Round Table Luncheon Club Masters Washington History
The Sun and Times recounts The Round Table a famed Washington D C luncheon group led by the late Dr Herbert Putnam Librarian of Congress 1899 1939 The attic room table hosted top staff intell igentsia and foreign diplomats with guests like H G Wells Susan B Anthony Carrie Chapman Catt Edith Roosevelt Taft Coolidge and F D Roosevelt The club met 40 years and offered a place for candid discussion in a small circle.
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Sunday NY Times
The
Round Table
Washington D. C
Herbert Putnam
Librarian of Congress
Library of Congress
Dr. Putnam
Intelligensia
H.G. Wells
Mr. Putnam
Rotunda
Susan B. Anthony
Rochester
Carrie
Chapman Catt
New York
Anna H. Shaw
Philadelphia
Edith Carow
Theodore) Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
White House
William Howard Taft
Cal Coolidge
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Hyde Park
N. Y
Brooks Adams
Quincy
Mass
Old Home
Lyon Tyler
William and Mary College
Tyler
Harry A. Garfield
Williams College
Putnam
Jean Jules Jusserand
France
James Bryce
Cecil Spring Rice
Great Britain
Washington
Esme Howard
Vilgrem Wellington Koo
China
Wilhelm Munthe de Morgensteirne
Tang Chon-yi
Wellington Koo
Tang
America
Virginia
Bosworth House Future in Hands Of Society Board
The Bristol Historical Society panel debated the future of the 276 year old Bosworth Perry House in Silver Creek after Rev. Dr Wolf Perry offered the town the property. Calbraith B Perry urged a committee to study acceptance while the board weighs a site condemnation plan for a nearby filling station and seeks funds for renovation. The home’s historic links include Bristol’s first house, Revolutionary War cannon damage, and the town’s first church service.
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Brown University
Providence
R S Bosworth, Jr
Bosworth- Perry
Silver Creek
Bristol
J. Louis Giddings
Bosworth-Perry
DeWolf Perry
Charleston
S. C
America
Perry
Church
Pappasquash Road
Baché
State Street
Historical Society
Bosworth House Future In Hands of Society Board
Bristol Historical Society
Wolf Perry
Calbraith B. Perry
Frank L. Martin
Society
Howard A. Kelley
Stephen W. Hopkins
Harry L Young
Henry Wood
Miriam J. McCaughey
Agnes M. Herreshoff
Herbert B. Burnham, Jr
Albert A. Edmonds
Catherine Levere
Hope Cote
Charlotte Young
Alice B. Almy
Martin
Colt Team Bowl 20-7 In Non-League Opener
Colt lost 20-7 to Rogers at Freebody Park Newport in a non league opener. Tony Nastri scored Colt’s touchdown in the second quarter, Colt tallied four first downs for 143 yards while Rogers had 10 first downs and 302 yards. Rogers opened with a 58 yard end sweep for a TD, Colt fumbled at Rogers four, Nastri tied the game with a two yard score, Rogers added a third quarter TD after a punt return, final 20-7.
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Colt
Rogers
Freebody Park
Newport
Tony Nastri
Bristolians
Newporters
Golt
Karl Carr
Pete Natale
Nastri
Tony
Bristol
Vikings
Dwight Dunn
Jim Eaton
Homesters
Carr
Evening School Registrations Begin At Senior High
Registrations for evening school may be made next Monday and Tuesday nights from 7 to 830 p m at the senior high school announced by Edward J Fitzgerald superintendent of schools Courses open Monday Oct 1 and cover typewriting shorthand bookkeeping office machine work woodworking metal working art clothing commercial law and family finances Miss Anne D Sisson faculty member of the senior high school is principal of the evening school Fitzgerald and Sisson invite suggestions for additional courses Classes held Monday and Tuesday night each week from 700 to 900 p m
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Edward J. Fitzgerald
Anne D. Sisson
Fitzgerald
Sisson
Army Engineers' Hurricane Rep't. Due Tonight
Harbor development commission members will meet in the state house tonight to review final preliminary hurricane protection plans for Narragansett Bay. The U S Army Corps of Engineers conducts the study with public hearings set for Oct 1 2 and 3. Night includes hydraulic model motion pictures from Vicksburg Miss and engineer proposals on barriers or a dam near Providence. The advisory committee will be asked for recommendations while Bristol Harbor may gain breakwater protection amid plans to drop a middle bay barrier from Portsmouth to Prudence Island.
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Frank McKeever
Bristol
Pasadena
Calif
Hope Cote
Fred M. Dixon, Jr
Alice B. Almy
Herbert B. Burnham
Dixon
Almy
Frank L. Martin
Harbor Development Commission
State House
Narragansett Bay
R.I. Hurricane Survey Committee
U S. Army Corps of Engineers
Vicksburg
Miss
Bristol Rotary Club
Lower Bay
Providence
The
Harbor Commission
Bristol Harbor
Middle Bay
Portsmouth
Prudence Island
Means Leaves Bristol Y To Take New London General Secretary Post
The YMCA board announced the resignation of Albert F. Means after seven years in Bristol. He will depart Oct 1 to become general secretary at the Y in New London Conn. A reception for Mr and Mrs Means is planned in the Haffenreffer Room. The board praised his work and efforts to find a successor.
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Ymca Board of Directors
Albert F. Means
Haffenreffer
Means
Bristol
New London, Conn
The
J. Foster Price
Board of
Henry A. Street
State invites bids to convert armory pier on Church Street
The state seeks bids for phase one of a 50000 conversion of the armory at Church Street into a public pier. When finished the facility will host an upper bay station for the fish and game division and serve as a mooring for pleasure boats. The existing pier will be worked on under the specs. A new macadam surface will top the granite pier and fender piles will line the exposed sides. The Stormy Weather dredge boat may be kept at the pier. Specifications call for oak piling and horizontal timbers.
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Church Street
John L Rego
Agriculture and Conservation
State Division of Fish and Game
Thomas J. Wright
Division of Fish and Game
Providence
George Geisser
Ferreira Wins Trip To Olympic Games
Alfred H Ferreira of 36 West Wood Road wins a Colgate Palmolive contest giving all expenses paid trip to Melbourne Australia for the Olympic Games November 22 to December 8. He posted a 25 word entry arguing support for the U S team and will receive two to three thousand dollars in cash. air tickets were presented at his home by Colgate Palmolive officials.
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Alfred H. Ferreira
Westwood Road
Melbourne
Australia
Colgate-Palmolive Co
Ferreira
California
E E Wilson
F Beuermann
Colm To Palmolive Co
F. Beuermann
N. E
E. E. Wilson
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Stanzione
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Alegria
Pasqua
Vaccaro
Medeiros
Travers
Allessandro
Gomez
Puniello
Falco
J. Tavares
Abilheira
Palreiro
A. DaPonte
Usher
Oliveira
T. DaPonte
Garvin
Ramos
Army Engineers
Rockwell Hall
Howe
Dennis Cordeiro
Frederick S. Bartlett
Hector Massa
State Pier
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