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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1927
Page
4
A fragmented health column argues constipation harms kidneys and heart, warns against auto-intoxication, and links winter fashion to health risks. It critiques low shoes, silk stockings, and tight hats, urging light head covering and warm attire for health. Next Week LUMPS
A column reflects on Jean Phillipe Worth’s fame as a Paris dressmaker who dressed queens and empresses, then pivots to notes on radio static, future science, aviation progress, and debates on Christmas language, poison research, and national defense. It references Sir Oliver Lodge Marconi Millikin and President Coolidge.
Tasmanian osmiridium production has surged to two thirds of world output with a new Adams River field opening in remote Tasmanian bush. Mining is primitive. workers face tropical rains, mud and fires while hopes rise for richer deposits beyond the current field.
Beekeepers in British Columbia weigh a plan to shift hive operations. The inventor aims to harvest two crops per season by keeping bees active through summer, then resting them in winter. If adopted, the method could alter traditional seasonal beekeeping patterns.
A historical notice notes that ten ships lack wireless on a voyage to Marye. with only one of the missing vessels without wireless last year. The text argues the 1600 ton rule pressure caused most to lack wireless. a ship and crew were lost at sea and others were rescued.
Professor Alva Drezero of Colorado State Experiment Station reports to the American Chemical Society on irrigation experiments. Early watering when wheat is young reduces yield but raises final grain quality, while late-stage irrigation increases water use without improving food value.
Visitors in Philadelphia treated Bell's new device as a toy at the centennial expo. Many believed it was manned from a basement to produce sounds. People scrutinized floors under instruments hoping to locate a hoax source while officials slowly recognized its significance.
A motorist asks for directions and Gap John explains a joking route past his house on a road to Tamlinville, describing a wife a dozen children dogs and hogs hidden beneath the house, promising a comical signal “Poo-wig Poo-wig” to scare them into lifting the house.
A Philadelphia engineer forecasts midocean hotels and eight 100 acre seadromes beneath the sea for Atlantic City to Plymouth air service. He envisions 30 hour voyages aboard superplanes landing at floating fields with fuel food and meteorological bureaus stored underwater.
Fragmentary text mixes references to lese majeste with garbled names and phrases. It appears to describe court or press commentary and a stray remark about an anesthetic used by nature, ending with a general warning about breathing and carbon dioxide in injury.
A device called the signograph allows duplicate signatures by writing the master name once while the pen strokes align and print simultaneously. Earlier crude tools by the U S treasurer could sign multiple documents with one signing stroke, a method now refined for government papers and social payments.
In New York's financial district a noon daily traffic closure creates a quiet zone. Clerks and stenographers from nearby broker offices stroll the streets as Trinity Church chimes mark the hour for return to work.
A double ring of pure gold with twelve indentations on each side was discovered in a rock tomb on Malta. Reported to the Archeological Institute of America, the ring likely aided a sea going galley design and may have served to secretly dispatch business messages between merchants of the ancient Phoenician world.
The text traces the origins of bookkeeping from pre thirteenth century merchants in Italy France and Spain to the Italian traders of Genoa Florence and Venice. Luca Pacioli published in 1494 the first systematic treatise on double entry which later became the standard form before single entry.
A Greek visitor who declined cure to flame disease was chosen patron of crip ples and led a monastic government after certifying the Sigurany century. He became head of a religious community renowned for its austere rule.
The innkeeper Boniface appears in George Farquhar's Renux Stratagem as a sleek jolly man allied with highwaymen Pathfinder Maga and others. The snippet suggests a comic scene involving rogues and a wily host.
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