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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1922
Page
4
A garbled clipping references bohemian living for a spell and mentions returning home by 1 in the morning. It includes stray phrases about a coating, wood, and diversions, with other broken bits about climate and Earth’s variation.
The Archbishop of Canterbury performs the royal marriage ceremony for a member of the royal family and is allowed the bride’s prayer book as his reward, a privilege granted for this duty.
A humorous tale features a famed English author famed for Shakespeare bound volumes. His wife reveals rats gnaw at a volume prompting the writer to quip that even the rats deem it Bacon, preserving the period voice with a witty twist.
Calcutta gave England one of her greatest novelists William Makepeace Thackeray was born there on July 18 1811 His father and grandfather served in the Indian civil service and his mother was the daughter of another servant A memorial with an inscription from Henry Esmond was unveiled ten years ago at St John Church where he was baptized in celebration of his centenary
A reminiscence recalls C. M. Bissell who ordered receipts for cash fares while in charge of Harlem railroad. A conductor committee later pressed for higher pay. Bissell asked why, and a former conductor on the committee replied that he once held the same job.
Quote by Sarah Bernhardt praising life and youth with lines about aging and dying only once, suggesting life remains new and gay and that death should not come before its time.
Dickie a six year old in a Washington family grows puzzled by discussions of current events and school topics. He asks his dad which is longer the alimentary canal or the Panama Canal.
Doctor Johnson notes that history can be shaped by enduring monuments and records while personal memory fades with time, warning that lives are only captured while knowledge remains. He emphasizes the fragility of human recollection and the need to preserve memory.
In England the term Miss was previously used only for females under ten years old and the form Mrs applied to married women. The quotation marks around Migs and Kdss indicate OCR garbling of the historical usage note.
Rhode Island State Board of Public Roads voted November 15 1922 to take portions of land in Bristol shown on Plat No 47 under Law of 1920 for highway purposes. The description lists Parcel No 1 for Narragansett Electric Lighting Company and Parcel No 2 for William W and the Heirs of Julia Perry along Hope Street with specified easterly lines and acreage about 0.064 and 0.149 acres respectively. The description and plat were recorded November 16 1922 in Bristol Town Clerk's office.
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