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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1923
Page
3
In the Balkans women tend goats and cattle on rocky slopes where trousers are needed for ease. A curious note mentions Japanese barbers who clean ears with cotton padded needles. Another oddity notes local dialects where "ask" sounds like "aisk" and "stomping" retains its form.
The text links high war debts and heavy taxes to crying babies in England, suggesting strain on families. It then shifts to Thorn Lake in eastern Oregon where walls in a lake bed may indicate a prehistoric city, and a new investigation seeks natural versus human origins.
The admiral rank began in France in 1284 and spread to England soon after. In the United States Navy, the first rear admirals were commissioned in 1862. Only David Farragut and George Dewey have been appointed admirals.
A Londoner profits by collecting corks from hotel wine bottles. He sorts the corks and returns them to wine merchants earning up to 10 cents per cork for certain kinds. The terse article notes the small income from this unusual round.
The bell in the Congregational church at Wiscasset Maine contained fifteen pounds of metal from a Paul Revere cast bell that once hung in the church tower. The original church burned in 1907 and the Revere bell was destroyed in the fire.
A Bristol carpenter Peleg Card testifies Doan's Pills relieve backache and kidney troubles quickly. The ad urges readers to buy Doan's Pills from dealers, noting the product is from Foster Milburn Co of Buffalo New York and priced at 0 cents.
A Bath patrol officer testified he heard a torrent of expletives from a house for an hour in sleep, leading to the occupant being brought before the police court. The man claimed he had been swearing in his sleep.
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