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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 13, 1928
Page
3
A housewife adapts seasonal menus using Swiss cheese as a heartier yet lighter protein substitute. The article extols butter cream and cheese with fruit and vegetables, offers serving ideas from thin slices on salads to au gratin toppings, and suggests simple cold platters and light desserts to fit warm weather.
The goat produces more milk annually in proportion to its weight than any other animal kept for dairy purposes. Its efficient milk production makes goats a favored choice for small and large farms alike.
Early Hebrew tradition held Jerusalem as a central point of the earth making it exceptionally stable. The idea connected cosmic regularity with the city’s sacred status, shaping religious thought about geography and divine order.
A reflective note credits a small group with high intellect for advancing a concept called divinization while the majority follow, expressing gratitude for the pioneering minds.
After a thousand years scientists complete exhaustive research into a genealogy of vitamins and report that ham and eres are twins.
In Portland a businessman famed for a youthful wife hosts a traveling man for dinner. Afterward in the smoking room the guest quips that Mrs Blank is the handsomest woman he has met, prompting the husband to joke he limits guests to plain men so no woman would seek them a second time.
Walter and Lawrence saved two cakes for the next day. William found one cake with a large bite missing. Lawrence confessed he took the bite after tasting it and discovering it was William’s cake.
The Essenes were a Jewish sect likely formed after the Maccabees and existing until about 200 A D. Descriptions by Pliny Josephus and Philo portray them as religious separatists with stringent ceremonial practices celibacy and communal living. Membership required lengthy fasting and discipline. No evidence Jesus Christ was an Essene though some link John the Baptist to similar traits.
A New York Herald Tribune note recounts King Leopold I of Belgium chasing a sought book in Paris by posing as a laborer and buying it for a few francs. He later recovered the volume in Vienna for 150 dollars, amid a long habit of collecting rare works, with motive unclear but passion evident across acquisitions.
An Austrian doctor reports a year of experiments showing nourishment through the skin as an alternative to injections into blood or digestive tract. A concentrated fat protein sugar vitamin ointment would be massaged into the skin to supply nutrients when eating is impossible.
Smith Ely Jeliffe argues brain weight does not determine intellect. He notes idiots can have brains as heavy as capable humans and that intelligence rests in complex cell connections rather than size. He acknowledges some renowned minds have larger brains, but many with equal capacity lack this trait.
Miss F Watts of Tatsfield England keeps a spider colony. She winds their silk onto cards for her brothers to use in scientific instruments. Threads for fixing range-finders and microscopes are split four times under a high power microscope.
A farmer visits a bank credit manager to apply for a $1000 loan. After discussing the terms, he asks what happens if the note “perspires” and he cannot repay. The banker replies that they would make him sweat for it.
In a tense moment the man fixes on a pale, small hand pressed against another face. He realizes with horror that the second face is his watch showing he missed the final train home, a scene filled with hopeless tragedy.
In London a woman relies on two family dogs to assess new staff. She keeps the animals in the room during introductions and believes the dogs reveal character and disposition more clearly than any other test. She asserts the dogs’ sagacity has never failed.
A quotation from Woman's Home Companion asserts girls should be taught to dance and sew so they know how to use both hands and feet. It emphasizes practical domestic arts as essential education for girls.
Heat need not be hot to feed. The article outlines lunch ideas for school children focusing on fat, starches, and sugars. It highlights prepared fish sandwiches with bread, butter or mayonnaise, and fillings, plus tuna and sardine options in oil or sauce. It also suggests meat, fish, and bean loaves, salmon loaf, wax paper wrapping, and desserts like gelatin salads and fruit custards for year round, healthful lunches.
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