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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1926
Page
4
The Philadelphia stadium, built in about 300 working days, opened a month before the Exposition. A May 1 dedicatory program drew 10,000 spectators with 3,000 boys massed on the field and 14 bands performing as city officials and parents watched.
The text traces public parks from ancient Egypt and Persia to modern days. It notes many parks in ancient cities, few in the Middle Ages, and a surge of park creation in Renaissance Europe.
Renowned analyst Grantland Rice describes a Charley horse as sudden muscle bunching forming a hard knot. He notes it is a common and painful athletic ailment affecting many athletes.
Lord Holland kept a weekly concert to entertain his stud of horses. He built a gallery for the purpose and claimed the music cheered their hearts and improved their temperaments. The anecdote appears in London Tit Bits.
Many readers collect pewter and advise washing with warm soapy water after use. Dry with wheat bran and a soft cloth. For heavy grime, a paste of whitening and alcohol cleans pewter when rubbed well, then polish with a soft cloth.
Theodore Hook, noted as a brilliant yet impudent English wit, once approached a pompous man marching grandly along the street. Hook bowed, asked if the man was somebody in particular, and then, before an answer could form, quickly disappeared.
The Biloxi, a small Siouan people once living in southern Mississippi, are nearly extinct. The first direct notice comes from Iberville in 1699 near Biloxi Bay, where he encountered them with the Paskagula and Moctobi, the trio totaling about twenty cabins.
A decrying of hat size as a measure of intellect references Helen Hamilton Gardener who left her brain to Cornell for study. Despite her 1150 gram brain matching Dr Burt Wilder, scientists warn large heads do not prove superior minds and famous individuals show wide hat sizes, from presidents to explorers.
A neighborhood in Cushing faces a severe mouse problem with households using cloth and improvised barriers to deter pests. Residents report trapping success and a surge in local mouse trap sales as the situation worsens.
A burglar entered a van in Oakland stole an $800 radio outfit and, after listening to a sermon by Dr Frank M. Silzley on morality, he returned to the house, placed the radio on a stand, fixed the ground wire, and left. A letter from a convict claims the action as described.
Metallurgical experts report a fused tungsten and tungsten carbide alloy with hardness within one tenth of a degree of diamond. The material combines metallic structure with lasting cutting power and practical advantages over diamond in industrial use.
Historic London church St Michael is reopened after extensive renovations. The building sits on the site of Dick Whittington’s original burial place, though the grave is gone. Renovation included wall and ceiling painting and moving the altar railing to form a choir screen. Moses and Aaron statues, once on pedestals beside the altar, are now set in wall niches above their former position.
The piece lists violent Christian persecutions under Roman emperors with dates such as Nero 64 68 Domitian 95 Trajan 106 Marcus Aurelius 176 177 Septimus Severus 199 2704 Maximus 85 238 Decius 252 258 Valerian 58 280 Aurelian 275 Diocletian 303 313. It explains persecutions were driven more by Christians refusing state religion and law than by religious belief, as religion was embedded in Roman law.
The text suggests Arctic and Antarctic exploration renewed in the twentieth century mainly for scientific research and commercial interests. It notes Peary’s polar efforts yielded few valuable observations in geography, meteorology, and oceanography.
A young woman applies finishing touches on the Rainbow City at the Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition opening June 1 in Philadelphia and running to December 1. She is part of an army of artists coloring the fair celebrating the 150th anniversary of American independence.
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