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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1923
Page
3
A historical note compares using trained simians for tasks across regions. It cites a coconut plantation monkey collector, Chinese precursors who gathered rhubarb and rice over a century ago, Abyssinia hosts with simian torch-bearers, and a Cape Colony station master who trained a baboon to signal and operate railway switches.
Testimonies from Bristol residents praise Dean's Kidney Pills as a lasting remedy. Mrs. Manchester of 18 Bourne St. states the treatment strengthened her back and remains effective after years of use. Price 60c, available at Buffington's Pharmacy. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo N Y endorses the product.
In 1725 Scotland debated introducing potatoes. Pulpit denunciations claimed potatoes not in the Bible and linked to Adam’s fall, leprosy, and fever. England’s potato cultivation backed by the Royal Society was viewed as a capitalist plot to suppress the poor. A labor leader dismissed them as cattle food.
The passage explains blush as a sign of self consciousness and sensitivity to others opinions. It notes some girls cannot blush while contrasting habitual criminals and idiots. It adds that short sighted girls blush more without eyeglasses than when wearing them.
A 800 foot long rope three inches thick hangs in a great Buddhist temple in Kyoto Japan. It is woven from contributions of millions of Japanese women and was used to haul timbers for construction. Now preserved as a sacred relic of history.
Nature Magazine notes codfish are highly productive as a major food source. Dried and salted cod travel worldwide as an important product, with a typical twenty pound fish containing about 2.6 million ergs of energy.
Armistice Day activities centered on Hope Street with races and a ducking of volunteers. The day featured athletic events, a free YMCA film showing, a Portuguese band concert, and a large Kearney Post American Legion banquet and ball at the Hotel Belvedere and Naval Armory with speeches by state officials and veterans leaders.
Funeral services for Mrs Isabella (Colt) deWolf wife of Francisco E deWolf were held at her home Miramar on Hope Street. Born June 23 1840 in New York she died after a long illness. Interment Juniper Hill Cemetery. She and her husband lived in Switzerland and Nice before settling in town.
The article outlines Mrs. deWolf’s lineage through the Colt and DeWolf families of Hartford and Newport. It notes Peter Colt of New York, Gen. George DeWolf who built Linden Place, Col. Samuel P. Colt who died in 1921, and connections to William Bradford and James DeWolf the Rhode Island senator. It also mentions her husband Bradford Colt deWolf, a daughter Baroness Levay de Kistelek, and LeBaron B. Colt as a brother with descendants and a son and grandchildren in the family.
Members of St Michael s Church parish meet in the chapel Friday evening at 8 o twelve o clock. Reverend Albert M Hilliker of Christ Church Lonsdale will discuss the Every Member Canvass. A social hour with light refreshments follows the close. The parish will join Sunday evening next in a Bristol group mass meeting at St Mark s Warren at 8 o clock.
Delfino Coreira Martins Jr and Mary Pereira Valante both of this town filed marriage intentions.
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