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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1926
Page
3
A dense list of wordplay clues covers fabrics, actions, body parts, criminals, measurements, and nautical terms. Includes entries like 8 opening, 11 leave hurriedly, 12 drink in small, 21 organ of hearing, 32 nautical mile, 40 energy slang, and 43 near sightedness. The note promises solution in the next issue.
The service notes Holy Communion at 8 a.m. with Rev. James DeWolf Perry preaching. Saint James Apostle observed. Evening service omitted until September.
Eighth Sunday after Trinity services listed include Holy Communion Matins Church School Sung mass and sermon Evensong and address, with times starting at 7 30 a m and continuing through 4 30 p m an order of worship excerpt.
Friday night service at 7 30 and Sunday morning worship at 10 30. Sermon theme Brotherhood. Sunday night at 7 30 praise and preaching with the sermon A Personal Question.
The State Street M. E. Church announces a prayer meeting Friday at 7 30. Sunday activities include preaching at 10 30 and 12 00, Sunday School at 6 30, and Epworth League at 7 30 p m. The parsonage at 129 State Street has telephone 72 A.
Morning service at 10 3000 Sermean by the pastor. Church School at TL 44. Fyening service at 7 36. Ps arse and preaching.
The Church of the Nazarene on Court Street announces Sunday services led by Thomas Armstrong. Morning service at 1045 a m with watchman attendance, Sunday School at noon, Young People's meeting at 6 00 pm, Evangelistic meeting at 7 00 pm, prayer meeting Wednesday at 7 30 pm. You are invited.
For at least fifteen minutes she was awake for hours.
The Elmira Advertiser notes that early settlers suffered from dental problems in rough conditions. It contrasts modern dentistry with forebears who faced painful diseased molars and limited care, linking lifelong health to advances in science and medicine.
A Princeton University student develops a compact device described as a life machine. It uses factors like tobacco use, sickness days, and blood pressure to estimate a person’s lifespan, aiming to aid insurance mortality tables though experts may remain skeptical.
A stage manager rehearsed a mob scene for a new play telling actors to report in fur overcoats for a Russia scene. One actor lacked a fur coat and was told he would not perform unless dressed for Russia, while insisting he wore two suits of underwear.
The Subhsentian institution notes that South American curare and related poisons used on arrows did not extend to Mexico. References are scarce to identify the toxin, with one suggesting leaf juice from an unidentified plant might have been used. The Aztecs were skilled in plant lore and could have crafted arrows accordingly.
Innovative carbon dioxide extinguishers designed to smother fires by displacing air. They target switchboard fires, oil tankers, and cargo holds to reduce water damage and upper losses in conventional firefighting.
The naval observatory explains that ignoring atmosphere a light sensed by the eye from a distant object scales with heat output and inversely with distance squared. Doubling distance requires quadruple brightness for equal apparent intensity, yet stars’ enormous size and luminosity compensate for distance.
The weary and dusty orator arrives home to greet his wife. He boasts that his speech drew six pauses for cheers and five actual cheers, highlighting his speaking success.
Edward F Christie longtime organist of St Marys Church died at Waltham Hospital after a brief illness caused by a brain hemorrhage. A native of this town he was a son of the late Michael and Bridget Christie and a charter member of Bristol Council Knights of Columbus. He leaves his wife Jennie Manning and three sons a daughter a sister Annie E Christie a nephew Grover Christie and a niece Katherine Christie. Funeral from his sisters home with a 9 30 am mass and 10 o clock requiem at St Marys Church with interment in St Marys Cemetery.
The Board of Managers acknowledges donations from June 8 to July 13 at the Home. Gifts include work on radio and ice cream, vegetables, ice cream, circus tickets, fireworks, hats, doughnuts, sugar, sand, and various items given by Mrs C B Rockwell Jr, Mrs Ret UP Testy, Mrs Halsey DeWolf, Granville Lindley, Mr Pollock, Mrs Lanphear, the Misses Wardwell, Mrs Lindles, Mrs Buffington, Mrs McKee, Mrs Arthur Wood, and Gen Ho Callan among others.
A collage of witty slogans and satirical quotes from multiple papers about politics, economics, and culture. The items reference truths about leadership, jobs, inflation, and national character through sharp one liners and cartoonish remarks. The piece surveys public sentiment across U S newspapers.
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