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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1925
Page
4
The piece contrasts sensational fiction with real police work. It notes detectives vary in appearance while stressing that genuine inquiry relies on sound reasoning, painstaking investigation, and solid evidence. It argues verdicts hinge on provable facts, not imagined intuition.
In a Kansas farm childhood and Michigan lumber camp schooling, Frank I Cobb evolves from teacher to editor to the man chosen by Joseph Pulitzer in New York. Cobb’s forward view drives rapid promotions as he speaks to millions through print, shaping a better world.
Eugene Foster, director of the Indianapolis Foundation, was in his office when a stranger asked about cement. Foster clarified that although he is in the foundation business, the non cement kind is meant, and the exchange highlights a playful misinterpretation.
The corner stone of a new New York hospital will hold a film reel of doctors performing operations, glass stained specimens of disease bacteria, a collection of drugs deemed specific cures, and a record of currently untreatable diseases for posterity, to be examined a century hence.
A brisk messenger boy delivered a telegram to police headquarters and shocked Chief Herman Rikhoff with a hearty backslap. Rikhoff eyes the youth and offers a dry remark about the boy’s future prospects as the encounter ends.
A fragment lists numerous beliefs tied to cows, birds, and omens among southern Black communities. It claims a cow’s belled cry signals death, a twofold bellows predicts a death in two days, a tew crow signals visitors, and a crow outside the door foresees sudden removal or departure.
Walter Pater argues that true scholarship eschews blunt instruction and embraces self restraint. He praises frugal, precise prose that maximizes meaning in each sentence and rewards the reader with a clear, well spaced argument.
Embarrassing Faira, a hustling housekeeper, styles her own hair at home for dances. On a busy Saturday she leaves town with her hair up in kids and a hat over it. A sudden gust at Meridian and Washington streets snatches her hat, delivering the most embarrassing five minutes of her life.
Russia again enters the egg business with the soviet government the German firm Seyferth and the council of the people's commissaries coordinating egg exports. First year 400 carloads rising to 1 000 in later years with a minimum 15 percent profit guaranteed, totaling about 750000 gold rubles. Prior to the war eggs were a major export with 1913 shipments totaling 3 484 milliards eggs making up 64 percent of world exports.
A professor asserts understanding of what becomes of a fight and how it ends. He hints at solving the ancient question of pins’ fate while others mock the idea with a schoolboy’s reply that pins eventually become terrapins on earth.
The article notes four automobiles per mile of public road in the United States. Texas leads states with 167000 miles of road, Oklahoma has 184000 miles, and North Dakota 106520 miles, highlighting the high car density.
The text discusses fear as a protective instinct, controllable by reason, with panic spreading through crowds like an infection. It notes greater courage in controlling fear, explores origins of reasoned fear versus primitive panic, and cites earthquakes, theatre audiences, wars, and disasters as contexts where panic has influenced outcomes and lives.
Constable Sam Slackputter witnesses a Michigan corn popper vehicle crash through Professor Pussiey’s lot fence, uproot a lilac, and flip onto its back. Driver claims route to Allegash as onlookers question the path in a Kansas City Star report.
Seward dispatch reports fur farmers fear both bald and golden eagles along Alaska's coast. The bald eagle remains the only one with a $1 bounty per the act, while golden eagles receive no bounty. George C. Cotter recently killed a seven foot wing span golden eagle. Farmers warn eagles could prey on blue foxes if rabbit numbers decline. The birds are seen chasing rabbits as they expand their range.
American scientist Dr. Robert Goddard announces a preliminary summer test of a five foot tall rocket with a six inch diameter. The device will carry explosive charges ignited at intervals to provide propulsion and acceleration as it hauls a motion toward the moon, a 239000 mile target. If successful, the experiment could advance his attempt to reach the moon.
In a rural tale from Cappers Weekly a man named Jefferson Lee sells a mule to Washington Jackson with a gentle animal guarantee. Mrs Lee confronts him claiming the mule is a devil and will strike Jackson, while Jeff defends the warranty saying he will not return anything if the mule kicks Jackson.
December 29 1924 Bristol probate court petitions by Industrial Trust Administrator Eliza D Chace estate notes debts funeral costs and legal fees exceed assets proposes selling portion of Lot 2 on Assessors Plat No 2 on Hope Street Bristol to raise funds. Sale set for January 18 1925 at 10 30 A M in Bristol Court Room with notices published weekly in the Phoenix.
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