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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1929
Page
2
Eight people aged 17 to 56 joined an Americanization evening school at Colt Memorial High School. Officials expect more to enroll next week as Bristol’s school department provides the free program. The course requires only a couple of hours nightly and aims to teach reading writing and speaking English to all willing, with patient teachers ready to help.
The Armistice Day Committee will meet tomorrow at 8 PM in the Hotel Belvedere. St Marys Church hosts a month’s mind mass for the late Miss Joanna Tobin. St Marys also held a requiem for Miss Janet OConnor. The First Congregational Church Women’s Missionary Society meets at 2:30 PM in Memorial Chapel.
Fragmentary classified notice seeks female help for home care and domestic chores. Mentions a full line of duties and office on rotation, but many words are garbled. Readable items include care tasks and general employment offer.
A black ballfold purse vanished Friday evening September 18 near Wood Street and Bradford Street. The owner asks any finder to return it to the Pema Office.
Unclear readable text fragment mentions fur repair and a person named Ted at an address 718 Hope St. No coherent event or outcome evident.
An unclear fragment references Arantee and a pen in a tale about a caste type institute. Details are unreadable but suggest a literary or historical note involving names and places from a partial page.
Furnished or unfurnished 4 room apartment available in Bristol. Includes garage and modern conveniences. Contact Mrs Tomas at 3 a Street for details and pricing.
Advertises a tenement of nine rooms with electricity gas and other modern conveniences at 222 Wood Street Bristol with sun rooms. Also three rooms for sale at 6 percent creation Street and two tenements at 37 State Street. Describes furniture and stores at 265 Hopest Store and 2 tenements at 37 State Street with household goods for sale at 146 High Street.
Attractive Hope street four room apartment for rent with all improvements. Apply Wm H Kell Inc at 361 Hope Street.
Neatly furnished rooms with modern conveniences offered at reasonable rates by Mrs. W T Remieres located at 9 Church street.
For sale a new bungalow on Peck avenue second lot from Hope Street. Six rooms with oak floors and American Radiator area equipment. All modern home features advertised with telephone contact.
Lucius A. Whipple principal speaker at the Lions Club gathering in the Hotel Belvedere spoke on the aims objects and principles of Lions Clubs. The program included music and a Mt Hope Bridge work film by Robert E Lanphear with about 40 attendees from Newport Warren and Pawtucket. Sidney Makowsky led piano and Charles Morgan conducted vocal selections with a quartet. George H Baldwin reported on district representatives meeting in New London Conn last week.
Electricians work on the Mt Hope Bridge stringing cables to outline the structure with lights for a long range view. The list of selected workers includes George Lo Drawn Je Bertram F Bullock Henry S Wright Herbert Lo Springer Andrew Jo Campbell and 4A Frizzell. Miss Louise Brechin serves as stenographer and typist for the bridge project.
The readable fragments show a cumbersome ramble about a nephew and an uncle, referencing graduation, a tithe, and a vague incident at a tailgate. Names and clear facts are missing, leaving a garbled, non-cohesive record with no verifiable event or context.
On Hope Street and nearby streets a charity effort by Mrs. June Rockwell and associates saw the Laeie Sid Soest organization operate Hope Street facilities and volunteers including Miss Sara Bosworth, Joseph Oliver, and Georges Dion. A machine pushed against former Town Council President Henry W W Peterson’s auto near Namquit Mill. little damage occurred to the vehicles.
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