Pigeons, Diets, and Pigs: A Wodehouse Satire
In America Day By Day P G Wodehouse mocks urban life from New York pigeons to Father’s Day gifts. He notes a hawklike pigeon at Howard Johnson’s and jokes about diets, Hollywood fads, and a Nebraska pig study that bourbon makes pigs cheerful. Paradise Nebraska pigs drink eight servings daily.
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Punch
America
P G Wodehouse
New York
Howard Johnson
Broadway
Paradise
Nebraska
John B. Fosdyke
Wickford Harbor Transforms With Half Million Private Investment
Wickford Harbor gains a new look as the Wickford Shipyard expands to host over 150 private yachts with 25 more slips planned for next year. The marina, purchased by Ideal Windlass Corp after hurricane damage, will create about 27 local jobs and boost Wickford merchants as Bristol and Congress back harbor development efforts.
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Wickford
New England
Bristol
Harbor Development Commission
Ideal Windlass Corp
Lincoln Vaughn
Congress
John Fogarty
There's A Storehouse of Antiquities at Jimmy Duffy's Store
A Bristol treasurehouse of early 1920s color postcard scenes is sold at Jim Duffy's confectionery store at 3 for 5 cents. Out-of-towners buy most, locals overlook the outdated cards. The collection shows Bristol’s changing look over 35 years with scenes like the old Town Hall, Trinity Church, the Ferryboat Bristol, Sagamore, and the pre Mount Hope lighthouse.
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Bristol Antiquities
Jim Duffy
Bristol
E. E. Parsons
A. S. Thomas
Jim
Parsons
Ball Point Pens Now In Use At Post Office Bristol
Post Office in Bristol adopts new green ball point pens on beaded chains as part of a departmental program to equip all offices. Postmaster Daniel W. Coggeshall notes the upgrade. The article also mentions an annual Weenie Roast for all little leaguers and team staff, to be held Monday at 5 p.m. at Dr Anthony J Ramos's home, with about 130 attendees. players must return uniforms and those needing transport should meet at the Court House on High Street between 4:30 and 5.
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Bristol
Daniel W. Coggeshall
Anthony J Ramos
Court House
High Street
Election Platforms Take Shape As Two Town Parties Debate
Two town committees push into the platform phase of the campaign with four Democrats drafting the platform and five Republicans shaping theirs. They target issues from liquor sales and charter reform to roads, sewers, schools, tolls on Mt Hope Bridge, and the old armory repairs, while election activity grows with voter registration drives and council race rumors.
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Republican Town Committee
John Romano
Democratic Committee
Raymond A. Walker
GOP
Narragansett Bay
Frank L. Martin
Joseph D. Aicardi
Ferdinand Bruno
Anthony J Denis
Anthony DuPont
Manuel Ribiero
John P. Marshall
Robert Manchester
George Oliver
Mt. Hope Bridge
Tiverton Bridge
Metacom Avenue
Democratic Party
Paul C. Millemaggi
Army Families Seek Housing Near Missile Site
Married Army personnel headed to a guided missile site late this month or next report acute trouble finding living quarters. Battery officers say rentals are scarce while a Phoenix spokesman asks homeowners to send available rentals to the city office. About 16 to 20 families will join the battery in Bristol and sign one year leases.
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Phoenix
Army
Bristol
Pigeons to Pittsfield for Bristol race set
Three hundred homing pigeons are being shipped tonight to Pittsfield Massachusetts for tomorrow's race from Pittsfield to Bristol. Local organizer Lombard Pozzi of the Bristol Homing Pigeon Association notes the plan.
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Pittsfield
Mass
Lombard Pozzi
Bristol Homing Pigeon Association
Bristol
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Mr. Wodehouse
Fifth Avenue
Whistler
Mr. Whistler
Hollywood
Wickford Harbor
Salvation Army
Carl H Witherell
Bristol Group
Mill Pond
Samuel C. Wardwell
Warragansett Bay
Jimmy Duffy
Y.M.C.A
Hector Massa
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