Bristol Residents to Hear Excellent Symphonic Concert Friday
Bristol audience invited to an Rhode Island Symphony Orchestra performance under conductor Dr Wassili Lepg with contralto Amy Ward Durfee of Fall River as guest soloist. The program features Strauss Weber Haydn Rimsky Korsakov Verdi Tschaikovski. Tickets to be returned by Thursday for reserved seating. A portion of the hall will be free.
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Guiteras Memorial School
Rhode Island Symphony Orchestra
Wassili Lepg
Amy Ward Durfee
Fail River
Leps
Earier
Bristol
Strauss
Weber
Haydn
Rimsky-Korsakov
Verdi
Tschaikovsky
Miss Durfee
Mrs Cote to Head Convention Committee
Mrs Hope M. Cote of Kearney Post is named chairman of the American Legion Auxiliary convention committee for the depart mental gathering next year. The list includes past presidents and multiple appointees such as Mrs Anne Seymour for child welfare and Mrs Elizabeth Cart for rehabilitation with other roles in Americanism community service and finance.
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Hope M. Cote
Kearney Post
American Legion Auxiliary
Auxiliary
Cote
Anne Seymour
Hope Cote
Elizabeth Cart
Roselman Desilets
Sadie Almeida
E. Doris Bullock
Elizabeth Carr
Alice Coughlan
Catherine Pierce
Elizabeth Gifford
Mary Cuoma
Nora E Dwyer
Alice Dubuc
National Defence
Helen A. Condon
Samuel A Hall
Bristol Portuguese Independent
Swansea
Mass
Eight Civil Cases Heard Before Judge O'Donnell
Eight civil cases on yesterday morning's Fifth District docket were disposed of by Judge William T. O'Donnell. Cases included Stratford Acceptance Corp versus Melvina Fortin defaulted. Adelina Balzano versus Edward Perry unanswered, defaulted. Wardwell Lumber Co versus W. J. Parker continued one week with summary judgment motion also continued. Wardwell Lumber Co. Inc versus Matteo Castighega defaulted. Michelena Ruggiero versus Marietta Pelegrifio continued one week on agreement of counsel. August Alves versus Frank Arruda verdict for plaintiff $76.40 and costs. John Francis versus Stephen M. Alves answered, continued one week. Sarah V Luther versus Abraham Greenberg unanswered, continued three months.
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Fifth District Court
William T. O'Donnell
Stratford Acceptance Corp
Melvina Fortin
Alias
Assumps
Adelina Balzano
Edward Perry
Wardwell Lumber Co
Wardwell Lumber Co. Inc
Matteo Castighega
Michelena Ruggiero
Marietta Pelegrifio
August Alves
Frank Arruda
John Francis
Stephen M. Alves
Sarah
Luther
Abraham Greenberg
The Soldier and the Red Cross Armistice Day Tribute
A former soldier recalls Armistice Day memories of a missing buddy and the Red Cross救 rescue on the battlefield. He credits nurses and stretcher bearers for saving his friend and vows lifelong gratitude. The piece urges public support for American Red Cross membership on Armistice Day, highlighting trust in Red Cross relief in disasters and emergencies.
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Red Cross
Joe
American Red Cross
The
Bristol Board Approves Cost Memorial High School Refurbishment
The Bristol school committee approved a WPA project to refurbish Colt Memorial High School with a local share of 1212 and a federal cost of 4700. The work, overseen by Albert F E Tickell, will take about six months and employ 17 local WPA workers. The project includes monument restoration, window bronze cleaning, and marble repointing, with a maintenance cost of about 50 annually.
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Bristol
Colt Memorial High School
Albert FE. Tickell
WPA Historical
WPA
Burnside Memorial
Tickell
Theodora Barrows
Providence
Joan
United States
LeBaron C Colt
Len Colt
Boston
Mary King
Bay View Avenue
Donald
Guiteras Memorial Junior High School
Hector Bellevance
Arrangements Completed for Armistice Day in Bristol
The general arrangements committee set the Armistice Day events in Bristol with a 10 a.m. grand military firemen and civic parade. Festivities begin tonight with a Hotel Belvedere banquet headlined by Capt C Lawrence Barry USMC retired. A band concert from 7 to 9 p.m. and a grand ball at the Bristol Casino close the day.
