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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1922
Page
6
OCR text shows a jumble of community events, theater listings, fundraisers, and social notices with names such as Mr Carmel Church and Prastime Theatre. Various dates and locations appear in a chaotic sequence, mentioning dinners, suppers, and benefit events, many with unclear details.
Silver spring in Florida ranks as one of the world’s largest, filling a basin roughly 200 feet wide and 30 feet deep. The exceptionally clear water flows from multiple bottom springs at a rate described as several pails daily, presenting a notable hydrogeologic feature.
A long list of individuals including Madaline Holt Madeline King Elizabeth Marz Hazel Nettleton Isabel Starkey Aileen Holm Mary Matheson Norma Mathewson Dorothy Hanson Jeanette Thurston Doris Bullock Doris Palmer Anna Head Margaret Booth Mac Monroe Marion Jones Harriet Kinder Edith McGann Marion Brownell Alice Blake and others linked to Fortation Group. names appear alongside social event notes and community ties.
The American Legion Post schedules a regular meeting on Friday February 3 at 8 oclock in GooARK Hall. Members are urged to attend, as roll call is planned and important committee appointments and plans for the season will be discussed. Dues and paid memberships are emphasized to maintain good standing and magazine access.
A cryptic religious fragment recalls Jesus’s crucifixion and calls readers to seek faith. The text references a savior, tender call, and vows of devotion, urging repentance and spiritual allegiance.
The tea plant grows best in the Far East on the Indian peninsula and nearby islands, with wild groves in the forests of Assam. Indigenous leaves spread along the forests of eastern India, Burma, and China, while the western world first learned tea in London from Indian and Chinese sources.
Mme Waddington writes from Algiers describing a hillside villa five to six kilometers from the city. She details blue sea and sky, eucalyptus groves, Moorish white houses, a terrace view toward the Djurjura mountains, and a sunlit drawing room awaiting Paris furnishings to improve its sparse furniture.
In Cape Cod harbor on the Mayflower the first Pilgrim birth Peregrine White son of William and Susanna White and the death of Dorothy May Bradford are noted. The article highlights the signing of the Mayflower Compact as a foundational document. The oaths and documents tied to the settlement are revered as one of America’s great constitutional origins.
A Los Angeles Times report notes two youths aged 9 and 13 who sit near a church window, discussing a warning of an imminent end of the world. A skeptic from the Midwest dismisses it while others insist the prophecy is true, with a preacher urging belief.
A woman returning to a Leeds house found two long white arms reaching from the grate and gripping her arms. She fainted but found no fire in the grate when she recovered. Doctors confirmed burn marks on her arms.
A quotation attributed to John Ruskin extols the right kind of child as loving and useful. The text emphasizes a child that harms nothing, shares freely, helps others, and seeks to be of use rather than pursuing self-advancement.
Nebraska takes its name from the Nebraska Indian word for shallow water the Platte river. The article traces early explorations settlements and the 1867 admission of Nebraska as the 37th state with eight presidential electors.
The piece recounts Colorado’s rise from early Native and Spanish exploration to US territorial status. Highlights include Pike’s Peak naming after Lt. Pike, Long and Fremont explorations, the 1858 Dry Creek gold discovery, Denver’s growth, the 1861 Colorado Territory, and statehood in 1876 with six presidential electors. It notes the state’s area of 103,948 square miles and its nickname the Centennial State.
The Y M C A team meets the Fall River Whirlwinds at Bristol on Thursday evening, with prior visits and a claimed Southern New England title shaping expectations. Newport Y M C A faces the Naval Reserve five in a highly anticipated solo clash after the St Edwards and INIR Co games, followed by dancing until 11 o'clock.
Mrs William L. LeClair of Bristol recounts a night when the exchange kept ringing her doorbell after her front door was locked. She credits Miss Julia Sarris and Miss Fiste Dunbar for careful, tireless service and asks to recognize their dedication with a medal.
Rev Jo Jo McCartin preached on Scandal at the Openmaygo service and Rev Fro Ma Carin led prayers before a sermon on Death or Judgment. Mission services are scheduled this week with Masses at 9 and 7 am and evening services at 7 30 pm.
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