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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 13, 1931
Page
5
A five year old named Robert learns responsibility within a child centered home. His mother guides him to solve problems in his own world teaching order, courtesy, and self reliance without adult judgment. The approach treats mistakes as chances to teach rather than to punish.
Bulletin 39 from 1919 compiles 52 short articles on child training. Published by the National Kindergarten Association of New York, it notes the collection can be obtained for 15 cents from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Washington, D. C.
Armistice Day events featured the Portuguese Independent Band, Battery C 243rd Coast Artillery, Boy Scouts Troops 1-4, Sea Scout sloop, and a women’s division led by Mrs Hope M. Cote. Fire, veteran, and auxiliary groups marched, ending with a ceremony at Burnside Memorial Building and a well attended ball at the State Armory.
The Junior Christian Endeavor Society will lead evening services at DeWolf Memorial Chapel at 7:30 directed by Miss Hazel Nettleton. Clyde Pendleton will read scripture and Harold Josephson along with Norman Hibbert handle offerings, with Miss Funice Marshman leading singing.
The Boston Herald notes ongoing debate on proper conduct for consuming the last blackberry juice. The piece discusses whether a spoon should scoop from the depied plate or if a guest may lap the remaining puddle with the tongue as a cat would.
The Stoke Poges estate ranks in Domesday history with a Penn lineage. It houses a Penn vault and private church access used by the Penn family, while descendants hold the manor. In California a Little Church of the Flower near Glendale supports Stoke Poges upkeep with a recent gift of its ancient altar table.
A historical note describes Buileyn a prominent Tudor pharmacist and physician, cousin to Anne Boleyn, who laid down early pharmacy rules. It urges piety, cleanliness, pious charity, gardens with herbs, reading Dioscorides, proper equipment, dual shop areas for medicine and surgery, fidelity to physicians, no rotten drugs, and skilled bleeding.
A correspondent recalls seeing a small bird hanging upside down entangled in a large spider’s web between two branches in the Transvaal. The spider had retreated unseen. The bird fluttered loudly as it struggled to escape before the observer released it. Bird eating spiders are known in South America.
Eldon Ratter of the Manchester Geographical Society notes about 200000 pilgrims from Mohammedan countries visit Mecca yearly. He warns that no unbeliever has safely approached within twenty miles in over a century, while a few Europeans have entered in disguise but many outsiders have disappeared.
A nature feature extols the moose as the largest North American land mammal. It notes its oversized nose broad palmated antlers and throat pendant, comparing it to a storybook creature. The animal towers over a horse yet moves softly through northern thickets near streams and lakes. It feeds on water plants leaves and roots.
The term horsepower originated in the eighteenth century as steam engine power replaced horse labor in mines. One horsepower equals 33 000 pounds lifted one foot in one minute or 50 pounds lifted one foot in one second.
A quotation attributes the claim to Kossuth that steam power erased distance from the dictionary. The text then notes airplanes bear responsibility for this blotting, highlighting the modern impact of flight on travel notions.
The theatrical district swarms with fans at stage doors and in lobbies for personal appearances. Crowds form around the Nouvel and Earl Carroll theatres while autograph hunting spills into the night with social climbers and photographers.
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