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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1917
Page
4
A France execution crowd scenes unfolds as a prisoner on his coffin carriage demands a stay to reveal accomplices. He identifies a joker in the crowd, prompting a scuffle with gendarmes as the scaffold awaits.
Accuser recalls a scene of abject fervor as a joker entertains with fear then the condemned man declares the official that the man is innocent. The convict challenges the crowd noting the humor in suffering and hints at testing the jokester under similar circumstances.
William Weightman, a famed penny-plain millionaire, lent cash freely to dozens who treated him as a bank. The Philadelphia industrialist kept vast sums in fireproof safes and paid debts with cash, not checks, while sharing a human touch and a taste for fine flowers.
A Philadelphia Public Ledger writer notes handwriting can reveal crooks from honest people and distinguishes dull from smart minds in penmanship. The piece cites presidents Polk and Washington, Lincoln, Adams, Madison, and Taylor, comparing signature flair to perceived bravery.
The text discusses cork oak harvesting in Spain and Canada, noting bark yields from fifty pounds to five hundred, and mentions the cork bark elm nickname for a related tree with ghastly looks. It states the tree has no bark value despite similarities to cork oak.
A judge laments that norrige today is too easy and observes young men marry for looks. He warns that comparing current brides to women married ten or twenty years ago would reveal what kind of wife to choose. The remark notes many want to “kill the game.”
Ferdinand Drabina, an emigrant who came to the United States in 1907 and worked as a walter, hotel porter, miner, and banker’s clerk, was sentenced to two and a half years for falsifying orders to divert money from Austrian banks. He copied drafts to pay himself, mailed them to Austria, and after traveling to Trieste and Ostroglione he used apparent wealth to win a local girl’s trust before being exposed by police.
A fragmented 19th century chronicle notes Zachary Taylor’s rise from veteran of the Mexican War to Whig presidential nominee and commander in key conflicts. It recalls his early frontier service, battles at Fort Harrison, Lake Champlain era actions, and contrasts with figures like Woodrow Wilson.
Captain Ernest Towse V2C of the Gordon Highlanders, blinded in the Boer War, serves in French field hospitals writing letters for wounded men and doing charitable work. He has learned typewriting and embodies Christian perseverance amid tragedy, refusing despair and continuing to aid others.
The Christian Science Monitor notes that telephone users are taught courtesy by ads. Courtesy starts when the bell rings and includes quick answers like Corydon 5543 Rudolph speaking. It calls for clear identification and proper salutations before business conversations begin.
The northernmost ostrich farm in the world lies in a Stockholm suburb. The birds were brought there last year and wintered healthily in the open until late May when the females began laying eggs. Ostrich eggs hatch in six weeks.
An examination of how the elephant came to symbolize the Republican Party tracing claims to Tom Nast and early political cartoons. It notes earlier associations with the tiger for Tammany Hall and the donkey for Democrats, with the camel cited for Prohibitionists and a 1874 adoption of the elephant to mark timid GOP voters.
Experts from Pennsylvania colleges were asked why strychnine poisons crows but not chickens. Officials noted trials showing quail were unaffected, while a man reported crows ate bait and birds died. chemists deferred to university researchers for explanation.
A Minneapolis saloon visit ends with a man named Johnson arrested for vagrancy after he produced a lap robe from an unknown seeker. The judge contradicts a flustered explanation and sentences him to thirty days in jail.
Harvard students increasingly seek work while studying as wartime pressures reduce employment success and earnings. The piece notes broad job variety among youth, willingness to take practical gigs, and college and public opinion supporting work to cover tuition amid national upheaval.
The article argues John Cabot, sailing from Bristol with Henry VII’s patent, was the first to reach the North American mainland on June 4, setting England’s claim in North America. It contrasts Cabot with Americus Vespucius and notes Cabot’s single small vessel Matthew.
The piece extols Dr. J George Becht and outlines a career in Lycoming County schools and Clarion State Normal, emphasizing devotion to education. It argues that reverence for law in schools shapes children from discipline to equal treatment, and criticizes misused liberty as overrated in a free country.
An isolated pond west of Promontory Point Utah forms a brine reservoir fed by Great Salt Lake during high water and concentrated by evaporation in summer. The pink color, seen in salt ponds, stems from organisms thriving in saturated brines, and disappears with winter rain or fresh water. The Southern Pacific company experimented with preserving ties and piles by soaking them in the pond.
A scene on a club stage shows confidence as a catalyst for public speaking. A woman challenged another to prove talk ability by speaking and demonstrated how practice can turn timidity into a compelling speaker. The exchange underscores belief in self confidence as a pathway to prominence.
A Texas paper misfires on a parrot arrest tale when Mrs. Parrot insists the bird is innocent and asks for the reporter Crow’s name, exposing a humorous mix up. The column features bits from Little Betty and a Cobden quote on labor midway.
North China Daily Herald notes elastic fashion in Kiangsu Province with a mix of Western and local styles. Men wear varied hats from fur brim to scarlet and verdigris green. women see switched skirts and stove pipe hats in a city gate fashion plate.
Indian herders on the Navajo reservation south of Bluff report finding a mummy of an ancient cliff dweller. Frank Slyde of Bluff arranged the purchase, receiving a nearly perfect mummy, a musk ratlike skin stuffed with tobacco leaves, two lime rock pipes, a wound reed basket, sandals, and a small statured figure whose features resemble modern Chinese.
Bowman of the Kansas board of control argued that probate judges should enforce marriage limits on epileptics and the feeble minded to curb social evils. He criticized juvenile courts for reform but noted jail systems fail to produce lasting change and cited a 1904 to 1910 rise in mental hospital patients. There are more insane in the United States than college students.
A wounded Warwickshire corporal recalls the night Prussian Guards attacked near Ypres. An Irishman from the King's Liverpool regiment left his post to warn the defenders, dashing toward the danger despite being shot in both legs. His timely action allowed the guard to be alerted.
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