Community column urges action on relief and trees preservation
In a vigorous letter to the Bristol Phoenix, a resident urges constructive unemployment relief, central purchasing, and expert planning to aid several hundred needy families. The writer protests a four lane highway plan that threatens elm trees along the main road, calling for tree preservation and civic unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol Phoenix
Bristol
Red Cross
State Board of Public Roads
Warren
Pappoosesquaw
State Board
Guneral
Metacom Avenue
Hope Street
Gutteras School
Misquoted Report on School Committee Meeting
A misquoted portion from the School Committee meeting report is noted in the article. The piece clarifies statements attributed to officials and corrects the record on discussed budget and policy matters.
DeWolf postpones petition to boost town meeting turnout
Philip DeWolf writes he will delay submitting a petition to the Town Council to ensure a large turnout at the upcoming Town Meeting. He cites broad support, except for two classes of influence seeking to avoid public records, and notes fear over the Director of Public Aid affecting orders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWolf
Bristol Phoenix
Public Aid
Philip Dewolf
Strangers May Kiss Stars Norma Shearer in Talkie Drama
Norma Shearer headlines the MGM talkie Strangers May Kiss shown September 14 and 15. She earns the Academy Award for 1930 for outstanding performance with a glamorous sharp role surpassing The Divorcee. Robert Montgomery and Neil Hamilton play lead male parts in this sparkling production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norma Shearer
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Miss Shearer
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
Robert Montgomery
Neil Hamilton
Notable Screen Cast Adds Atmospheric Performances
Francis McDonald leads a cast noted for dark handsome heavy roles. Harold Goodwin Lawrence LaMar Robert Perry Wilbur Mack and Sid Saylor, fresh from Ruth Chatterton in Unfaithful, take on other important atmospheric parts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis McDonald
Harold Goodwin
Lawrence LaMar
Robert Perry
Wilbur Mack
Sid Saylor
Ruth Chatterton
Parlor Bedroom and Bath comes to screen with Buster Keaton
Friday and Saturday showings at the Republic Theatre feature Buster Keaton in Parlor Bedroom and Bath with a strong supporting cast. Sunday includes Everything's Rosie and The Flood, a dramatic Mississippi River tale starring Eleanor Boardman and Monte Blue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bath
Republic Theatre
New York
Talking Screen
Buster
Keaton
Charlotte Greenwood
Reginald Denny
Cliff Edwards
Dorothy Christy
Joan Peers
Sally Eilers
Natalie Moorhead
Edward Brophy
Walter Merrill
Sidney Bracy
Richard Schayer
Robert F. Hopkins
Miss Moorhead
Denny
Miss Peers
Eleanor Boardman
Monte Blue
Riverside
Fleanor Boardman
Joan Marshall
David Newell
Reception at Miramar Delights Society in 1906
A July 27 1906 social reception at Miramar hosted by Mrs Francisco Eugene de Wolf honored her daughter Baroness Blanche Levay de Kistelek. Notables included Commodore Isherwood and many prominent New England and New York figures among a plants and cut flowers decorated Colonial mansion setting.
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Miramar
Francisco Eugene de Wolf
Blanche Levay de Kistelek
Benjamin F. Isherwood
U.S. Navy
Theodora Zeller
Herbert M. Howe
Samuel Pomeroy Colt
Daniel R. Case
Misses Case
John
Cornell
Newport
Carl Brownell
US. Navy
John Brown Hereshoff
Arthur Whitney Howe
Philadelphia
Stephen O. Metcalf
Providence
Henry A.perkins
Hartford
Conn
Wallis E. Howe
Lawrence M. Kortright
John Winthrop de Wolf
Joseph E Fletcher
W. Fred Williams
Perry
Walter S. Wilson
New York
Charles Hosmer
Elizabeth R. Brown
E. S. Coward
Edwin Barrows
Edwin Channing Larned
Louie M. G. Pratt
Alice Bourn
Ostrander
Albert Cheseborough
George W Adams
William G. Low
George T. French
Harriet Ramsay deWolf
Charles DeWolf Brownell
Busker
George L. Locke
D. D
Henry W. Hayes
Frederic Hayes
Amy Hayes
Fielding Willams
Bache
Miss Bache
Montgomery
Caroline
Chesebrough
John W Herreshoff
C B. Rockwell
W L. McKee
The Lawyer's Secret dramatic review with star cast
Wednesday and Thursday the Chive Brook production brings Richard Arlen Fay Wray Jean Arthur and Charles Rogers to a gripping drama about a lawyer in love who becomes entangled in a murder case. Arlen faces a death sentence while Rogers protects him and Jean Arthur explains the truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chive Brook
Richard Arlen
Fay Wray
Jean Arthur
Charles Rogers
Brook
Rogers
Arken
Arlen
Warning for Special Town Meeting in Bristol 1931
The Bristol Town Council calls a special town meeting for September 21 1931 at 7 30 PM at the Town Hall to repeal a prior relief resolution and to appropriate 15900 for relief of the poor. A new advisory committee for the Director of Public Aid may be appointed and instructed to cooperate with the committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bristol
John W Church
Saidtown
Rhode Island
Bradford Street
Thomas E. Johnson
Bristol Train of Artillery visits Island Park camp Rhode Island
Col John H Bailey Jr and Col Andrew J Meiggs visit Bristol Train of Artillery veterans in camp at Island Park Rhode Island near a pavilion along the Seaconner River. The 28 to start, now growing, show healthy tents and orderly grounds as drills and maneuvers proceed. A supper and fair at O Wolf Inn Aug 2 supports St Michael's Church organ fund with tables hosted by local residents.
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John H Bailey, Jr
Andrew J. Meiggs
Bristol Train of Artillery Veteran Association
Bristol Train of Artillery
Island Park
Island
Rhode Island
Seaconner River
Merton A Cheesman
O'Wolf Inn
Organ Fund
St . Michael’s Church
H. R DeWolf
E J Fletcher
H W Haves
Helen Wheelwright
Christine Howe
Tallan Wilson
William P Gladding
Edith Howe
Isabelle Hoffman
Hoosier Farm Boy Dewey Rises to Radio Stardom
In Macy Indiana the boy of five lifted to his father’s band stand becomes a leading radio baritone. Dewey joins the General Motors Quartet filling Elliott Shaw’s spot and will sing weekly, tour the United States annually, and perform in Europe. The quartet also includes James Melton Lewis James Phil Dewey and Wilfred Glenn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hil Dewey
Macy
Indiana
General Motors
Elliott Shaw
Dewey
United States
Europe
James Melton
Lewis James
Phil Dewey
Wilfred Glenn
Mortgagee's Sale on Bristol Rhode Island Lands
Public auction set for September 16, 1931 at 1 PM under a mortgage deed from Edward R. Tramonti and Rose G. Tramonti dated December 18, 1928. Affected are numerous Bristol Rhode Island lots in Colonial Terrace described in Plat by Waterman Engineering Co. 1928. Attorney Clifton Munroe represents the mortgagee and bids may be made at the sale or any adjournment.
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Edward R. Tramonti
Rose G. Tramonti
Bristol
County of
State of
Rhode Island
Colonial Terrace
R. I
Waterman Engineering Co
Clifton , Munroe
Westminster Street
Providence
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Lanzire’s Express
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E. L. Watson Co., Inc
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G. W. Simmons
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Tel
Augustus P. Duffy
W. W. Franklin & Co
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Freeborn R. Cole
Cook Street
E. W. Weaver
High Street
Bristol District Nursing Association
Martha Graham
Thyra Carlson Wesidence
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