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Bristol
General Arrangements Committee
Burnside Memorial
A. A Edmonds
Belvedere
C. Lawrence Barry
US. Marine Corps
Hyannis
Mass
Edmonds
Cup Defenders
U S Foreign Service Offers Career Path and Merit Based Entry
The U S Foreign Service invites qualified applicants through competitive exams, offering a varied career in consular or diplomatic service with salaries from 2500 to 10000 plus travel allowances. Retirement at 65 with a service-based pension follows merit based promotions. The Rogers Act of 1924 unified consular and diplomatic branches into one Foreign Service and shifted to professional recruitment.
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Consular Service
Foreign Service of
United States
Foreign Service exams sift 109 candidates for posts
Last May 727 sat written tests at the State Department. Last week 109 survived to face oral exams in Washington where judges rate dress poise speaking ability tact and honesty. About 30 will be kept and placed on a waiting list for vacancies after a three month course at the Foreign Service Officers Training School.
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State Department
Washington
Spain
Foreign Service Officers Training School
Women barred from exams urge men to enter service
The piece notes few women pass exams for the consular or diplomatic service and advises able young men to seek careers with Uncle Sam abroad. It then cites a Historic Bristol paragraph from 1865 about protests over bonfires on Nov 5 Guy Fawkes Day and reminds readers of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605.
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Uncle Sam
Bristol
the Phoenix
Guy Fawkes
England
House of Parliament
Gunpowder Plot Foiled Aims at Parliament Opening
The conspirators led by Fawkes planned to blow up the House of Parliament on the opening day attended by King James I. They rented spaces beside and beneath the chamber to plant 36 barrels of gunpowder. The plot was uncovered by a letter. Fawkes and others were executed. November 5 became a national holiday.
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Fawkes
House of Parliament
James I
Chamber of Parliament
Guy Fawkes
England
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Bristolians
State Department of Education
J. Winthrop DeWolf
Nathaniel G. Herreshoff
John R. Magee
William T. O’donnell
Carl W. Haffenreffer
Charles H. Liscomb
Joseph Hoyle
Daniel Weeden
Giuseppe Perroni
Emanuel Tacoletti
Fred Dunbar
R. S. Bosworth
George H. Baldwin
Mrs. Cote
Legion Auxiliary
Mary Peters
Mary Pierce
O'Donnell
Tcuesday
Janet Gaynor
Loretta Young
Constance Bennett
Simone Simon
Shirley
Frank Morgan
Victor Moore
Helen Broderick
Betty Furness
Georges Metaxa
RKC Radio
Jerome Kern
Dorothy Fields
George Stevens
Pandro S. Berman
Cartoon
LewAyres and
Joan Perry
Lowell Thomas Newsreel
Soldier and the Red Cross
Herbert D Graetz
Memorial High School
Gkuteras
Olver
Taft
Mason, Burton
Colt
Reynolds
Town Council
Teachers Association
Troop 2
Bristol Boy Scouts
Guiteras
Andrews Moriarty
B. W. Wall
Edwin S. Godfrey
High
State Streets
State Street
High Street
Staite Street
Union Street
Hope Street
Franklin Street
Burnside Memorial Building
Rockwell Park
Domenico Mascola
P.C
A. A. Edmonds
P C
Merton A Cheesman
Bristol Train of Artillery
243Rd Coast Artillery
A. A. Moren
Bristol Train of
Alfred M Merriman
Gordon R Brown
Luke White
Jorn Ezekovich
Bristol Boy Scout
George R Fish
Boy Scout
Norton Minderstein
Girl Scouts
John Ezekovich
Fred E Suzman
Daughters of the American Revolution
Charles O . Thompson
Clara L. Dimond
Gold Star Mothers Town Council
John W. Church
William H. Angevine
Amos S. Gorham
U. S. Foreign Service
Foreign Service
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