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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1922
Page
6
The article distinguishes normal wood color from abnormal or pathologic coloration caused by disease insect activity and other non regular life processes. It notes that natural coloration belongs to sound wood while distortions indicate external factors affecting the tree.
The late Edgar Saltus notes that love tying two hearts does not ensure constant harmony. He adds that life offers delight many miss and that the world holds charming people most never encounter.
Royal accounts recount a Maundy Thursday distribution to the poor who visited the palace. Beggars received mutton, ale, boiled beef, three fish, and four loaves of white bread, plus shoes, stockings, and woolen linen cloth. Puréed coin payments totaled £4 per beggar in copper and silver.
An elderly woman, seventy, visiting her ninety five year old mother, seems tearful at parting. The aged daughter says goodbye with hopeful wishes while the mother briskly notes concerns about her health. The exchange ends with mutual hope of meeting again.
The Red Sox offered to play Bristol on August 13 via Harold D. Shippee, who instead handed the offer to Warren Club management. Warren announced a game date, prompting a back and forth over guarantees and ultimately a cancellation. Bristol Baseball Association condemns the mishandling and pledges to keep baseball above suspicion.
A church sexton who is deaf quits the organ during hymns. A new minister arrives and a young woman organist sends him a note asking steady playing. The sexton hands the note to the minister after the first hymn, who reads Keep blowing steadily away until I tell you to stop.
The text traces varnish as a preservative back to ancient Egypt and Thebes temple paintings. It notes amber’s magnetic myth for tone, describes Zanzibar gum as amber’s closest clear substitute, and mentions bugs and a chipmunk tail embedded in the gum as curiosities.
An American tourist in a Scottish town seeks chocolate creams on a Sunday but a shopkeeper refuses citing ecclesiastical confections. She explains peppermint drops pap drops and ginger lozenges count as sacred while chocolate creams are banned on the Sabbath.
The piece outlines three motives for travel namely necessity pleasure and achievement. It notes peasants stay fixed by their work while others roam seeking escape. It compares sedentary artisans and merchants to a nomadic impulse and observes Roma transitioning from horse drawn wagons to automobiles.
Money cannot buy all happiness yet people often find satisfaction in material goods and experiences they can obtain. The passage notes a tendency to value tangible rewards and pleasures over intangible outcomes.
In Ketchikan Alaska fans schedule baseball around tides. The town uses a temporary diamond on Clarence Strait shoreline with a grandstand built inshore. Games are canceled when tides cover the field and tide tables guide the season.
The Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph reports researchers studying radioactivity propose that atmospheric conductivity is largely due to radioactive emanations from the earth. They note higher conductivity in closed cells and deep holes and wells, and increases on days of low barometer as emanations escape fissures. volcanic activity may also be driven by radioactive emissions from gases.
The writer argues death is natural and inevitable guiding life. He claims nothing dies in vain and suffering pays for progress, with each extinction fulfilling a need. Death is as natural as birth and the living must learn to profit from others deaths to avoid pitfalls.
A visitor from the civilized world reports the Maldive archipelago in the Indian Ocean. The group numbers at least fourteen thousand coral rock islets, none rising above seven or eight feet, many with coconut palms. Atolls circle the lagoons with narrow channels, and some islands form ring shapes with inner lakes.
Mars atmospheric pressure stands at roughly one quarter that of Earth. The data underscore the thin, tenuous Martian air affecting exploration and potential habitats.
Fragmentary text describes birth figures and a geographic survey in Scotland. Mentions Tarbats Neas Ross-shire and River Beauly with distances thirty nine miles and twenty one miles. References Kinnaird's head Abep degashira and Dunvalisbay heads Caithness in a broader sense.
Probate court in Bristol receives a will for Joseph Kerr deceased. A date of September 6, 1922, at 10:80 A.M. is set for consideration in the Probate Court Room. Notice to interested parties will be published weekly for fourteen days in the Bristol Phoenix.
August 16 1922 notice reports Bristol Estate Court appoints an administrator for Mary Louise Colt late of Bristol and directs all creditors to file claims within six months from the date of notice in the Bristol court clerk's office. The announcement includes qualification details and dates of postings.
In Bristol probate court on August 17 1922 Mildred L Pollock a minor over fourteen chose George T Pollock of Bristol as guardian of her person and estate. The court referred the matter to September 5 1922 at 10 30 AM and ordered publication of notice for ten days in the Bristol Phoenix.
The Bristol probate court notes Amos S. Gorham executor petitions to sell all or part of Seraphine W. Place’s real estate in Warwick to cover insufficient personal estate, listing a 5000 square foot Lot with dwelling. Hearing set for September 5, 1922, at 10:30 AM. notice to run fourteen days in Bristol Phoenix.
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