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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 03, 1927
Page
3
A mix of political commentary and light satire covers fraud indictments, rhetoric on fat reduction, airline contracts, and Italy under Mussolini. The piece touches Greece sending a pedigreed pig, Bolshevik sharp remarks, women voters, and reflections on modern commerce and leadership.
Reading health hints can be misleading as advertisers push quick cures and substitutes. The author warns that many quacks prey on ill people, while qualified physicians rarely advertise, urging readers to think critically and verify claims before trusting medical guidance. Next Week: Old Remedies.
The Daily Oklahoman recalls San Teodoro in Love County where centuries of human remains mark a haunted frontier. Spanish, French, Taovaya, and cattlemen left bones, rifle bullets, and legends of buried gold as relics of a volatile frontier.
A California naturalist reports 227 trapdoor spiders on a barren twenty two by twenty two foot plot near San Fernando. Five burrows cluster so closely they could be photographed on a single plate. Mechanics Magazine notes holes kept open with ticks and a helper to guard entrances as spiders close traps. Variations exist with some spiders large in size and lines of soft web and earth shaping the concealed den.
Urban flower shows face springlike effort against late summer heat and early frost. Gardeners seek protective coverings to guard rare specimens as temperatures drift toward freezing in the shielded display period.
A fragment describes a hidden bronze peep hole in a vault system that lets a watcher view interior and entrance from the street level without detection. The piece notes a defense mechanism and mentions a police observer monitoring the Panic vaults.
A telephone operator at police headquarters recalls a strained call from a woman asking about letting her fifteen year old son play euchre at home. The operator tells the caller she will have to be the judge of that. Indianapolis News notes the unusual request amid taxpayer inquiries of many kinds.
The Library of Congress keeps confidential presidential papers in steel vaults with access by order. Writings of Washington through Jackson will be available to researchers, while later presidents require credentials or special permission. Public viewing only in outer room examples. full access granted as publicity eras shift.
The London News notes the appointment of Clifford Long den in succession to Sir Walter Gibson as one of the four sergeants at arms. The role is a purely court function, serving at levees state balls and concerts, identified by a silver collar of office. The mace weighs 34 pounds, shaping expectations for coronation day.
University of California home economics researchers report copper skewers heat meat more quickly and evenly, producing juicier, tender roasts while reducing cooking time by about 80 percent and minimizing weight loss during baking.
A new bureau for brides and grooms begins in Jerusalem offering dowry protection. Girls are entered into a waiting list from childhood and assured funds at marriageable age, aiming to secure marriages on a sound basis under Jewish rites.
A New Jersey debate in Atlantic City centers on reviving blue Sunday laws while a minister in Florida scolds a parishioner for fishing on Sunday. The minister warns the boy to observe the Fourth Commandment as he presides over the scene.
The article surveys famed collectors from history such as Lord Kitchener, J. Pierpont Morgan, Horace Walpole, and Petrarch. It notes that collecting reveals true interests beyond profession, with examples like palace porcelain, mosque lamps, and manuscripts shaping cultural heritage. It also cites Cosimo de Medici and the Laurentian Library as legacies of collecting.
Marcel Knecht, French delegate, speaks on resourcefulness in English with a humorous tale about Tom Jones and John Brown debating crime options during tough times. The dialogue suggests clever risk taking and insurance implications amid a public event.
Mrs Hamilton describes bandit bees in Capper's Weekly, noting no hospitals and that illness is treated as crime with execution. Bee policemen guard hives while bandits are driven away, and reform is unlikely. Bees store food and rear young, while intruding bees are killed and discarded. Bumble bees and aliens are banished, and a mouse is killed as a threat. Honey is described as a bitter acid that feels sweet.
The Longines water exhibit at the Sesquicentennial International Exposition in Philadelphia showcases A Wittnauer timepieces from Switzerland. A desk watch earned governmental honors at Teddington Neuchatel and Geneva observatories after tests. The six week error measured under four one hundredths of a second.
Capper's Weekly notes nearly 1 000 hotels in New York offer sleep for 150 to 20 dollars daily. Some riders shelter in subways for a nickel or in discarded elevated cars, with guards occasionally preventing such lodging. All night riders hop trains to stay warm and rest.
The article marks Volta’s nearly centenary since death and outlines a proposal to celebrate with an international exhibition and congress in Como, Italy between May and October 1927. It notes wireless technology, then futuristic, will be showcased.
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