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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1924
Page
4
Examinations for advanced credit and to remove conditions will be given Wednesday August 27 at 10 o clock in Colt Memorial High School. A statement from an approved tutor is required from pupils who wish to take the examination.
Judge Edward L. Leahy presided at yesterday's probate session. The estate of Anna Maria Spata petitioned for Angela Bruno as administratrix with bond set at 1500 and appraiser Thomas H Byrnes approved. The estate of Thomas Henry Mowry had final account approved. The Mars W F Howe petition to file and record a foreign will and letters testamentary to Alfred G BS Steele and Tous F Kirk was allowed.
In a tense Bristol County amateur final the Employed Boys overcame a 5-3 deficit to beat St Johns 9-5. Harvey Gladue powered the late innings with key hits driving in tying and go ahead runs as Bristol seized the crown.
Employed Boys 9 St Johns 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 x base hits include Andrade Gladue Vitullo. Runs by Joseph Cirillo Andrade W Gladue Pereira Vitullo Regnere LaFlamme D Lanoue. Three-base hits Andrade H Gladue. Two-base hits W Gladue D Lanoue G Lanoue Vitullo. Sac fly W Gladue. Stolen bases Regnere 2 Smuts Sivigney. Marshall 6 strikeouts LaFlamme 4. Bases on balls 4 each. Double plays Ponte to W Gladue Sousa to Ponte Sivigney to Smus Rippel to Smus. Hit by pitch Andrade. Wild pitch Marshall Balk LaFlamme. Time 1:27.
Goldwyn Cosmopolitan presents King Vidor production Wild Oranges starring Frank Mayo Virginia Valli and Ford Sterling plus The Forty-th Door serial and assorted comedies cartoons Wednesday and Thursday George Larkin Apache Dancer with Miss Newell Save it with Diamonds Out of the Inkwell Hodge Podge Cameo Comedy Friday The Empire Builders on the Dark Continent with Rex Baker and Boom-Perang episode 9 or The Telephone Girl Series plus other short features and entertainment
In this town on August 18 Le Baron Bradford Colt will lie in state Wednesday from 10 to 12 and funeral services are planned for 3 pm at his residence Linden Place Hope Street Relatives and friends are invited to attend.
The Wednesday matinee is skipped as a tribute to the late Senator LeBaron B. Colt. Mon and Tue feature Tom Meighan in The Confidence Man, a sharp melodrama about a clever crook in a small town, with Virginia Valli as the leading woman. Icebound headlines tomorrow at Pastime Theatre with Richard Dix and Lois Wilson in a human drama of inheritance and transformation, praised as a standout production. Friday brings Not a Drum Was Heard featuring Charles Jones in a Romance of the Old West with themes of sacrifice and devotion.
A voluntary liquidation sale of the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company plant will take place Thursday and Friday starting at 10 am each day. Elenrys S Anthony & Co of Lowell MA and local auctioneer Albert Redmonds will conduct the sale on the premises. The plant and properties will be offered as a unit first and, if unsold, divided into seven parcels.
Ed Howe argues against prohibition indignation by noting the rich can obtain whisky while the poor cannot. He questions the moral stance and suggests depriving the poor of whisky would be a blessing if it reduces consumption. The piece reflects satirical social critique on liquor laws.
A thoughtful boy proclaims that injustice surrounds youth. He contrasts a boy who never swears to obey his mother yet must, with a mother who swears to obey him but never does, prompting the elderly companion to ask how this happens.
Finland pioneered handwork in primary education with a plan developed between 1858 and 1866. Sweden followed in 1872, France in 1873, England in 1886, and Germany in 1887. The United States began in New York City in 1878.
The Tahiti rite of fire walking is explained by priests and acolytes. Basalt stones from volcanic origin are porous and nonconductive. A stone heated at one end stays cool at the other, allowing ritual walkers to move across glowing surfaces with impunity.
A tale of a couple where a rich suitor deserts a poor lover. The woman starts a correspondence college for women promising beauty and charm to attract husbands. She amasses wealth and writes to her fiancé to return, but he stays away, having fallen for a former pupil who lures him back home.
A compact excerpt from a French source offers guidance on strength pride self control and virtue. It urges independence conscience and resilience while advising kindness forgiveness and hopeful faith in another life. The passage ends with a maternal exhortation to cherish loved ones and avoid evil.
The article traces the camera obscura from Battista Porta around 1560 to its role as a sketching aid, noting a 45 degree reflector and ground glass. It credits Newton with remodeling and Daguerre’s fixation of images in 1839, marking a key development toward modern photography.
The piece notes the Bible Sabbath on Saturday and the Lord's Day on Sunday for early Christians. It adds that each weekday carries a religious or cultural association with a specific region, naming Monday as Greek Sabbath Tuesday Persian Wednesday Assyrian Thursday Egyptian and Friday Turkish.
The English royal state coach, still used for ceremonies, cost nearly 38000 dollars per Horace Walpole. Coaches are a later innovation as Queen Elizabeth’s era used a springless wagon. Aristocratic ladies once rode on pillions behind relatives or servants.
A reflective exhortation on forming convictions through study and prayer, then holding them firmly to enter into understanding with others. It compares divided nations once separated by walls to an ocean that now serves as a highway, uniting peoples in sympathy.
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