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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 29, 1942
Page
2
Local Red Cross asks Bristol women to donate time for surgical dressings to reach 20 000 monthly target. Last week only 1 596 dressings were produced from about two and a half hours per contributor, far short of the goal and urging wartime contribution.
Rhode Island selectives head Brigadier General Herbert R Dean says the November draft will exhaust single registrants in Categories 1 2 and 3 before calling married men. Local boards will supply data to project state quotas and determine which married men without children may be inducted after single men are absorbed by the Army.
Citizens urged to invest 10 percent of income in War Bonds as a show of national effort. The message emphasizes personal sacrifice and unity among civilians to back military campaigns abroad.
A son, Richard Crompton, was born to Mr and Mrs Mervyn Clay of Colonial Road Monday at the Lying-In Hospital. Peter R. McClure leaves Church Street residence to study at Catholic University in Washington DC. Slim Roderick, in Hawaii, promoted to private first class in the Army. Henry J Sylvia Jr inducted as U S Naval Aviation Cadet at a Cambridge ceremony. Tena Roderick returns from Rhode Island Hospital after twelve weeks recovering from a diving injury. Rotary Club Friday meeting canceled speaker. open meeting held at Colonial Hotel. Mrs Belauel G Wardwell to arrange flowers for Bristol County Water Co window. Birth of son Riley Elliotte to Mr and Mrs Riley Lamson of Union Street. Second District Tiverton Post American Legion officers installation at Stone Bridge Inn. Sgt Gordon M Morgan attends Michigan State O g s at Fort Devens. Joseph C Silvia Jr born to Mr and Mrs Joseph C Silvia at Lying-In Hospital. Mrs John T Lewis of Richmond Virginia leaves for New York City to visit daughter before returning home. Charles O F Thompson’s Sketches of Old Bristol presented to Bristol Home for Aged Women.
The Bristol Salvage Committee may receive an iron fence from the Dor ingh property on Hope Street. The 150 foot fence weighs about a ton and a half to two tons in 12 sections with two gates. Bank manager Ralph W. Childs also offers a small safe weighing several hundred pounds and expects salvage material to be found in many places.
In Fall River on Monday September 28 Mrs Anna D Ambrosio Nappi wife of Joseph Nappi funeral services are set at Connery Funeral Home 57 Burton Street. Calling hours are 2 5 7 11 and 8 15 am service Thursday.
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