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Newspaper

Bristol Phoenix

Location

Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America

Date

Sep 25, 1956

Page

3

243rd Bn Team Wins 103rd F A Bn Match

The 243rd Battalion team won the 103rd Fort Army Battalion team match, outscoring the A Battalion and the 743rd Battalion Sav. The victory highlights the unit’s competitive performance in the annual contest.

F. A. Bn A. Bn Bn. Sav

Wall of Bristol Harbor recalls a grand steamship era

The Bristol Line era in 1867 spurred a granite seawall at the freight yard and a bustling waterfront. Accounts in Ships and the Sea and Phoenix recount Fisk Gould rivalry, lavish rail steamers Bristol and Providence, 373 foot two-masted liners, and crowds that strained the Boston run. The long wall and nearby turntable remains a vivid link to those transformative days.

Bristol Harbor Bristol New York Boston Ships and the Sea Phoenix Franklin Street New England Boston and Providence Providence Fall River Newport Old Colony Jim Fisk Vermont Wall Street Fisk & Belden Jay Gould Daniel Drew Cam Cornelius Vanderbilt Erie Fisk Bristol Line Stonington R. I Fisk-Gould Fall River Line McAdam

PTA forms membership group chaired by Mrs Falkon S Davis

Mrs Falkon S Davis was named chairman of the PTA membership committee at a meeting last night held at Mrs Lester Gurney's home to plan an October membership drive. Other committee members include Mesdames Monroe Toews Albert V Pearson Douglas Klein Richard Spence Saul Ricklin and Phillip Carr

Falkon S. Davis PTA Lester Gurney Mesdames Monroe Toews Albert V. Pearson Douglas Klein Richard Spence Saul Ricklin Phillip Carr

Battery C Nose Out State Team In Rifle Meet

Battery C edged the State Headquarters Detachment rifle team 264 to 263 at Sun Valley to keep the 118th engineers match plaque for a third straight year. M Sergeant Louis Costa led with 91 of 100, as three man teams fired 30 caliber M 1 rifles. Other teams and scores included Battery A 243rd AAA 251 Co D 118th Eng Warren 243 Hoy 743rd End 240 and Co A 743rd 228. Costa 91 Savino 88 Topazio 85. Sunday afternoon Co D 118th Engineers Warren defeated 243rd AAA 675 to 664 to win the 243rd AAA team plaque. Battery C finished third with 655. Sunday morning the

C’s Sun Valley 118Th Engineers Louis Costa Eng Warren Hoy Costa Savino Topazio Co. “D 243Rd AAA State Headquarters Battery “C

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