Legion Champs Defeat C and A in Exhibition
Bristol’s Kearney Post American Legion champions beat Collins and Aikman Corp. 3 to 0 at Guiteras Field in an exhibition. Only 400 spectators paid 125 dollars. C&A managed three hits. the Legion had one hit, a double by Dick Cordeirde.
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Bristol
Kearney Post American Legion
Collins and Aikman Corp
Guiteras Field
Kearney Post
Legion
Dick Cordeiro
C&a
Joe Malloy
Rudy Cabral
Kearney
Forty and Eight Meet in Bristol County Officers to be Named
Bristol County Voiture No. 1188 Forty and Eight will meet this evening at 8 at Kearney Post Home on Franklin street. Appointive officers for the ensuing year will be named and plans laid for installation of officers and new committees. Chef de Gare elect Angelo Piccerelli will preside with a social hour and refreshments following the promenade.
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Bristol County
Kearney
Franklin Street
Chef de Gare
Angelo Piccerelli
Bristol Rangers Retain Rhode Island Drum Corps Title
The Bristol Rangers Drum and Bugle Corps won the Rhode Island state championship for the third straight year. They secured the senior male division title with top marks in appearance, playing, and drum major. Ennis Bisbane won bugling and Harry Sousa won modern bass drumming. They proceed to Waterbury Connecticut for the Northeastern States Championships on September 30.
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Bristol Rangers
Rhode Island
Mass
Irhode Island
Buglers’ Association
Rangers
Walter Machado
Ennis Bisbane
The
Harry Sousa
Waterbury
Conn
Bristol Boy Scout Drum Corps Captures State Junior Title
The Bristol Boy Scout Drum and Bugle Corps won the State Junior Division championship at Norwood Massachusetts, marking their second straight junior crown. They swept all junior male events and earned several individual awards. They next head to Waterbury Connecticut for the Northeastern States Championship and to Springfield Massachusetts for the Annual Junior Musical Festival.
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Bristol Boy Scout
Norwood
Mass
Rhode Island
Buglers’ Association
Boy Scouts
Norman Taste
Robert Ballou
Raymond Sartini
Leonard Francis
Bristol Boy Scout Corps
Bristol Rangers
Waterbury
Conn
Bristol Firemen Discuss Memorial Proposal Among Four Companies
Representatives of three Bristol volunteer fire companies met at Hy Vaulion Station to review a memorial for firefighters. Memorial Committee secretary Orlando J. Bisbane said two companies had approved using carnival funds for the project. Ever Ready was absent and sent a letter. Defiance abstained awaiting Ever Ready action. The committee reported progress and the plan to seek full participation from all four crews. An Oct. 9 meeting was set to reconvene and again seek votes.
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Bristol
Hy‘avaulion
Orlando J. Bisbane
Mmembers
Hygraulion Co
Dreadnaught
Defiance 'Co
Ever Ready Co
Defiance Hose Co
Memorial
Bisbane
Prudence Island lab fund killed by House committee
The House conference committee rejected the Senate approved 24.5 million dollar foot-and-mouth disease research lab on Prudence Island as part of a 16 million dollar supplemental bill. The move ends the effort for now with no renewed funding expected this session.
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Prudence Lab
House Comm
House Conference
Senate
Prudence Island
Washington
Congress
House
Mexico
Wounded Cavalryman John Sylvester in Tokio Hospital
Pfc John DeWitt Sylvester of the US Army First Cavalry Division was wounded in Korea on Sept 4 and is recovering at Tokyo General Hospital Japan. A Sept 11 letter from Tokio says he is feeling grand and reading well. He joined the Army in 1948, previously worked in Bristol and earned an Eagle Scout rank in April 1948.
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John DeWitt Sylvester
First Cavalry Division
Korea
Harold Sylvester
Elizabeth Street
Tokio General Hospital
Japan
John
Tokio
St Mary's Parochial
Bristol Phoenix Publishing Co
George Sparks Painting Co
Maryland
Jjames
Camp Devens
Mass
Bristol
Camp Yawgoog
Women's Republican Club Endorses G O P Town Candidates
The Bristol Women's Republican Club endorsed the three GOP Town Committee picks: James A. McKenna for State Senator, Mrs. John Watson for Representative from the Second District, and Vincent Malafront for the First District. The meeting at 11 Constitution Street covered club officers and committees, with future appearances planned by several GOP candidates.
