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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1925
Page
3
A Warren display highlights a range of one ton and heavier chassis with heavy overload capability. Visitors can enter a guessing contest with a substantial prize to be awarded Saturday night. Dute Wilcox Flint offers a discount plan on all repair work and a Health Protection Plan for deferred payment buyers this month.
In Providence the case of State vs Thomas Caswell for assault with a revolver on Francesco Tommasso was continued one week. Bail raised to 2000. Caswell remanded if failure to post. Other docket items include auto cases, trespass, and book-account judgments.
Goldenrod Troop Bristol Girl Scouts met at John Post Reynolds School with Emma Slinger presiding. They voted to hold a food sale Feb 21 in a vacant Mount Hope block store and to hike next Saturday. The troop meets again at 7 pm at Hope and Bradford to attend the Pastime Theatre. They will collect books and magazines for Harlem county Kentucky children.
BE Johnson and AT&T organize regular radio recitals featuring renowned artists. The plan, a shift from jazz, aims to raise radio music standards and child development through high quality performances. Stars listed include Alda Bauer Bori de Gogorz de Lifra Felita Gordon Jeritza Martinelli Matzenaur McCormack Ponselle Schumann-Heink Scotti and the Flonzaley Quartet.
The Providence Employed Boys defeated Bristol 57 to 17 on a larger floor with Chamberlain scoring eight field goals and Butler four baskets. Bristol’s Rebello and Gallagher were Bristol’s top players as Providence prepares for a Friday night rematch against St Anns.
Yesterday two fires drew Providence firefighters. A motor truck from J H Preston Co on Hope Street burned and was towed for repairs after chemical extinguishment. At 11 30 a basement fire at the Y M C building caused by furnace sparks resulted in only slight damage.
Thomas J Head Jr of Bristol was arrested in Reading Massachusetts by Fall River police on charges of two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon with intent to murder after a January 10 shooting at a gambling joint on Bay Street Tiverton. Three co defendants Manuel Cabral Antone Cabral and Antone Fragosa face hearings on bail worth 10000 each. Victims are hospitalized in Fall River Union. Head on parole for breaking and entering in December 1920 has served about half his five year term.
The glass-silk sponge, known as mineral silk sponge in Japan, grows in tropical Pacific waters from Fujiyama to the Indian Ocean. Its fibers are woven into chemical fiber cloths and fireproof items while the nonfiber framework is used to insulate steam pipes and in cold storage, rivaling asbestos in function.
The Hermetic books are described as a 42‑book sacred canon of ancient Egypt. They cover theology, religion, arts, and sciences and are linked to Hermes Trismegistrus. Attributed to unknown authors in the fourth century AD, with varying counts given by Jamblichus and Manetho. Detroit News notes this tradition.
Elephants are rising in numbers in Africa due to strengthened laws protecting them. Years ago more than 60,000 were slaughtered annually for tusks, raising extinction fears beyond the Zambesi region. Now no Cape ivory market remains and most trade concentrates in Mozambique, according to Youth's Companion.
Four heifer calves belonging to Sam Cnutsen of Hermiston Oregon swam a long distance after straying from the herd. The concrete-lined canal was too deep to wade and too steep to climb so the animals chose to swim. A farmer nine miles below the Carson place spotted them and ropes were used to pull them out.
A headline note from the Illinois State Journal remarks that for some individuals life becomes a continual series of indignation meetings.
A reader reflects on handling a friend's literature choices with kindness. The tone advocates amiable responses rather than scorn, preserving friendship while maintaining personal standards.
Bizarre rite in Borneo as communities elevate chiefs in burial rites. Natives bury chiefs in small house like structures suspended or hung, resembling bird houses, in rural areas. Local observers describe ritual as a smoke and reverence practice tied to ancestral traditions.
Diary keepers seek ready material for letters as daily entries provide ample topics. Writers can mine everyday events, observations, and conversations to craft vivid correspondence.
A series of social events fills January and February including a Dreadwight Hooks Ladder and Hose Co. fundraiser on January 22 in Bristol Casino and several dances and suppers. Highlights include a Mt. Carmel Circle Daughters of Isa bella salad supper on Feb 12, and a Ladies auxiliary Washington Ball on Feb 23 by Bristol Train of Artillery at Bristol Casino.
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