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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 22, 1927
Page
3
In Kilburn a mother with iron will recalls her son’s rise to fame. She notes his choice to write rather than stay a schoolmaster and the public’s doubt about paying for writing. The piece, from From the New Judea, reflects on family and career.
The earliest European fireworks appeared in Florence about 561 years ago in a crude display by a Florentine inventor. Grand scale shows only arose late in the 16th century with England's 1697 display for the peace of Rysurck and a 1748 London display after Aix-la-Chapelle. Grand celebrations in America began after the Revolution to mark Independence Day.
An authority asserts Cinderella’s tale rests on history, dating Rhodopis to 2000 years BCE and recounting how a sandal carried by wind to an Egyptian king leads to marriage. The legend centers on Rhodopis bathing in the Nile and a sandal fitting the king’s search.
The article describes four large Alaskan tribes each with distinct animal symbols. Crests persist across marriages and mark offspring of the original founders. An Indian visitor finds shelter by the crest house, and a totem pole can sell for about $2000, depending on exchange.
Chavis Kaye relays a Roosevelt anecdote from his Tuskegee Institute visit. He greeted the staff and met the assistant librarian and her daughter. He smiled and joked naming the girl Miss Rivulet, reflecting his well known charm.
A western politician names his cousin as smoke inspector for a rural district. He reports after one week that he has inspected the district’s smoke for the week ending May 31 and found plenty of smoke, all apparently of good quality.
Too Easy Cole Black confronts a preliminary conference with counsel asking for an alibi. The lawyer pushes for whereabouts at the offense time, but Black blurts out he fears the discovery. The exchange highlights tension as the defense seeks to clarify location and timeline.
A Connecticut kitchen shows a woman’s weekly tested recipes stored in a card catalogue. Pineapple dishes appear among breakfast and luncheon ideas, including French Toast with Pineapple and Deviled Pineapple. The system yields fifty two new dishes yearly.
London Opinion suggests odd methods to remove mice by taunting them. The piece details instructive steps such as approaching the hole whistling, frying pan striking, and delivering harsh moralizing to the vermin. It cites the Boston Transcript for further consequences and jokes about disdain.
A Thomas Fuller quotation notes that translators of old houses are bound to the original creator's vision and warns against tearing down solid structures to build worse. Yet builders who raise new houses must craft them well, for both plan and order matter.
In historical summaries Li Po is hailed as the greatest of the Tang dynasty poets among about two thousand three hundred poets, with a surviving anthology spanning nine hundred books and about fifty thousand poems from the seventh to ninth centuries.
The Fort Wayne News Sentinel reports a routine unusual count at month end showing unanticipated expenses. The item highlights a surprising financial strain and the potential for savings if the expenses had been avoided.
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