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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 19, 1929
Page
3
The Missionary Herald notes native medical training reshaping Africa and cites Louis France’s humorous scene of a medical assistant challenging a witch doctor. The assistant exposes disease through a microscope, asserting scientific knowledge and diminishing witch doctor influence.
The article notes many bullock carts on Spanish roads with drivers napping in hammocks beneath tall vehicles. It argues slower travel contrasts with fast sales pitches by auto dealers and suggests less progressive nations resist speed.
The Real 7 offers to parody the rhyme man with a claim of burying everything under the sun including his woman’s work, as noted in Home Companion.
A promising Bristol boys band showed notable progress under director Ferdinand Iasiello during a Friday rehearsal. Forty members practiced marches including Our Director Washington Post and Connecticut, ahead of a June debut at Academy Hall with room to grow.
The text outlines four stages of learning infancy youth strength and old age. It contrasts childhood growth with youth maturity and later decline, presenting learning as a life cycle described by the author Racon.
The article notes that the efficiency derived from one gallon of gasoline in an automobile varies widely from 15 percent to 25 percent depending on many conditions.
A reflection on seeking wise counsel, especially when self love could bias judgment. The author urges consulting trusted friends to obtain guidance that preserves integrity and sound decision making.
The Bristol Train of Artillery was chartered by the General Assembly on June 16 1794 to operate independently under the Governor in active service. It saw action in the Revolutionary War the War of 1812 and the Civil War with members serving in Dartmoor prison Spanish American War and World War I forming Rhode Island National Guard elements. The group is the third oldest Rhode Island military organization with Harry Watmuff as General Floor Director and Capt Fred M Straight as assistant.
A series of birth notices from Fall River and Bruno detail newborn sons. John to Mr and Mrs Alexander Anderson at 9 Constitution Street on Feb 13. a son to Mr and Mrs Joseph F Bruno at 204 State Street on Feb 15. a son to Mr and Mrs Potito Cassano at 14 Catherine Street on Feb 14. a son to Mr and Mrs Anthony A Moren on Hope Street on Feb 15. a son Harrys Sanford to Mr and Mrs Harry Town at Constitution Street on Sunday Feb 17.
In the town on February 16 Bridget, wife of the late Richard Corcoran, aged 70 years died. Also in the town on February 16 Frank Reis aged 56 years passed away.
The Kansas City Star reports on Dr Joseph Collins a noted neurologist and author being cross examined in an accident case where he provides medical evidence. He answers a lawyer asking if he is a neurologist with a witty reply noting he is moderately pure and altogether simple.
Joe Maytum praises the idea of the Bristol Prudence Island Fishing Club constructing another winter club house on the Cotee River in New Port Richey Florida. He envisions members enjoying the river with a skiff and outboard motor for lively outings.
Attention focuses on the lower East Coast of the Sunshine State as Col Lindbergh draws crowds. Miami moves quickly to perfect a landing field and secures a strategic position by earning the international airport designation.
Mrs Hamilton Ball of Block Island Rhode Island reached her winter residence 20 miles south of Miami alone at 74 years old and feeble. Her journey from Block Island to Stanton Connecticut then by Clyde Line ship Cherokee to New York was met by a neighbor who opened her home and drove her to her sunshine villa. She is the oldest sister of Captain.
Mrs William Smythe wife of the East Providence Town Clerk arrives with the Prudence Island family on Wednesday January 30 to spend the winter at the Smythe home on Montana avenue. Her husband plans to join about March 1.
Henry W. Remington formerly of Bristol planned and supervised a winter home on the river road. The Spanish style stucco over cement blocks features a two car rear garage, electric heating, automatic hot water heat, noiseless frigidaire, and a spacious piazza with river breezes. The interior shows plain stucco arches and dark natural trim, named Casa Al Rio for the Remingtons.
A customer and a clerk dispute a missing shirt with the clerk citing laundry marks. The customer reports frayed collar and cuffs and two holes burned in the back, as described in The Pathfinder.
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