Bristol observes solemn Memorial Day with wide turnout
Bristol marks Memorial Day with a large parade and tributes to veterans from Civil War to World War II era. Veterans from multiple groups, Scouts, and local units participate in ceremonies at North Cemetery and the Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument.
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Ezra Dixon
Bristol
Europe
243Rd Coast Artillery
Bristol Train of Artillery
Sons of Union
Babbitt Post
North Cemetery
Soldiers’ and Sailors
Burnside Memorial
Boy Scout
Vernon A. Gray
Grand Army Hall
Hope Street
Marshal Gray
Anthony J. Ferrara
Edward M. Kavanagh
L. H. Callan
B. W. Wall
Arthur W. Barrett
Anthony R Parshley
Francis P. Slade
John Almeida
James T. Pierce
Kearney
William J. Bottomley
Sons of the American Legion
Loretta Morin
Girl Scouts
Eugle
A A. Moren
Boy Scouts
George R. Fish
Scoumaster
Michael Ascoli
John daPonte
William F Head
Irving Porter
Erasmo Mancini
Bristol Girl Scout
Goldenrod
William Pinch
Marigold
Stannard B. Sylvia
Columbine
Wesley Armstrong
Mariner
Vigilant
Edwin A. Godfrey
Kearney Post
A. Elmer McNamara
Daughters of the American Revolution
Bes
Arthur W. Burdon
Soldiers and Sailors Monument
Mary C. DuPont
Colt Senior
Burdon
Alice Bateman Almy
Battery C
Mr. Burdon
Brown University Rifle Club elects new officers
Norman Hibbert is named range officer. Robert L Keedick 41 becomes president and Leonard H Chatel 42 is secretary. Howell C Wagner 42 is treasurer. Keedick praises Hibbert as a top shot with Rhode Island Tyro title and top New England rifle ranks, plus two university records.
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Brown University Rifle Club
Robert L. Keedick
Lee Keedick
Old Redding Road
Westport
Laurence E. Wagner
Sea View Avenue
Edgewood
Cranston High School
Norman L. Hibbert
George Hibbert
Hope Street
Colt Memorial High School
Keedick
Rhode Island
Red Cross War Relief Fund Appeals in Bristol
Advertisement for Red Cross War Relief Fund urging donations to the Bristol Branch American Red Cross. States checks should be payable to that branch and mentions the Childrens Fund for Child Refugees in War Torn Europe. Also references Candidates Class of the G. F. S. of St. Michaels Church with a 1.00 dollar contribution.
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Bristol
American Red Cross
Childrens Fund For Child
Europe
Anderson May Be New Chairman of Democratic Group
Former Bristol fire chief Robert J. Anderson may become chairman of the Bristol Democratic town committee if Anthony J. Nunes resigns. Other candidates withdrew to back harmony, ending a long split between Paull and Nunes factions that fueled past council battles over liquor closing laws.
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Robert J. Anderson
Anthony J. Nunes
Bristol
Democratic Town Committee
Anderson
James J. Walsh
James T. Pierce
Thomas Byrnes
Prescott B Paull
Nunes
Paull
Bristol to host bugle drum corps contest on Independence Day
Bristol officials announce a two day July 3 4 program led by Committee Mails Competition Invitations director George F Fish for a bugle and drum corps contest on Bristol Common with nine classes including drum and bugle and fife and drum. Registrations close at 10 30 a m on Independence Day with a one mile parade route and a grand cash award.
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Europe
George R. Fish
Bristol
Massachusetts
Connecticut
Bristol Boy Scout Bugle and Drum Corps
Rhode Island Bugle and Drum Corps Association
Bristol Common
Fish
M. Theresa Donovan
Bertram W. Wall
James J. Velleca
Fred Atkinson
Arthur W. Barrett
Sadie Almeida
Nora FE. Dwyer
James F. Meiggs
Sorority Plans Pledgees Dinner at Local Home
Alpha Delta Epsilon sorority advanced plans for a pledgees dinner at the home of Mrs. Leah Eisenstadt on Hope Street. A committee led by Rhoda Levy was named to arrange the date and location, with Rose Tufaro la Eva Brown Alma Marino and Lucy Casano as members.
