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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1917
Page
3
The Brooklyn Eagle reports that in 10 500 schools where spelling bees were held statewide, girls showed greater spelling proficiency than boys with 80 percent of silver medals going to girls. Infantile paralysis fears prevented free trips to the State Fair at Syracuse for county champions.
The piece recalls St Thomas Day traditions once common among poorer Britons who went begging at wealthy homes, known as going a gooding or coring. It notes the shift from festive songs to a grim fundraiser in some areas, with references to wassail and a line about sharing drink and rewards at households.
Dr. W. T. Hornaday of the New York Zoological Park argues that buffalo extinction was not caused by human encroachment on grazing grounds but by systematic slaughter. He notes the plains herds from Saskatchewan to Texas were erased by robe and hide hunting, tongues, and other deliberate methods long before cattle grazing or agriculture.
In the New York World commentary Prof. Thomas Stockton Baker notes boys shift from piracy and Indian fighters to adventurers in submarines and airplanes under Europe’s war influence. He questions girls abandoning paper dolls for Red Cross nursing and munitions play, warning of moral impact.
Miss Catherine Britton of Washington married Prince Alfred zu Hohenlohe-Schillingfuerst of the Austro Hungarian embassy. The union followed shifts in Vienna after Francis Joseph’s death and the archduke’s accession. The bride, twenty four, had been a Washington social favorite and served as a war nurse in Paris.
The article traces the umbrella’s antiquity noting its Chinese origins four to five thousand years before creation, and its use by Eastern royalty as a royal emblem. It mentions Sanskrit poets alluding to protection for the bare headed and Nineveh’s Chaldaic scriptures describing the umbrella carried over kings in peace and sometimes in war.
Local dialect anecdote features Uncle Eben quipping that a man who argues just to talk wastes steam like an engineer blowing his whistle. A short saying captures persuasive restraint and humor from community voices.
The text reviews attempts by French and German inventors to create guns that emit no flash or sound. German trials reduced flash with chemical additives but increased smoke. French focus shifted to mechanics, referencing Maxim’s 1909 silencer as a turning point, though practical wartime use remains elusive.
The New York assay office is described as the world’s leading institution for refining and financing gold. The facility holds vast quantities of gold in bricks bars and coins, with 15 melting pots and workers melting and refining gold to 999.5 fineness for government purchases and foreign consignments.
A Madison Wisconsin forest products lab developed a method using waste hemlock tan bark to substitute rag stock in felt roofing. Mills report 20 to 80 percent rag replacement with bark and equal product quality, offering substantial manufacturing savings.
A Philadelphia Ledger writer recalls meeting Buffalo Bill on a ship bound for Europe and quizzing him on the finest horseman. Cody names Gen George A Custer as the answer. The tale contrasts Bill on his sorrel horse with desert Arabs fleeing on unshod mounts.
After 40 years of marriage a Long Island man became cruel to his wife and was found guilty by a magistrate. He was sentenced to attend at least one church service every Sunday for one year, raising questions about whether the sentence is punitive or reformative.
A reader quip blames the heat woes on a cousin of the janitor in the coal business, not the landlord, illustrating a common grievance about heating in apartment buildings.
A secretary notes that year-end letters often carry a date 1916 instead of 1917 due to a mechanical habit. The error arises when writers fail to update the year, especially among those who draft their own correspondence, while secretaries and stenographers who copy others’ work may be more careful.
The four mast schooner Alpha was halted as logan berry juice shattered the shipboard mood. Old seafarers blamed the incident on the beverage while the W C T U lamented royal champagne use. The vessel stuck at the riverfront as engineers failed to free it, prompting a cheer from critics who predicted the fault lay with the juice.
The secretary of agriculture in Washington amends Alaska game protection rules to shield moose and mountain sheep on the Kenai Peninsula. It bans sale of carcasses or parts south of latitude 62 and west of 141 plus the western outlet of Lake Clark, and bans shipment from Anchorage and Seward until October 1, 1918 unless an owner affidavit confirms the animals were not bought or intended for sale.
In a hotel smoking room the explorer proclaims the Arctic vastness while a listener challenges imagination. The exchange shifts to a humorous memory of the explorer's first public appearance in a dress shirt.
Lord Mayo narrates an amusing scene with Lady Beaconsfield hugging her husband in the library. He waited for Lord Beaconsfield in the chair and was surprised when Lady Beaconsfield embraced him exclaiming how glad she was he returned early.
The Siam irrigation department seizes control of a large private irrigation company at Klong Rangsit to extend irrigation across the district and farther north. The total project is valued at 50 million dollars, with immediate improvements costing about 4.25 million.
The Probate Court of Bristol appoints ROBERTS CLOWES as guardian of the persons and estates of Elizabeth Ward Clowes and Stetson Clowes. All claims against the wards must be filed with the Clerk within six months from the first advertisement.
Fannie M. Slade announces acceptance of the rebate of the Mary I Slade will and bond filed in Istol Probate Court. Claims against the estate must be filed within six months from the first advertisement. March 9, 1917.
In Bristol on March 1 1917 guardian Sophie J D Wolf files eleventh account for James Francis D Wolf estate with a hearing set March 19 1917 at 10 30 AM notice to be published fourteen days Bristol Phoenix. Henry Dreyer estate allowance noted with Bristol Phoenix publication. Alphone Ruggero alias Alfonso Ruggerio probate filing for Bristol deceased. Estelle Mudge guardian presents ninth account for Estelle Mudge estate with Bristol Phoenix notice. Annie E Bowler probate of last will presented for Bristol deceased with publication in Bristol Phoenix.
Rhode Island Bristol County Bristol town warns electors to assemble at the town hall on March 19 1917 at 7 30 pm for budgets outlining taxes for town debts schools poor highways bridges and other municipal needs plus several propositions on spending for fire bandstand roads school construction sewer projects and public works and to consider a state street extension resolution and related items.
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