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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 02, 1917
Page
5
Delegates who attended the Boys Conference at Lowell Massachusetts arrive home late Monday afternoon. The group’s conduct receives praise from Lowell residents with the Lowell Courier Citizen hailing them as the flower of New England Y M C A organizations. Malden will host them in 1918 February 22 to 24.
A student laments the endless rotation of classes and duties that leave him dizzy and stressed. He asks whether a demotion or a new school building by fall could ease the grinding schedule and restore hope for graduation.
Mrs Vernon Castle leads top-liners in the Star Theatre program this evening with The Shielding Shadow final chapter and Sport ing Blood featuring Dorothy Bernard. W S Hart stars in The Patriot The Crimson Stain Mystery and Vampire Ambrose in a two reel comedy. Monday brings Dante's Inferno.
Keiths Providence Theatre promotes a week of vaudeville headliners led by Houdini the Elusive American with the Chinese Water Torture Cell and the Yogies needle trick. Ernest Ball, Jessie Busley and company present Pansys Particular Punch with a new songs, dances, and comedy sketches alongside Rae Eleanor Ball and May Elinore. A letter to the editor urges Bristol to clean up streets and tackle sanitation along Valley Street Metacom Avenue and Borden Street.
Last evening Nicco claimed two strings in three from the Hawks with H. Newman at 295 across three strings and James Pierce at 108, while Dimond scored 108. South Ends also swept three straight over the Decoys with E. Hibbert hitting 112. Tuesday Hayseeds beat the Tanx two strings in three.
The Y M C A plans a Friday Night Club for Junior and Intermediate members at 7 30 tonight. Speakers include Mrs Alice Morgan with a talk titled The Boys of the Bosphorus and illustrated lectures and moving pictures later. Members may bring one boyfriend who is not a member.
Mme Petrova headlines the Metro five act thrill ride Bridges Burned at the Pastime Theatre. The tale follows an Irish landholder daughter who loves a trespasser forced marriage, secret nuptials, a mill job, a wartime reunion, and a nurse’s toil amid brutal battles and a single ultimate test.
A sequence of community activities lists a Penny Social at First Baptist vestry on March 6, basketball at Y M C A gym on March 8 and 15, St Marys Sunday School entertainment March 15, Kitchen Orchestra at State Street M E Church March 19, Odd Fellows Hall Whirlwind March 21, and the Kin Philip Steam Fire Engine Co Fifteenth Annual Fair in Artillery Hall on April 14 to May 26.
A Pittsburgher recalls lobsters at 45 cents a dozen in Nova Scotia towns like Yarmouth and Digby. He notes hotels serve lobster year round, cooked to order, and explains Maine supply shifts push prices up for export to New York and other centers. He contrasts Nova Scotia value with Pittsburgh costs and comments on local demand.
Ignorance of telegram writers led to curious scenes in the telegraph’s infancy. A countryman doubted a message had gone because his form remained in sight until an operator pushed it into the instrument and rang the bell. A woman even mailed her telegraph in an envelope to shield it from prying eyes.
The text claims early division of labor arose from fire making with women tending the fire and men hunting. It credits women as the inventors of peaceful arts while noting men's role in hunting and warfare. It asserts industrialism and militancy began from these roles.
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