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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1919
Page
4
Six months work produced Douglas Fairbanks epic The Knickerbocker Buckaroo shown at Pastime Theatre. The film features 7000 feet of thrills and laughter with hundreds of actors and grand sets. A quarter of a million dollars spent promises the best evening’s entertainment.
A seven reel picture offers thrills and narrow escapes with romance as virtue and justice win in the end. The villain is defeated and the hero victorious.
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Peggy Hyland stars as Signa Herrick in The Girl With No Regrets a tale of crime and romance with twists as Ruth Roland appears in The Tiger's Trail. A varied slate includes Alias Mary Brown A Hot Finish The Perils of Thunder Mountain Jacques of the Silver North The Wild Rider and The Great Romance with star attractions and a mix of dramas comedies and two reeler shorts.
Sergeant Albert O. Earle of this town is named an Honor Man of the State after receiving a division citation signed by Major General Clarence R. Edwards for gallantry near Verdun. His battery in the 103d Field Artillery, part of the 26th Yankee Division, was hit by a German shell on Oct. 24, 1918. seven crewmen died, two were wounded, Earle and one private survived. He then crawled through a shell swept road to fetch medical aid for the injured.
A long held belief in Scotland and Ulster links seagull behavior to forthcoming weather. When gulls fly far to sea or sit on the sand, fair weather is expected. if they head inland or change course, storms are likely.
An allotment holder on the Tredegar estate at Newport in Monmouthshire created a spectacle by placing a pair of glasses across a potato. The embedded frame rests in the potato while the glasses remain unbroken though rusted.
The article advises washing the stained item in several waters then in milk and soaking hours to vanish ink. It also suggests washing immediately in vinegar and water then in soap and water to remove ordinary ink stains.
Sojourner Truth, a middle aged enslaved woman in eighteenth century New York, adopted the name Noted colored woman and was freed by the 1827 New York abolition act. Harriet Beecher Stowe later penned a life of her.
At breakfast the bald-headed papa asks two year old Elizabeth how she wants her egg. She looks at the egg then at him and replies I des I’ll take it bald-headed papa.
The Executrix of the Last Will of John Matone announces acceptance of the trust and bond after probate. Creditors are notified to file claims with the Bristol probate clerk within six months from the first advertisement date.
The executors of Daniel Rogers Case announce probate acceptance and invite creditors to file claims in Bristol Probate Court. The notice lists Anna Rogers Case Helena de St Prie Case and R J Hospital Trust Co as parties involved with the trust.
Probate filings list two Bristol estates. George T Gladding’s will filed for probate with a court date set for August 4 1919 at 10 30 AM in the Bristol Probate Court. Sarah Birmingham’s estate requests an administrator with John M Birmingham of New York City as candidate or other suitable person. hearing July 21 1919 at 10 30 AM. Both notices call for fourteen days of publication in the Bristol Phenix.
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