The Greatest Show On Earth at the Pastime this week
Review praises Cecil B DeMille’s technicolor Behind the scenes epic about Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey Circus. Betty Hutton trains on trapeze and performs dramatic stunts in Sarasota and Philadelphia with a thunderous audience. The piece highlights realism and vivid circus spectacles.
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Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey Circus
DeMille
Betty Hutton
Holly
Sarasota
Florida
Betty
Philadelphia
Defiance Water Battle Defends Title in Johnston
Bristol's Defiance water battle team aims to defend the state championship for the 18th consecutive year at a firemen’s event in Johnston. They face Geneva in the afternoon event with other teams from Lymansville Appenoug Thornton and Marieville in a tournament sponsored by the U S State Firemen's League.
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Bristol
Defiance
Johnston
Geneva
Thornton
Angelo Andrade
John Francis
Lymansville
Appenoug
Marieville
U. S
Defiance Water Battle
R.J. Firemen’s League
Frank Brown, Jr
Freak Pear Grows From Tree Trunk In Bristol
A Bristol pear tree grafted from Bartlett stock produced a lone fruit directly from the trunk. Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Vargas of 14 Fox Hill Avenue reported no spring blossom yet the fruit formed on the main trunk away from branches and is nearly ripe.
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Bristol
Frank G. Vargas
Fox Hill Avenue
Evening School Opens Monday with 103 Enrolled
The Bristol Evening School begins Monday at 7 p.m. in Andrews. Current enrollment stands at 103 students with more registrations expected. Instructors include Miss Margaret F. Nerone, Mr. Mario T. Bozzi, Miss Alexandrina Fernandez, Miss Helen A. Condon, Mr. James D. Sullivan, Mr. James R. Gromling, and Mr. Charles McCloskey.
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Bristol
Andrews
Margaret F. Nerone
Mario T. Bozzi
Alexandrina Fernandez
Helen A. Condon
James D. Sullivan
James R. Gromling
Charles McCloskey
McCloskey
Cherry & Webb Co
Providence
Newport
Hope Street Cows Wander, Drivers Side-Swipe Early Morning
Four cows wandered Hope Street at 7 30 as about two dozen drivers collided horns and engines. Philip Sansone of 1181 Hope Street corralled the animals back to his yard, avoiding injuries or further chaos.
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Hope Street
Bessie
Philip Sansone
Sansone
Little League Seeks Volunteers To Improve Infield
The King Philip Little League calls for volunteers with rakes and shovels to fertilize top dress feed and roll the infield at World War II Memorial Park. Materials are ready and Sunday at ten AM volunteers are asked to help complete the work by one PM. The aim is a top surface for state playoff hopes next year. Warren notes stiff competition for best park.
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Little League
King Philip
Warren
Police Report: Stone Collides With Parked Car
Friday at 6 55 a m David F Stone 23 of 189 Mt Hope Ave in a 1941 convertible struck a parked auto owned by Dexter Slocum of 66 Mt Hope Ave The driver told police he looked away for a moment while brushing a bag from the window Both cars sustained considerable damage and were towed off The Slocum vehicle was pushed onto the sidewalk Stone escaped injury
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David F. Stone
Mt. Hope Ave
Dexter Slocum
Stone
Slocum
Bristol Brings Tax Revamp Plan to October Meeting
Bristol Tax Study Committee recommends re evaluation of the town tax structure carried out by the Board of Assessors with paid consultants. The Town Council approves including a $15,000 line item for the project in the October 1 special financial town meeting agenda as the first order of business.
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Bristol
Bristol Board of Assessors
Rhode Island
Bristol Rent Study Panel Recommends Extending Controls
A 3-2 vote by Bristol's 1952 special rent control study committee urged extending controls to April 30, 1953 after finding 16 rentable vacant units from 33 reported. The town council unanimously agreed to continue controls, while the committee was dismissed.
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Special
Bristol
Providence Area Rent Office
Area Rent Office
Raymond S. Brightman
Eward J. Fitzgerald
Anthony E. Agatiello
Albert A. Edmonds
Salvador Nunes
Bristol Council Adopts 3000 Charter Booklets Publication Plan
The Bristol town council approved publishing 3000 booklets of the proposed home rule charter and set October 3 as booklet ready. The ballot question will ask readers to adopt the charter framed by the charter commission if approved, bringing a town manager form of government into effect March 23, 1953.
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Thomas C. Jannsen
Bristol Charter Commission
Jannsen
Paul Herzig
Lucien Capone
Charter Commission
Charter Commission of
Bristol
Bayberry Garden Club Sets Begonia Discussion Tonight
The Bayberry Garden Club will meet Monday at 8 p.m. in Guiteras House to discuss begonias. Members include Mrs. Howard House Mrs. Lester Gurney III and Mrs. Salvatore Rossi. Exchanges planned with slips of house plants. Mrs. Wheaton Thomas hosts assisted by Mrs. Stuart Smith.
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Bayberry Garden Club
Guiteras House
Howard House
Lester Gurney III
Salvatore Rossi
Wheaton Thomas
Stuart Smith
Preservation Society to Hear Mrs Warren on Local Landmarks
The Bristol Historical Society will hold a Monday night meeting at 9:00 p.m. in the society rooms on Hope Street. Speaker Mrs George Henry Warren, president of the Preservation Society of Newport County, will describe the society’s work preserving old landmarks.
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Bristol Historical Society
Society Rooms
Hope Street
George Henry Warren
Preservation Society of
Newport County
Gooding Avenue Zoning Change OK'd by Town Council
The town council approved two rezoning petitions on Gooding Avenue to Industrial H for 40 acre and 2.7 acre plots and placed them on the November 4 ballot along with a proposed charter. Parking meters in Bristol were also slated for November 4 per spring legislation.
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Bristol Park Shores
Bristol Narrows
Coggeshall Avenue
Park Shores
The
Narrows Improvement Association
Lucien Capone
Fred Cioffi
Park Shores Improvement Association
Gooding Avenue
Antonio
Francisco Sousa
Joseph
Gemma M. L. du Pont
Dixon Lubricating
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Paramount Sound
Mewshawks
Gloria Grabarney
Defiance Water Battle Team
ST. Michael's Church
John Stewart
Evelyn Carter
Russell Southwick
Marilyn Smith
Arthur Williams
Leonard Waitt
Courtland Chamberlain
Samuel Clark
University of Life
John Hill
Faith of the Church
Albert C. Larned
John Marshall
Begonias
Preservation Society
BHS Speaker
Daponte’s Poultry
Baker ST
Cosa D. Dudurle
Shay
Leable Henk
Mey
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Aeove Stewart Granger
Wendell ‘Corey the Wild ‘North
Aalar
Peek-A Boo
Joan C Greenwood
Marcel
Arnnwood
Mare Arnold
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