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Alpha Delta Epsilon
Leah Eisenstadt
Hope Street
Rhoda Levy
Rose Tufarola
Eva Brown
Alma Marino
Lucy Casano
Red Cross urged to meet Bristol relief quota
Bristol Red Cross chairman Rev A R Parshley calls for immediate local donations to reach a $1,500 goal for war relief. He notes only 22 of 12,000 residents contributed and urges prompt gifts to aid European refugees and Red Cross children’s fund as national leaders push to exceed $10 million minimum.
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A. R. Parshley
American Red Cross
Bristol
Parshley
Norman H. Davis
France
Former Bristol Police Chief Dwyer Dies at 81
Thomas Ryan Dwyer longtime Bristol officer and last surviving member of the 1878 Rhode Island militia dies at his home age 81 He served as chief from 1914 to 1920 and mentored by a lifetime in local law enforcement surviving are three sons two daughters and nine grandchildren funeral Monday at St Marys Church with burial in St Marys Cemetery
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Thomas Ryan Dwyer
Bristol
Collins Street
Mr Dwyer
Rhode Island
Dwyer
Thomas A Dwyer
Bureau of Criminal Identification
Detroit
Mich
John H Morrissey
Old
National India Rubber Company
Keds
Chief Dwyer
State Street
Thames
Hope Street
Court Street
Ber
William R. Trotter
Philip Brady
Tommy White
Richmond Talbot
Ramon Gutter
William
Bridget
Ryan) Dwyer
Old Bristol High School
Robert G Andrews
Thomas
William T Dwyer
John J. Dwyer
Riverside
Margaret M
Nora E. Dwyer
St Mary’s Church
St. Mary’s Cemetery
Second Annual Charity Dance by Italian Socialites at Bristol Casino
Socialites sponsor a Monday night charity dinner dance at the Bristol Casino to benefit the club’s tonsil clinic. Grand march led by former Rep Pasquale Pagnano and Mrs Nancy Vitiello, followed by Miss Mary Salzano with Domenic Vitiello. Balloons will float after midnight as Alfonso Ruggiero directs the grand march.
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Pasquale Pagnano
Nancy Vitiello
Mary Salzano
Martha de Mezza
Laura Voccio
Fannie DeFelice
Mary Aiello
Frances Holmes
Josephine Calvino
Vasta L. Ruggiero
Helen Pagnano
Grace Ciciolo
Jeanette Salzano
Rose Corriera
Alfonso Ruggiero
Catherine Aiello
Beatrice Riccio
Madaline Cortellessa
Marion Sousa
Anna Guarini
Minnie Nappi
Ambulance Driver Horace Fuller Describes Amiens Evacuation
Horace W Fuller an American Field Service ambulance driver in France recounts the Amiens evacuation from May 22 as German bombers attacked refugees and hospitals. He recalls loading wounded women and children under fire and urges publication of his letter.
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Horace W Fuller
France
Horace Fuller
Paris
Amiens
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Norman Hibbert
B. U. Rifle Club
Red Cross War Relief Fund
John R. Edwards
Carl W. Haffenreffer
Riley ‘E. Lamson
Edward P
Church, Jr
Mary E ‘ Spooner
Winthrop DeWolf
Ruth Graham Sees
He “Aban
Buck Benny
Fred Allen
Golden West
Jack Benny
Ellen Drew
Andy Devine
Phil Harris
Virginia Dale
Lillian Cornell
Dennis Day
Carmichael Wews
Reel Cartoon Comedy
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Stan Laurel and
Oliver Hardy
Lowell Thomas News
Notre Dame
March OF
Democratic Group
RED Cross
United States
Horace W. Fuller
New York Times
Providence Evening Bulletin
Elizabeth Adams
Providence
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