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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 20, 1917
Page
4
War drains resources and blood as nations labor to fund offenses while civilians suffer. The piece laments cannon from daily bread and the toll on the weak, urging endurance and faith in democracy amid wartime sacrifice and national resolve.
In humane and efficient terms this note celebrates community power guiding children toward a future of stars. It envisions humane policy and collective effort delivering positive outcomes for the next generation.
A mass meeting at Italian Hall Wood Street raised funds for war affected Italians. Three Providence speakers highlighted needs and a funds committee was elected with Archille Maturi as president Rev Joseph Polya as vice president Gabriel DeFelice as financial secretary and Prof A Riccio as treasurer. Nearly $100 was collected.
Fairfax Harrison chairman of the Railroads War Board authorizes movement of what could be the nation’s largest potato crop. The crop is estimated at about 453 billion bushels, roughly 50 percent higher than last year, with movement continuing until about April 1 next year and requiring over 750,000 cars to handle the load.
In a clipped dialogue, Mrs O Flaherty and Mrs Maclagan discuss a husband facing conscription. The man has six months' extension due to work of rational deportment and is assigned to seminary duty abroad, raising questions about who can summon him when his own wife cannot.
Keith's Providence Theatre presents a strong vaudeville program with Conroy and Le Maire in For Sale A Ford and Olga Boris the Russian pianist plus Dong Fong Gue and Harry Haw in The Children of Confucius. Other acts include Al Lydell and Bob Higgins, The Three Johns, Maude Durand and Company, Dooley and Nelson, Arnold & Taylor, the Little Johns, and Keith Concert Orchestra with cut rate matinees offering 25 cent orchestra and 10 to 15 cent balcony seats.
A Brooklyn department store saleswoman remarks that a customer would look no better than a dried onion if placed in a dehydrating machine, highlighting a blunt exchange recorded by the Brooklyn Eagle.
The jaguar or tigre is the largest and most handsome American cat with a deep yellow body rosetted in black. It resembles the African leopard but is heavier and less ferocious, with no recorded attacks on humans by most individuals. In Guerrero natives hunt during the mating period using a caller to imitate the jaguar’s roar, luring it into the canyon where a hunter waits with a gun.
Swiss cantons implement unemployment insurance for contributors who prove unemployment is not their fault, with weekly indemnity and employment guarantees. Compulsory sickness or accident insurance reduces public charity reliance. costs shared by employer and insured. Other programs include domestic servant protection society coverage.
The passage notes ancient consecration of bells beyond churches, each dedicated to a saint or martyr. It cites Shakespeare's use of a midnight bell in King John and Dickens imagery of a bell in Ralph Nickleby, while the Book of Days explains brass as copper alloy in alchemical phrasing.
New York public library is the most used library on earth with a daily readership twice that of London’s British Museum and Paris’s Bibliotheque Nationale. In 1915 it lent 10,884,579 books and welcomed 2,558,717 visitors to its Fifth Avenue central building, as war boosts research use and the library becomes a vast scientific laboratory for new industries.
In a rambled exchange a passerby questions the identification of Jones as the forger. The remark implies a rapid discovery if Jones spoke, but the other responds that his stutter would have betrayed him, casting doubt on the accusation.
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