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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 07, 1925
Page
4
A device uses a thread from the plant to a rotating drum and an electric pen. As the plant grows the thread slackens and marks the drum, recording growth over time. A rod adjusts the string to keep tension, showing effects of heat and light on specimens.
A Yale professor reports tests on trained racing oarsmen showing they use energy more efficiently than most engines. He notes one fourth of their energy powers the oar boat while a race breathes 16 gallons of air per minute. A start yields about four horsepower per man and a four mile race consumes nearly half a pound of sugar in fuel.
R L Ditmarrs recounts transporting wild animals from San Francisco to New York by train. The cargo included pythons, a pygmy water buffalo, and two orangutans. The orangs endured temp changes, one slept in a sunny warehouse room, the other in the hotel master's room with reluctant hotel permission. The railroad aided the Overland Limited four days to reach their new home.
Fragmentary account describes Maui and Maul Island lore with legends of kings Lilys and Liloa, the high priest, and a struggle for succession. It mentions sacrifices and a map showing nearby islands including Socoanut Island.
The article traces the word torpedo to torpid, noting two meanings: a lack of motion and a racing boat term from Oxford. It states the torpedo is torpid before firing, then becomes highly effective like lightning once its propulsion begins.
Norman Hapgood surveys the wasp that stings prey to paralyze it without killing then stores it for larvae. The mother wasp never sees her young yet designs intricate safeguards for their early needs. The piece lauds precise natural engineering.
The article traces the origins of right and left, noting the right side is associated with action and correctness while left derives from a term meaning worthless. It explains how both terms extended to describe entire sides of the body and related actions, including foot and arm use.
Legend recounts Rama of Benares cured of leprosy by kalaw tree fruits and leaves. He marries a princess exiled for disease, base of a dynasty, and their 82 sons founded a city where the kalaw tree grew. Traders from India to Burma and Siam sell chaulmoogra seeds for skin ailments.
Two Swedish engineers Hans und berg and Harry Nathurst invented an electric instrument that detects metallic ores underground. A prospector wears telephone receivers while moving the device over ground. a sound signals a vein beneath, enabling locating valuable metals without tools.
In Eatonville Deever Spilskine, amid doubts about his education, gives his first official school board speech. He deflects criticism by saying some matters are the teacher’s and leaves judgment to her, while praising the pupils’ prompt answers at District No 4.
An early London Tit Blits note describes Charles Crasheir and Clarence Coldfect courting Constance Cuddley. Both men clash in a chaotic scene causing Constance distress and a collapse chair incident before Charles capitulates and the cottage scene ends in commotion.
Matthew Arnold defines great cultural figures as those who spread the best knowledge and ideas widely. They strip knowledge of harshness and exclusivity to humanize it while preserving core thought and becoming sources of sweetness and light.
Archaeologists note enormous statues scattered across Pacific islands possibly from a vanished continent. Men from Topas crew and 300 natives reportedly aided in moving a four ton statue from its site. Hats once adorning the figures lie nearby, now eroded from volcanic stone.
In medieval England the poor could take wood from a lord’s forest using hook and crook as a burdensome prerogative. Boundary stones marked limits for access, and the Bodmin Register of 1525 records Dynavure Wood as open to Bodmin inhabitants to bear away lop crop hook crook and bag wood.
Rhode Island State Board of Public Roads invites sealed bids for Contract 2505 to reconstruct Warren Main Street and Warren Bridge to South Warren R R crossing. Bids due noon EST on April 22, 1925, with $200000 certified check. Bids on blanks provided. board may reject all bids and prefer towns under Rhode Island General Laws.
Brown and Jones at the club lament the absence of their mutual friend Robinson who has just married. They joke that since he tied the knot his social freedom has diminished, with playful quips about rope and new obligations.
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