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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1925
Page
4
A sprawling vintage puzzle page lists numerous clues across horizontal and vertical sections. Readers are teased with solution reveal in the next issue, hinting at historical slang and a wide range of topics from anatomy to geography.
The 13 original states formed the nation with an area of 882 136 square miles. The U S territory under the flag has expanded to about four times that size.
A study reports speech muscles across the body perform 1,500 distinct movements in one minute highlighting high activity in voice control muscles during speaking. This finding underscores the rapid motor actions involved in producing speech.
A carrier tells a funny tale of a foreign letter recipient who refused a 20 cent due. He corrects the charge to 15 cents and the woman, upon hearing 15 cents, smiles and pays gladly believing she secured a bargain. The anecdote appears in the American Magazine via G Edward Snyder.
The passage contrasts youth as strange and novel with middle age as a garment of reminiscences. It notes a shift from vivid discovery to a life shaped by lived experiences and moral storytelling, where experiences are recounted and framed by memory and tradition.
A teacher notes in the New York Times that the word gauge is often misspelled in print and even stamped this way on goods. The list then flags buoy and indelible as frequently erroneous, with debble predicted for many due to unfamiliarity with its negative form.
Global pin factories produce about 44 000 000 pins daily. If laid end to end the line would stretch halfway across the Atlantic. A few weeks’ total would encircle the earth.
Captain Alfred Kling reports from Tilus trierte Zeitung Berlin on Easter Island in the South Pacific. The piece notes 555 giant lava statues, including a 21 meter long thunder god statue, dating from a violent past and unclear worship.
Argentina uses mandatory marksmanship for males eight to forty five as part of military instruction. Though army service is by lot, those chosen can shorten their term by completing the marksmanship course. Last year forty four thousand citizens trained at 130 rifle ranges, firing four million three hundred thousand cartridges.
Pianist Cortet, famed for brilliance, faces a playful interruption after a dinner in Paris. A fluttering young woman asks if he can improvise a short quaver and semiquaver piece, requesting another encore from the master.
In a Dutch fishing village the licensing shortage forces residents into World War I trenches repurposed as homes. Narrow dugouts house large families with wartime tables and machine gun chairs as loopholes serve as windows. No water or light. lodgers showcase their dens to passersby for a small fee.
Three year old Herbert visits his grandfather's farm for the first time. He watches Hannah dress a turkey and wonders why feathers are saved as seed. He is surprised by the milking process and asks if the cow's faucets will be turned on.
About 10 000 telephone companies operate in the United States and over 91 percent are interconnected so that a subscriber may talk to nearly any other subscriber across the country.
A historical survey traces early precedents for modern innovations from 1625 to the 19th century. It cites Morse signals on the Susquehanna, James Lindsay’s coastal wire experiment, penny in the slot machines of 1829, and early motor coaches and submarines, illustrating long-standing roots of celebrated technologies.
Henry and Diana debate romance and sympathy. Henry favors the extreme edge of the straight path for company while Diana suggests meeting nicer people in the middle. The exchange mixes wit and social mood from Mischief by Ben Travers.
In Paris a private club admits only those over 200 pounds with monthly meetings at a famed restaurant that closes for a “sacrifice.” Members range from actors and writers to a marshal, a senator, a communist leader, and a taxi driver, reflecting a diverse membership.
Munich publisher Postmaster Stephan issues the firrst air guided book for air traffic with sections on aviation conditions in Germany. International airline firms share plans and details, landing fields and harbors are listed, plus political factors, company administration, statistics, and maps. The author claims air travel is fastest and safest transport today.
The latest figures show 52,567 blind persons in the United States with 380,160 males and 22,407 females. Of these, 45,737 are white, 6,302 Negro, 488 Indians, and 40 Chinese and Japanese. Census estimates the actual number at 75,000 to 76,000 in 1920, up about 5,000 since 1910.
A White Plains New York high school student named William Myers used the school sending station 2 BQB to inform the science department head that he would be absent. He reportedly went to a neighbor's home to send the message from the neighbor's sending station. The communication was received by the school’s sending and receiving station.
In the Great Smoky foothills, Walker, a local mountain man, accepts LDS tract offerings from two visiting elders while his influential brother Sammie watches from the porch. The scene captures a rural conversion moment noted by Every body's Magazine.
A landowner rebukes a new plowman over wavering furrows. Tammas replies with a calm tale about crookéd drills letting the sun shine in from all sides so you plant potatoes. The exchange hints at ancestry and national traits in a rural Scottish setting.
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