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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Mar 17, 1916
Page
3
A London Mail quip set in Cheshire humor shows a woman asking for dinner and lamenting a lost false tooth. The exchange reveals hunger and frugal wit as she cannot share the warm meal without her teeth.
The New Haven railroad completed a two story Boston building for dining car supplies with a modern refrigerating system. Food is inspected on arrival, stored by department, and kept above storage spaces to prevent frost contact. The dining car system serves nearly 600,000 meals yearly across fifteen mobile restaurants run by a centralized management.
A Brooklyn hagie quotes a New York department store chief stating five male shoplifters to every female thief. He describes moll-buzzers who lurk around mollies and lists favored targets from jewelry to rugs. He notes drug influence among male thieves and recalls dramatic excuses.
G H Moses observes in National Geographic that Greek women lack individuality, labor in fields and households, and remain under male control while social life centers on men. He notes gradual change through schools, royal patronage, and business demand, signaling future progress toward Western-like rights.
Harry Dickson recalls Mandy a old mammy kept from starvation by white women who paid only what she collected for the missionary society. Mrs. Dickson offered housework but Mandy preferred collection work saying she received no pay except what she gathered for the society.
A device for testing fabric wear clamps the cloth in a rigid jaw and moves it over a rubber surface made from dull blades in a cylinder. The other end is tied to a roller with suspended weights to set tension. An electric motor alternates cylinder movement, and a counter records each forward and backward pass as one rub.
Henry Sydnor Harrison notes in the Atlantic Monthly that English novelists are superior and that Britain’s reported genius seems inflated. He jokes about modern illness of universal genius and comments on young British authors appearing in publishers’ lists.
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