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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1920
Page
4
Bird of Marked Peculiarities
Description of a yellow breasted chat noted for odd singing and tail movements. The bird’s song is described as grotesque and lacking merit while it flirts with tail and twists the head during flight, creating a strange appearance.
First English Opera The Siege of Rhodes Debut in 1656
In 1656 England saw The Siege of Rhodes produced as a representational stage work with recitative music. A Dictionary of National Biography writer calls it perhaps the most epoch-making play in the language and notes it was nearly the first English opera.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Rhodes
Dictionary of National Biography
Bullet hits badge shield but fails to strike officer
A bullet aimed at a Toledo policeman punctured his badge and coat without injuring him, glancing off the metal and travelling away at an angle. The officer escaped unharmed as the incident unfolded without contact to his body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Pioneer missionary Puny Fisk dies in Beyrout Syria
On October 28 1825 Puny Fisk a devout American missionary died in Beyrout Syria. Born into extreme poverty Fisk rose by self effort and became a remarkable linguist who preached in Italian French modern Greek and Arabic. For two years he supported his education on bread and milk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Famie’ Unaides
Puny Fisk
Beyrout
Syria
Fisk
Laborsi
Feebleness Tempered by Patience and Perseverance
A reflection on feebleness revealing how timidity vacillation conventionality and fretfulness of the weak test patience. It notes that well meaning people can be disappointing and cites a saying about helping a weak friend climb.
Doorway as Hidden Bookcase Creates Compact Library
An unused interior doorway is repurposed into a concealed bookcase. Lock the door and treat it as the back panel. Install shelves across the full door space or just the lower half for flexible storage.
Mimeographed booze ban backfires at Denver paper
A Denver daily editor, facing staff drunkenness, distributes mimeographed sobriety rules. A red haired staffer, angry at the insult, exposes the plan, leaving the editor drunk and sent home. The next day the city editor is replaced as the staff revels in Prohibition era antics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Suhara
Eity
Denver
Nquor
Society
Larry A. Jacobs
The
Dallas Dispatch
Opera Succeeds Bull Fight at Mexico City Arena
In a decree by President Carranza bull fights end and Teatro el Toro hosts grand opera and concerts. A famed bull called El Bonito charged horses and injured men until spectator Miguel Ballo offered sugar, calming the animal who licked it and spared him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teatro el Toro
Mexico City
Carranza
el Bonito
Miguel Ballo
Ballo
Anglo-Irish Tunnel Proposed Linking Britain and Ireland
A speculative plan envisions a 24 mile undersea tunnel from Lancashire to Antrim or the Irish coast. It would shorten transatlantic trips by about 48 hours and aid the Irish cattle trade and perishable shipping. Estimated costs range from 35 to 80 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
France
Ireland
Great Britain
Lancashire
Antrim
Irish
Farmers Outsmart Sewing-Machine Peddler
A Bangor News tale tells how a wary farmer halted a sewing machine agent by challenging him to stitch a shingle. The agent boasted of heavy work, but the farmer declined and recounted a neighbor’s wife sewing clapboard joints. The agent drove off as the farmer joked with his wife about supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rita
Bangor News
Indian Village Unearthed in New York
Auburn forester M A Cramer uncovered a buried village in Cato Cayuga county New York while digging after a woodchuck. The site has skeletons bone implements and is believed to be Iroquois era about five centuries old discovered in Nyack Evening Journal style report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. A. Cramer
Auburn City Forester
Cato
Cayuga County
New York
Nyack Evening Journal
Fourteenth Division of Red Cross Serves Across Seas
Enthusiastic members of the American Red Cross outside the continental U S form the Fourteenth Division with 80 808 paid members in 1920 They maintain chapters in many nations and territories and provide home service disaster relief and support for sailors and Americans abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
United States
Stars and Stripes
Fourteenth
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Virgin
Philippines
Guam
Yap
Red Cross
Argentine
Bolivia
Brazil
Canal Zone
Chile
China
Costa Rica
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
England
France
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
Japan
Manchuria
Netherlands
Nicaragua
Paraguay
Peru
Liberia
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Turkey
Uruguay
Venezuela
Virgin Islands
Svar
Red Cross Aids Disabled World War Veterans
The American Red Cross runs a broad program aiding World War disabled veterans in Public Health Service hospitals and through Federal Board for Vocational Education in training. Workers assist from admission to discharge, provide convalescent housing, recreation, and Home Service follow up, and help with mental health, compensation, loans, and appeals. The Institute for the Blind trains blinded veterans for suitable vocations with Red Cross support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Red Cross
United States
Federal Board For Vocational Education
Red Cross
The
Bureau of War Pisk Insurance
Federal Board
Home Service
American Red Cross Institute For the Blind
Baltimore
Iberian Red Cross fund aid for malaria fight
The Iberian chapter of the American Red Cross comprised of Americans living in Spain contributed 480 dollars to a fund raised by the Spanish Red Cross and the League of Red Cross Societies to combat malaria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ald
Spanish Red Cross
American Red Cross
Spain
League of Red Cross Societies
Births In This Town Reported For August
In this town on August 22 a daughter to Mr and Mrs Matthew Chionchio of Doyle Ih Retine Harbor Michigan. On August 21 a son Harry Robert to Harry and Clara Doyle. Also in this town on August 23 a son to Mr and Mrs Matthew Roderick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chionchio
Matthew Phionchio
Doyle
Retine Harbor
Michi
Harry Robert
Harry Ant Clara Doyle
Roderick
Matthew Roderick
Metcalf and Jones Wed in Warren Ceremony
Norman Metcalf of this town and Miss Emma Marie Jones of Warren were married August 21 in a ceremony conducted by Rev. H. Ws Warren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Metcalf—Jonz—thwartéen
H. ‘Ws ‘Warren
Norman Metcalf
Emma Marie Jones
Obituary notices for Brown and Hoar
John Thurston Brown of Barrington dies at 77 on August 22 1920. Nellie Child Hoar of Warren dies August 22 1920 after being the daughter of the late Charles and Maria Mathilda Child Hoar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brown
Barrington
John Thurston Brown
Hoar
Warren
Nellie Child Hoar
Charles and
Maria Mathilda Child Hoar
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New Fall River Road
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Harry Kandarien
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Fourteenth” Division
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Sam the Shoeman
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Isaac B. Munro
Garfield Avenue
Dorchester Mutual
Boston
E. L. Watson & CO
Industrial Trust, Co
Providence
R. L
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4 & Johnson Son
Sherman’s Pharmacy
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Constitution ST
Clark’s Express
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J. H. Young
Robert J. McKay
G.W. Simmons
E. W. Weaver
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