A Battle Worth Watching in Democratic Party Fight
The piece previews a 1940 Democratic National Convention dominated by New Dealers and Roosevelt allies. It notes internecine conflict, past party splits, and the president’s controversial remarks fueling party tension. The author calls the struggle history in the making.
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New York
Roosevelt
Bull Moose Party
Democratic Party
Supreme Court
Pramarie
Stivers
Local Scout Groups Plan Fall Programs at Scout Hall
The Bristol Boy Scout Bugle and Drum Corps meet at 7 PM for practice and final drive returns. Troop 4, Cub Pack No 14, The First Troop, Awashonks Herd, and Troop 3 announce fall roundups, reorganizations, and indoor meetings at Scout Hall with plans for fall and winter activities. several staff vacancies to be filled and merit badge applications to be honored.
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Bristol Boy Scout
Scout Hall
Cub Pack No 14
Court of Honor
Star
Life Scout
Scouts of Awashonks Herd
P.O W. S
Scout Honor Society
John DaPonte
J A S M Joseph Santos
Obituary of Leoline Winter of New Rochelle
Leoline Wachter Winter died Tuesday at her New Rochelle home and was buried in North Cemetery. She was Bristol native, Bristol High School 1887 graduate, wife of Dr Alexander Winter, and had not lived in Bristol for 40 years.
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Leoline (Wachter) Winter
New Rochelle
North
Alexander Winter
Winter
Bristol High School
Bristol
New Comic Weekly Promises Cash Prizes and Features
The Boston Sunday Advertiser announces the first appearance of radio and screen in its September 11 issue. It promotes a new Comic Weekly with $16,000 in cash prizes and ten new features for readers starting next edition.
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T the New Big Comic Weekly
Boston Sunday
School openings and community notes for September
The Fall term at Lee Private School starts Tuesday September 14 and St Marys Parochial School opens Monday for Fall and Winter sessions with registrations showing higher enrollment. The Holy Name Society of Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church resumes Monday at 8 PM. A son was born to Mr and Mrs John P Marshall of 10 Rock Street at St Joseph Hospital Providence. Mr Marshall is known as Foxy Manchoty in set circles.
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St. Mary’s Parochial School
John P. Marshall
Rock Street
St. Joseph Hospital
Providence
Marshall
Army graduate headed to Fort Douglas 38th Infantry
A recent U S Military Academy graduate leaves for Fort Douglas Salt Lake City Utah where he is assigned to the 38th U S Infantry Lieutenant Campanella has been on furlough since graduation and stayed with his parents Mr and Mrs Joseph Campanella on Wood street over the summer.
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U. S. Military Academy
Fort Douglas
Salt Lake City
Utah
38Th
U. S. Infantry
Campanella
Joseph Campanella
Wood Street
Bristol’s 1820s legal scene and the old Cabot mansion
The article recalls 1820s village law practice with Nathaniel Bullock John Howe and Joseph W Torrey and how court weeks drew crowds to Bourne's Tavern and Bristol Hotel. It profiles Squire Howe who built the Cabot house on Hope Street a landmark with classical foyer stairs and eight fireplaces.
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Nathaniel Bullock
John Howe
Joseph W. Torrey
Rhode 13
Bar
Squire” Howe
Brown University
General Assembly
Old Town
Bourne’s Tavern
Bristol Hotel
The
Gazette
State Street Church School Reopens Sunday
The State Street MFE invites worshipers as Sunday School resumes at 9 30 with Rev M W Topping delivering the sermon at 10 45 Revive Us Again. Senior and Junior Boys clubs meet 7 on Friday and Saturday. Senior group tours Providence Drive-In Theatre after a brief meeting. Inspection Day at Boys Club HQ 130 Constitution St. public hours two to nine.
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State Street
MFE
W Topping
Providence
Constitution Street
For Sale Used Bathroom Fixtures Box M Phoen ix Office
Classified sale item offers used bathroom fixtures from Box M located at Phoen ix Office. No contact details provided. Items listed include multiple fixtures in varying condition. Suitable for DIY projects or renovations with assumed standard sizes.
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Box M
Phoenix Office
Consentino Funeral Held Yesterday Morning
A high mass of requiem was celebrated at 9 o'clock yesterday morning in Our Lady of Mt Carmel Church for Mrs Christina Perroni Cosentino 68 who died Monday after a four year illness Rev Joseph Sorzano officiated Burial was in St Mary's Cemetery The bearers were Joseph DeLucca Anthony Cavallaro Lorenzo D Errico Frank Nastri Michael Nero and Louis Cosentino all of this town
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Our Lady of Mt Carmel
Christina
Perroni) Cosentino
Joseph Sorzano
St. Mary's Cemetery
Joseph DeLucca
Anthony Cavallaro
Lorenzo D’errico
Frank Nastri
Michael Nero
Louis Cosentino
MAP OF BRISTOL 1861 Gives Old Streets and Buildings
Nearly 100 years ago civil engineer Henry F. Walling surveyed Bristol and produced maps in 1851 showing wharves warehouses banks hotels and homes with owner names. The article asks readers to identify locations of the town pound Long Wharf Sprague's Wharf Methodist Church and Mount Hope Academy from the era as it recalls the 1861 map and Bristol as it was 87 years earlier.
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Henry F. Walling
Bristol
Long Wharf
Sprague's Wharf
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