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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1930
Page
6
The vessel measures 20 feet beam 15.25 feet draft and 143 tons displacement with 7568 sq ft sail area. It features a hollow wooden mast rising 152 feet 12 inches above deck and a bronze hull with white upper, burnished bronze lower sections separated by a black belt. It will be towed to the north pier for mast stepping after launch. The Ynast is 163 feet 8.5 inches long.
The New York Yacht Club syndicate backs Weetamoe built by Herreshoff with J Pierpont Morgan and others as owners. Trials begin before the September Newport races to defend the America's Cup against Shamrock V. Enterprise is the season’s other Herreshoff-built defender with multiple trial spins.
The article notes a shift in social norms calling sneezing a breach of etiquette while acknowledging its natural function of expelling dust and irritants. It discourages sneezing openly and promotes using a handkerchief to contain the act.
A compact aphorism notes that men who seize a fragment of truth may presume ownership of all truth, warning against overreaching certainty and urging humility in judgment.
The 1582 act requires 3 per week fees and attendance at divine service on Sundays and holy days. Parishioners not exempt may face ecclesiastical court action, admonishment, and costs for nonattendance.
An old practice of humor emerges in English church carvings showing a monk preaching to geese. A Bedfordshire Hertfordshire farmhouse bore a beam inscription, If you are cold, go to Hertfordshire, hinting at a split living room with the fireplace in one county and part of the room in the other.
A Manchester Guardian columnist recounts Disraeli’s satirical disdain for doctors at age seventy three. He derides doctors as “Gull is all froth and words” and mocks Sir William Jenner’s Bournemouth trip and Gull’s Ems suggestion. The piece notes Joseph Chamberlain’s belief that merely moving between bed and chair counts as exercise.
A woman prods Finch to embrace life, insisting she is unafraid and urging bold action. She boasts of her own courage as she questions his fear and presses him to seize life by force. The Kansas City Star captures a tense exchange about fear and vitality.
The passage describes a lunar sunrise as nearly instantaneous due to the Moon's lack of atmosphere. No twilight or rosy tints appear. darkness gives way abruptly as sunlight illuminates the first peaks in stark, high contrast against surrounding shadowed terrain.
Prof Mottram states daily adult female needs 2500 calories and sedentary male 3000. Hard work male requires 5000. He理由 attributes higher male needs to more economical female metabolism. Children not by age. fourteen year olds treated as adults for food utilization.
The excerpt argues that a madhouse could be a place of sanity compared with intellectual circles and restless movements. Chesterton contrasts quiet seclusion with noisy chatter about philosophy and social service campaigns that feel intrusive and distracting.
The Whirlwind, named after the famed clipper Whirlwind, was launched Wednesday at the Lawley shipyard in Boston. Designed by L Francis Herreshoff for Langdon Thorne's New York yacht syndicate, the wooden hull defender measures about 158 tons and 127 feet overall with 7500 square feet of sail. The Yankee, Boston's entry, will be launched at Lawley tomorrow.
The provided text is a quotation from E. W. Howe's Weekly praising natural beauty and restraint in adornment, comparing a beautiful woman to a rose and noting no need for further enhancements beyond minor repairs with age. No named events or organizations are present.
The United States Army Air Corps reports that a man falling with a parachute pack never reaches 118 miles per hour and does not lose consciousness at any altitude.
A Hermsdorf Silesia church installs a heating system enabling each visitor to heat his pew individually. Tubes run along the benches with a switch at every seat to regulate the heat.
A traveler journeys 4900 miles to reach a distant bathhouse. The sensational account highlights endurance and curiosity about long-distance spa visits and unusual travel for wellness.
Government specifications require that the dextrin from tapioca form the base of the sticking fluid used on postage stamps. This dextrin is noted as part of the better grade glue available from tapioca.
A sailing ship brought a few coffee plant seedlings raised from Arabian berries in 1720. The cuttings were sent from the Jardin des Plantes in Paris to the French colony of Martinique in the West Indies.
A provocative line notes more men fail because of success than because of failure, as discussed by successful business leaders in American Magazine. The remark frames achievement as a trap that undermines long term stability for many professionals.
May 7 1930 probate notice in Bristol requests written applications to appoint Mary Wreitas Colte or another suitable person as administratrix of Rosa Pedro deceased intestate. Hearing set for May 26 1930 at 10 AM in Probate Court Room Bristol. notice ordered published for fourteen days weekly in Bristol Phenix.
Philip Sansone guardian for minors Pasquale Proto and Louis Proto seeks authority to sell their one fourth interests in Lot 17 on the Ryan Street plat Bristol. The sale funds would pay minor debts and finance a better investment. Hearing set May 26, 1930. notice to run 14 days in Bristol Phoenix.
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