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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 30, 1932
Page
2
Editorial calls for careful selection of elected leaders amid unemployment and weak business. While admitting serious conditions, it stresses the need for capable government and private cooperation to restore prosperity and put the town back on its feet.
Community notices report a rummage sale at Levy Store on State Street by Epworth League, Mite Society meetings, marriage intentions filed in Barrington, and various church and club activities. Also listed are hospital updates, a flagpole repair stunt, new library books, and open house at the Guiteras House.
The Bristol Boy Scout Bugle and Drum Corps travels to Crescent Park for a Riverside Post American Legion contest under Assistant Scoutmaster Erasmo Muanciuu. They seek further honors after winning Narragansett Council events and a recent Eastern States Exposition setback.
Fragmentary OCR text shows blurred names and ad phrases including telephone and price cues. Readable elements reference Coleman, Fish, SONS and a few partially legible lines about a writer or seller. The page likely contains classified notices or small ads with uncertain content.
A reader complains that Reynolds School kept its doors locked on a rainy Wednesday, forcing children to wait outside until 8 45. The writer notes Byfield and Walles schools opened early and urges authorities to correct the policy.
A letter proposes a plan to beautify Bristol with an athletic field behind Guiteras School and a baseball diamond, tennis courts, and funded by unemployed youths. It calls leasing the DeWolf Inn site for a breakwater beach, moving the bath house, painting the Court House, planting grass on the common, cement seats under trees, flower gardens, and moving the children's playground. The signatory is SARA A OH DeWOLF dated Sept 1932.
Capt Albert Hartley of Collins & Aikman led his rifle team to a 1206 1177 victory over the Battery Shooters at the State Armory range. Hartley was 240th high for the evening while Sgt George Moren posted 260. The National Guardsmen provided the opposing side in a bracketed city match.
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