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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1928
Page
3
The article extols the Gullar gulls as perfect nature crafted beings suited to harsh life. It notes oil in their bodies for insulation, hollow bones for oxygen storage, and large appetites enabling them to clean near coastal waters by consuming vast amounts of food daily.
At Trinity Church the Girls' Friendly Society appointed Miss Mary Perry president for the coming year. The Senior Group named Harriet Kinder as chairman and Marion Darling as secretary, with Marion Paull as assistant secretary and Mrs Vernon Gray as treasurer. Martha Hill leads the Junior Group and Elizabeth Rounds is secretary. A Rockwell Hall YMCA bridge party supported the society with thirty five tables and prizes, fruit punch served.
Superintendent William C Hobbs announces a January 30 mid year reorganization adding a new school in the Reynolds building with Miss Helen F Campagna as teacher. The plan shifts grades one to six under a work study play system and aims to use one new school to relieve packed classrooms.
Joseph Charles Kelley son of Police Patrolman and Mrs Hugh F Kelley will be ordained Sunday in Rome after six years at the North American College. A Colt Memorial High School 1920 graduate and former class president, he studied at Holy Cross College before Rome and is expected to return to the United States in June.
The article notes flute playing has fallen out of fashion, blamed on negative depictions by eminent writers. It cites Dickens characters who play the flute as comic or unpleasant, Bulwer-Lytton and Charlotte Bronte examples, and Goethe’s verdict on early flute players as melancholy neighbors.
The leek tradition on St David's day is traced to ancient Britons’ victory colors and by some to Cadwallo’s 8383 A D field near Hatfield Chase where leeks were uprooted and worn. The leek persists but the daffodil increasingly rivals it as Wales’s emblem in modern sports and events.
The article traces buttons from ornamental origins to practical use in southern Europe during the 13th and 14th centuries and notes England's adoption in Elizabethan times. It cites 1561 as the first literary mention of the buttonhole and observes a modern shift away from buttons in women's and many garments.
Gen William Booth recounts a South African tale of mule drivers who win stubborn animals by feeding a handful of gravel. The old method unsettles the mule’s thinking, prompting the team to move forward as the gravel alters the current of their thoughts.
The village football club reorganizes with the vicar as president and a proposed secretary. The secretary feigns minutes noting the prior meeting lasted twenty five minutes, prompting amused reactions as he reads from his notebook.
The text explains a fly has thousands of compound eyes taking most of the head, with three simple eyes above the compound ones. The upper two simple eyes are farther apart in females than in males. Despite eye arrangement and head mobility, flies are not believed to have acute vision, though their visual range is broad.
In a 20th century American Magazine reflection a commentator argues that the function of woman is to serve the race and the function of man is to serve the woman and the child. The piece presents a gendered view of family duty and social responsibility.
Officers-elect of Burnside Lodge No. 34 Knights of Pythias were installed Tuesday night in Grand Army Hall. The ceremony was led by Deputy Grand Chancellor Charles E. Gillan with deputies J. C. Walsh and F. W. Kent, all from Redwood Lodge Newport. New officers include James T. Nelle as Chancellor Commander and George Moore as Vice Chancellor. Committees were named for Relief, Finance, and Social duties. Address by the installing officer followed by refreshments served by the social committee.
Company C of the Bristol Train of Artillery in joint planning with Battery C National Guard for a February 11 banquet and a Washington Ball under Company auspices. A colonial review is proposed at Guiteras Memorial School as part of lively future entertainments. Officers include Captain Arthur W. Barrett and Lieutenant George W. Warren.
The Better Business Bureau warns that tipster sheets disguise promotions for questionable stocks often tied to oil and mining ventures. Promoters use high pressure telephone selling and mail campaigns to lure investors, with many stocks showing large, misleading price swings between 1925 and 1927. Be cautious and investigate before investing.
John Grabert was re elected chief of the National India Rubber Company Fire Department at the annual meeting held Tuesday afternoon in the factory conference room. Officers chosen include Deputy Chief Daniel E. Dwyer Clerk Henry Brown Treasurer Fred Guevremont and Fire Commissioner Chris A. Ostby. Members voted to attend the Ever Ready Fire hose Company fair tomorrow night in Grand Army Hall.
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