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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1928
Page
3
A Bristol Council No. 379 Knights of Columbus committee is arranging a New Year’s Party at the K of C Home for Monday evening December 3. Members include George H. Baldwin James F Meiggs Edward E LeClerc James F Wylie J Francis Connell and Grand Knight John G DesLauriers ex officio.
Horace M Reynolds a blind former resident died at his Providence home from rat poison mistaken for cough medicine. He and wife Carrie Cole Reynolds were observing their 47th birthday at 105 Bogman Street. Funeral in Providence and burial in North Cemetery, with his mother residing in Riverside.
A fragment describes a teamster dining plainly with bully beef in a tin, tomato sauce, and bread. He opens the can with an axe, bites torn chunks, and gulps cold water, all in an unadorned, fuss-free style. The scene reflects rustic practicality rather than ceremony.
Versatile Publishers The Centralzhat, the central publishing house of the Soviet republics, tackles a big job printing textbooks in the tongues of many small nations. Six alphabets serve forty two dialects including Russian Latin Hebrew Arabic Goth e and East Gothic.
A riddle worded as a family maze asks who the speaker is after a sequence of marriages among himself, his best girl, her mother, and his father. The narrator deduces each relation, concluding an impossible loop where he becomes his own grandfather.
The hostess asks the youngest boy to say grace at a children's party. The boy hesitates and asks what grace is. He recalls his father’s response after a good dinner and says Richard is himself again to express it.
Two new plats of house lots have been filed in the Town Clerk's office opening land on Bristol Neck and Metacom avenue for home seekers. The Colonial plat on Bristol Neck includes the Sweet Estate and a new Colonial Road linking Hope street to Beach Road with 45 lots. The Borges Plat lies north of Hopeworth and Metacom, creating 68 lots with River street Academy avenue and Jenkins street providing access.销售 ads note lots available.
A USDA scientist notes domestic guinea fowl spread across the United States shows little urge to revert to wild life. They thrive in islands like Jamaica and Cuba where introduced long ago, though mongoose predation limits numbers on Barbuda. In the Lesser Antilles, the birds persist since a 200 year old game preserve. In the southeastern states recent introductions remain to be seen.
A scientist studying bird songs and nursebirds reports the African beb has a vocabulary of about 300 words and an alphabet of 24 letters. The bird delivers a short speech of around 20 words lasting 14 seconds each morning, then may not reuse a word for weeks. Its daily routine is steadier than that of humans.
The passage describes ancient maple sugar making in North America by Indigenous peoples before Europeans. It explains tapping trees with a tomahawk, directing sap into receivers, collecting in birch bark dishes, and boiling in earthen kettles to yield a dark syrup highly prized by early writers.
A mother asks why Margaret plays only one toy while a father says novelty fades. The child, examining tea, answers she is looking for the novelty that wears off, showing a quiet, humorous peek at childish perception.
A Field and Stream writer explains sheds disappear from woods as rodents eat them. The article notes teeth marks from mice chipmunks squirrels and porcupines and states many sheds are partly eaten or nowhere to be found.
The funeral for Gabriele Savino, an early Bristol Terrace home builder, was held yesterday from his West Street home. A requiem mass at the Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel was celebrated by Rev Fr G Buffo, with interment in St Mary's Cemetery. Floral offerings came from relatives and friends.
A terse reflection on moral causality from Emerson. The passage warns that harming others and hoarding privilege isolates the self from joy and heaven, asserting that knocking others down yields loss to the doer. The author notes the futility of treating people as objects.
Guidance on storing corn and meat suggests cool dry conditions and tight covering to exclude insects. Applies to mill shop and home, with water ground meat spoiling faster than granulated meat. Milled only in small quantities as needed.
A tiny rodent performs a show in a Sydney hovel window, dodging between corners to spring onto a window pane. Onlookers crowd around as the clever creature is praised as the best and cheapest attraction ever seen by the dealer.
A short aphorism from the Barnes Alabama Timey Herald notes that people worrying about money can always find a doctor to relieve them of that burden, reflecting a cynical view of expenses and medical aid.
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