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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1925
Page
4
A Rotary Club address in Elyria Ohio features a tale of a father who planted a buckeye in memory of his late son. The story recounts a boy gathering buckeyes, falling ill, and dying, leaving a tree that grew fifteen years later as a living monument to a boy and a father's love.
The late Prince Kilanianuole, long a Hawaii delegate to Congress, amassed a large collection of ancient Hawaiian relics. His Waikiki home housed many warlike implements and ceremonial calabashes dating back centuries. Some sacred gourds contained valuable documents and pictures. the collection also includes rare feather capes once used by royalty.
Gap Johnson of Rumpus Ridge recalls waking to see a woman by the ash heap fooling around and kissing him before realizing it was his wife with bobbed hair. She scolds his drinking and notes he never noticed the change, forcing him to hand her money for a new hat.
The Swedish royal family shows strong artistic talent with Prince Wilhelm praised as a poet playwright and travel writer. His Hassan translation from Stockholm receives acclaim in London Tit-Bits. Prince Eugen studies in Paris and paints well while King Oscar II and Charles XV are noted poets and painters.
A camp kitchen argument erupts over iced tea versus boiling tea. The ex Blacksmith Tt, a battery cook, defends iced tea saying boiling would melt the ice, while the mess sergeant questions the method.
A wife fears a horrid caterpillar in the lettuce as she pleads with her husband Herbert. The brief exchange underscores a domestic moment of alarm and surprise in the Ettray Storles fragment.
A Senate Chamber ceremony in Washington paid tribute to LeBdron Bradfer Colt Henry Cabot Lodge and Frank Brandegee with eulogies. The event honored their memories and reflected on international cooperation and precious soldiers' lives.
Colleagues Senators Metcalf Gerry Walsh Montana and Sterling eulogize the late Rhode Island Senator Colt. They recall his elder statesman role and pivotal wartime and postwar legislation. Family members and friends attend a formal memorial in Washington as tributes recount his Yale and Columbia Law education and public service.
The senate pauses to honor LeBaron Bradford Colt who died while serving Rhode Island in the U S Senate. His career spanned 1913 to 1924 in Congress, plus 32 years as a federal judge, and he contributed during World War I era.
Tributes lauded LeBaron Bradford Colt a Senator and judge noted for fairness breadth of view and respect for courts. Colleagues recalled his mastery of constitutional and international law his opposition to illogical legislation and his work on immigration and federal supremacy. The passage honors his career from scholar to jury and his role as a guiding figure in public life.
The text describes dowries and marriage practices, noting an Egyptian belief about wedding rings and the heart. It discusses hair coverings, varied headdresses among daughters of elites, linen as favored fabric, gold thread borders on dresses, and intermarriage to keep estates intact across generations.
A visit to Harrow’s Hill and the famed school reveals the annual Harrovian straw hat phenomenon. The hat, unique to Harrow, sits on heads with an elastic under the back, may slip in wind, and in wet weather becomes a water shed.
A humorous yet dated piece claims bald men resist consumption, citing a doctor who reports no bald among 5,000 patients. It suggests baldness stems from cold dampness or poor diet, and notes wet hair after barber visits on cold days and excessive exercise chilling the scalp.
A Frenchwoman who spoke Russian repeatedly showed her passport at the home office during talks with porters and messengers. A 1919 transfer from the French to the north Russian front was recalled by an intelligence officer after a long conversation, revealing her request for a house or a small flat.
An English nobleman buys an old coaching tavern and plans to run it as a museum and inn. A first customer complains of a relic cheese sandwich and asks if it is a sandwich or an antique.
In a humorous family account the Pittman children are each named first in different feats at school. Tommy leads in reading Alice in arithmetic Sammy in sports and 80 on Janet claims a unique first by leaving the building when the bell rings.
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