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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 29, 1931
Page
4
Fragments describe a Friday December 28 1906 town after Christmas with light snowfall. The ground was covered with snow but insufficient for good ice skating on ponds. Young residents had a chance to try new pledges amid the pale winter scene.
Miss Mae P Rounds hosted a Christmas festival Saturday evening in Rockwell Hall Bristol building. A handsome tree framed the readable program featuring piano duets by Veronica Brown and Mae Rounds and Velma Herrmann with Mae P Rounds, vocal solos by Fred Gardner and Bessie Carey, clarinet and piano solos, and readings by Mae Hackett and JamesGarvin.
A Bristol Naval Reserve basketball squad forms with players C. C. Duffy Wm A Wardwell R Brightman George McGann George Gladding and possibly Jack Simister. A first team at the Y M C A will be selected next week and efforts are underway to add Simister. The season also features Wampanoag Encampment No 9 SOCF holding last night’s elections with officers named and installation planned for Thursday.
Evientay January 24 1907 reports a Christmas dinner at the Belvedere Hotel with hosts Mr and Mrs Harriet DeWalf DuVillard and other guests. Attendees included Mrs Kin oln Harrison Miss Claudia Tocker Harold DeWolf and B D Beewell Jr. P. Biedh returns to Middle Towns Gen Tomorrow. Mr Breen works as a bootmaker at Goodyear Rubber Company factory.
C A Johnson cut part of his ice crop yesterday at Littles Narrows. The ice measured nine inches thick with some patches ten inches deep.
A historic church supper guide offers two main menus for fifty people with options to scale up. It lists Ham Loaf with Potatoes, Jellied Carrot and Pineapple Salad, Butter Coffee Rolls, Frosted Chocolate Cake, Cold Slaw, Oven Baked Beans, and Fig Pudding, plus detailed quantities and cooking steps for each dish.
Dr Angelo leads Saints with 14 points and 293 total in a 2 to 1 victory over Walker's Hikers. Bobby Suzman sets a new low score with 1 over the minimum. Motion pictures cited as easier on the eyes than books, per NSPB official.
Sculptor Auguste Rodin faced a false accusation that he used a cast of Ilfe as an original statue. To prove his skill, Rodin created a larger version of the same figure to demonstrate his mastery in modeling.
Only a few tickets remain for the January 7 benefit concert by the Bristol Train of Artillery Band. Proceeds go to the Bristol Rotary Club to aid its food station for undernourished local school children. The program features band selections, contralto solos by Mrs Elsie Lovell Hawkins and Overseas Male Quartet, plus solo numbers and operatic excerpts.
Goldenrod Troop 2 hosted a Christmas party at John Post Reynolds School with country songs dances and recitations. Mrs Reginald Dimond led carols while council members Mrs Henry Wood Mrs George Mullard Mrs Norton Zinderstein and Mrs Raymond S Brightman assisted and played piano.
Members of St Michael’s Church present their annual Christmas Festival this evening at the Parish House directed by Miss Gertrude Grice with Miss Viola Anderson as assistant. Santa Claus will distribute gifts from a lighted tree after carols and the cast includes Wizard Robert Tourigney and other named roles.
The article traces forks from primitive pronged twigs to early eating implements. It notes forks remained curiosities until about 308 years ago and were unknown at the courts of Francis I Henri II and Louis XVI. It mentions early uses and a 11th century note of a doge's wife using a small golden fork.
The report lists park wildlife tallies such as 8,000,000 bats and 84,344 deer with 20 wolves, 11,510 elk, 60 wild cats, and 138,879 mountain sheep. It also notes bear totals with counts by park and 37 species of beasts overall, including 80 skunks, 434 mink, and 494 mountain lions.
Cordova in Spain lies along the Guadalquivir with orange trees and olive groves stretching to the Sierra Morena. The cathedral, once a Moorish mosque and now a Christian church, features 800 pillars of porphyry granite serpentine and jasper in a forest of stone. A great Roman bridge spans the river, built under Emperor Augustus.
A massive searchlight at the Malwollve building in UChicago rises 5 feet above the penthouse. The beacon uses two lights: an upper beacon producing a beam 36 inches wide and rotating twice per minute, and a lower parabolic light emitting 1 100 000 candlepower fixed to a visiting airmen device. At 55% miles the Lindbergh beacon’s brightness equals a full moon.
Scientists theorize cosmic rays arrive from space due to their equal distribution from all directions and increased intensity at higher altitudes.
A Woman's Home Companion piece highlights magnetic women who maintain mental agility and a strong physique into advanced years, celebrating resilience and enduring vitality.
In 1670 the king's cofferer saved a sinking boat near Chelsea and vowed a bell. He funded a church bell to ring every evening from November to March between 5 and 6 p.m. The bell stood until 1922 when the clock was restored as a beacon for travelers.
A British museum manuscript notes five early Cornwall pawnbrokers formed a united group to finance the crown jewels during King John’s era. The flag design features fifteen yellow balls on black, symbolizing unity with the motto One and All.
The article recounts Emma Hamilton repelled by Sir William Hamilton for her liaison with Lord Nelson. After his death Nelson left her £500 a year and control of £4000 for their daughter Horatio, but her spendthrift lifestyle led to debt imprisonment in 1813 and eventual death in Calais on January 14, 1815.
A historical note clarifies the saying possession is nine points of the law is a simplification. It asserts possession is a major advantage in real estate disputes and that the original form used eleven points, reflecting common folklore without strict legal basis.
A remark by George Borrow on locating true Spaniards in remote villages rather than ports. He argues village life reveals gravity of deportment and chivalry, with everyday speech echoing grandiose expressions admired in romance, even if in modern society they seem exaggerated.
A concise note on why yawning occurs during sleep and how neck relaxation and horizontal position aid heart function. The passage suggests yawning is a primitive therapeutic behavior observed in humans and many animals, while insects may not yawn due to different fatigue toxin processing.
Providence broker J Irving McDowell told the Lions Club that security prices should rise by next spring after wartime preparations and that propaganda in France seeks to discredit the gold standard. He explained bull and bear markets and noted bear operators selling below par amid the 1929 crash recap. President James J. Lanzie announced no regular meeting next week but members would donate their dinner charge to feed undernourished children. an executive committee meeting was planned at Lanzire’s home.
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