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Bristol Women's Republican Club
Republican Town Committee
Albert O. Earle
Constitution Street
James A. McKenna
John Watson
Vincent Malafront
Earl Sturdevant
Joseph Silvia
Sylvester Silvia
Emanuel Iacoletti
Louise Brechin
Albert O Earle
J. Floyd Huestis
Viola Palmer
John Bernardo
Raymond Walker
Louis Castriotta
Roger Pigeon
Russell S Bray
Earle
Rhode Island Federation of Republican Women
Robert F Shepard
Narragansett
Federation
Bristol
Russell S. Bray
Mary Rice
Gilbert Hardy
Bertrand L. Hornby
Pauline Jencks
Sidney Herreshoff
Albert Charle
J Fley Huestis
Louise. Brechin
George Phillips
Edmund Rex
Wallace Dibble
Charles Jencks
James McKenna
John la Fazia
Candlelight Pops Concert by Bristol Women’s Guild
The Women's Guild of First Congregational Church Bristol hosts a Candlelight Pops Concert on Wednesday September 27 in the De Wolf Memorial room. An evening of varied entertainment includes Gertrude Coady soprano Axel Munro Bristol trumpet duo Vernon Gray Hermann Wilbur Raymond Gruenwald Roswell S Bosworth Sr August Arruda accordion Robert Kinder magician G Earl Rounds pianist with refreshments served during the show.
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Women’s Guild of the
First Congregational Church of
Bristol
de Wolf
Gertrude Coady
Kontralto
Providence
Ellsworth
Axel” Munro
Vernon Gray
Herrmann Wilbur
Raymond Gruenwald
Roswell S. Bosworth
August Arruda
Robert Kinder
G. Earl Rounds
Bristol Council Meets on Pre-1950 Platted Roads Policy
Bristol Town Council, Budget and Planning Boards will meet with Highway Surveyor Joseph Pannone to craft a policy for repair and maintenance of roads platted before Jan 1, 1950. Discussed topics include funding between Financial Town Meetings, road type choices, Bayside and Park Shores Plats, and priority criteria based on homes and road age.
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Bristol
Planning’ Board
Joseph F Pannone
Bayside
Park Shores
Clark
Bristol Planning Board
Planning Board
Joseph F. Pannone
Elevators and the San Francisco Letter on a Revolution
In Bristol a casual remark about elevators contrasts with a San Francisco letter describing a claimed revolutionary change in elevators. The piece notes familiarity with local operators and hints at broader urban developments mentioned by the writer.
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Bristol
San Francisco
Elevators of City Building Show Dignity in Uniforms
Effie Marie and Mrs Stout operate the building elevators as equals to city officials and advertising executives. Marie keeps a lace handkerchief and a flower in her uniform, bidding goodnight with warmth and assurance to early-arriving carloads. Her dignity and poise are unmatched.
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Effie
Marie
Mrs. Stout
Effie the Elevator Voices Democracy in a Syria to Damascus Bus
The narrator recalls Effie a short irritable woman with a flashing smile. Effie, born in Syria, notes a new bus between Mt Leban and Damascus cutting travel time. Mrs Stout, motherly in uniform, returns from vacation to the elevator and is greeted by a warm welcome from onlookers. The piece ends praising self-respect as a form of democracy in the building.
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Effie
Effe
Syria
Mt. Lebanon
Damascus
Market Street
Jidine
Elevators and city life in a broad American view
A fragmented, satirical passage discusses elevators as universal, dynamic symbols across the United States. It jokes about public servants like a smiling postman and a substitute on a telegator, and it mocks propaganda in urban spaces and media outlets while reflecting on democracy and modernization.
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Therelious
Univnof California
Voice of America
Radio Free
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