom head to New York on the 10 o clock train for the musical comedy 45 Minutes from Broadway staged by the BTA Entertainment Association on May 28 at the Guiteras Memorial junior high school auditorium. Theresa Donovan directs the production with tickets exchangeable at Hamu Dry Goods Store.
Two district champions were named in the Awashanks Herd marbles tournament on Bristol Common. Albert Jamiel 14 and Reynolds Borges 9 won titles in St Mary's and another district, with several finals to come as competition narrows to a town final next Monday.
Mail dispatch times listed as 7:15 and 9:45 A M 5 40 7 15 P M with 7 15 P M omitted Saturdays Sundays 4 50 P M holidays 5 40 P M Jan 1 and Feb 22 only Mail received times 6 20 7 10 A M 2 05 5 05 6 55 P M 6 55 P M train omitted Saturdays 8 05 A M 8 05 A M Jan 1 and Feb 22 only.
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