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Bristol Phoenix

Location

Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America

Date

Nov 08, 1946

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Armistice Day Observances Planned With Banquet and Game

The article details Armistice Day events including World War One Honor Roll dedication, a Kearney Post banquet, and Colt High versus Warren High football at Guiteras Field. Major Raoul Archambault Jr will speak at the Army Legion gathering at the Legion Home with a full program of prayers, musical selections, testimonials, and a memory service for fallen service members.

Kearney Post No. 6 American Legion Colt High Warren High Guiteras Field Legion Robert B Suzman Colt Senior High School M. Theresa Donovan Flanders Fields Bristol Rotary Club Vernon A. Gray Lucien Capone Roswell S Bosworth William H Sisson Frank A. Rounds Wm D Hall Geo R Fish John Perry Colt Senior High Charles R Couley First Congregational Church Chaplain Corps USNR Ralph T Church Charles E Burns Samuel A. Hall Robert B. Suzman Legion Home A. A. Edmonds Archambault William D. Hall Edward J Fitzgerald Raoul Archambault, Jr United States Marine Corps R. Archambeault Jr Marine Corps Kearney

World War One Honor Roll to be dedicated Monday

The permanent World War One Honor Roll, featuring 456 names, will be dedicated Monday at the Legion Home on Franklin Street. If weather permits, ceremonies will be on the lawn, otherwise in Legion Hall. The 6 by 3 foot bronze plaque sits on a Chelmsford granite boulder 7% feet high, 5 feet base, 2 feet thick, with 1⁄2 inch high letters.

Financial Town Charles R Cooley James T Pierce Lucien Capone Francis B Condon The Supreme Court of Rhode Island Judith Garvin Margaret Susan Wall Vernon A. Gray Charles C Curran Mr Pierce B. W Wall Secr Henry F. Serbst Frederick E Garvin Robert W. Nelson

Bristol Mfg Corp Keeps Production After Warehouse Fire

Maurice C Smith Jr announces Bristol Manufacturing Corp will maintain prior production levels despite a warehouse fire on Hope Street causing over a million dollars in damage. He credits cooperation from suppliers competitors and multiple fire departments with enabling continued operation and thanks the Red Cross and local agencies for aid.

Bristol Mfg. Corp Bristol Phoenix Hope Street Police Red Cross Melville Fire Department Warren Fire Department Portsmouth Fire Department U. S. Rubber Company Fire Department Bristol Manufacturing Corp Maurice C Smith, Jr United Rubber Workers of America CIO Bristol Morris Leahy Bernard McHugh Dennis Viera

Bristol Red Feather drive to aid children and servicemen

The Bristol Community Fund outlines a $19,383 Bristol share of a $1.5 million state Red Feather goal. The drive opens November 12 and supports youth programs by Boy Scouts Girl Scout Council and YMCA, nursing and psychiatry visits, foster care, and USO services for local servicemen.

Red Feather Bristol Bristol Community Fund USO R I Bristol Fund Boy Scouts Bristol Girl Scout Council Bristol Y.M.C.A

Boy Wins Bicycle For One Dollar And Seventy Fives

At a Atlanta public auction a 12 year old boy named Arlie Truelove bid his saved coins one dollar and seventy five cents for a red streamlined bicycle. After others bid higher for the remaining bikes he persisted until the final sale went to him for one dollar and seventy five cents amid silent crowd goodwill.

Atlanta Arlie Truelove Arlie Gabriel Heatter Mutual Heatter Mr. Heatter

Benevolent Society Hears Dr Harold Metzner

The Ladies Benevolent Society of St. Michael's Church met on Wednesday with Mrs. Henry Wood presiding. Dr Harold Metzner pastor of Trinity Union Methodist Church Providence spoke on The Missionary Activities of the Methodist Church. Plans advanced for the Christmas Sale December 5 with chairmen named and rummage sale November 13 by the Ivy Guild. After the meeting refreshments were served by hostesses.

Ladies Benevolent Society of St. Michael’s Church Henry Wood Harold Metzner Trinity Union Methodist Earl G Sturdevant Edward E. Bunn Ivy Guild Janet MacDougall Jessica MacDougall William Day Wesley A Armstrong Lilly Magee

Fruit as jive and a six year old’s quiz

A parent recalls a humorous clash of slang with his son six asking about words qizzl and hep both from different languages and a friend’s line red said yizzl have to go home now the boy’s slang lesson leaves the father puzzled and bemused.

N. Y Hepcat Red Yizzl

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A. Edmonds George R. Fish Ralph DeLeo Virgil Arruda Major Raoul Archambault, Jr West Warwick Rhode Island Raoul Archambault, Sr Alice Sally) Archambault West Warwick Senior High School Dickinson College Carlisle Pennsylvania Boston University Law School United States Third Marine Division Pawtuxet Valley Bougainville Solomon Islands Charles R. Cooley M. C. Smith Edward J. Fitzgerald Bristol District Nursing Association Child Guidance Clinic R.I Child Service A. J. Cronin Charles Coburn Cartoon the Forest Rangers Leo Gorcey Judy Clark Diljon With Eric von Stroheim Jackie Butch” Jenkins Joseph Palma Bradford Street Ralph Ralph, Jr Antoinette Palma Bristol Town N. Prov. Merchants Pat’s Texaco Filling Station Highway Dept Pop
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