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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1917
Page
4
The article contrasts Aristotle on myths used by legislators with modern views, noting two roles for myths in governance. It then presents a caricatured section on Arab customs, highlighting dress, writing direction, meals, gender roles, and sobriety, followed by an exaggerated dialect encounter about conjuration and quarantine amid a Richmond Times-Tisnateb style.
Mrs D H De Sorphin of Oklahoma City at the Waldorf Astoria loses a sapphire from a string on her bag. A chambermaid finds a sapphire and returns it. The lady, impressed by honesty, offers reward or disposal and nest egg with proceeds. The maid keeps the found stone.
Sir Thomas Fraser urged regulation of tobacco use among troops, citing Wellington’s general order forbidding smoking in regimental messrooms and adjoining areas to curb intoxication and drinking. The note recalls how, after 1870, the Queen’s Guard senior officer could be exempt from reporting smoking during duty.
A long net gangway extending from a ship projects onto the water and is supported by large air tanks. Hinged poles attach to the vessel and fold into pockets below the first deck when not in use. The system keeps lifeboats away from the hull to avoid wave crushing with boat retention by guff hooks.
A Harpers Monthly contributor calls Constantinople the epicure’s golden cornucopia even in war time. European tastes are said to pale beside the Turkish sweet and savory items such as mahelib pudding and qus koumri fish, though many dishes may be too sugary for Western palates.
The largest storage dam in the world was dedicated after the National Irrigation Congress in El Paso Texas. It blocks the Rio Grande canyon, stores flood and normal flow, drains 30 000 square miles, creates a 45 mile long lake 65 feet deep with a 200 mile shore line, submerges 42 000 acres, and cost 10 000 000 dollars. The water will irrigate 185 000 acres and develop 35 000 horsepower.
A frugal philosopher claims women lack humor. A youth with a growing mustache questions him. The philosopher jokes that women would not reach the love honor and obey portion of wedding rites without a laugh being heard.
The piece criticizes the old fashioned use of Hon for officials and notes a shift toward Col and Profs in modern speech. It mocks pompous titles in a playful tempo and argues against adopting costly new forms. The column cites Taft and local officials as examples.
The war taught about France’s local government and shows why the prefect, a permanent high official, has far more power than a mayor. He oversees police, taxes, and public works, sharing costs with departments or Paris, and can influence military aid in disputes.
Air power is hailed as decisive in future battles with Congress approving 640 million dollars for aeronautics. Aviators and balloon pilots join the Aviation Section of the Signal Officers Reserve Corps as first lieutenants with base pay of 2 000 dollars, training bases, parachute equipped balloons, and paths from enlistment or college routes to officer commissions.
Japanese papers report the steamer Seattle Maru sailing from Yokohama with 6500 tons of cargo and 2 brides for Japanese in the United States East and West. The picture brides system is fading as a selective process emerges where would be husbands initiate the search, inquiries are exhaustive, and marriages under the older crude method proved often unhappy.
The note traces the idiom I don’t think to Captain Marryat’s 1836 Snarley Yow where Moggy Salisbury remarks to Lieutenant Vanslyperken. It links this line to Dickens 1837 Pickwick Papers and Rudyard Kipling’s Jutland articles.
Peter Minor, seventy five, lives in the mountains where he cuts a new set of teeth. He rails daily during spring, builds fences, clears land, and rolls logs. He cultivates flowers with many varieties and roses bloom year round at his remote home. Charleston dispatch.
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