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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 21, 1924
Page
6
Potato Consumption Leaders In Ireland And United States
Ireland shows the highest intake with four pounds per person daily while the United States ranks second with about 200 pounds per year per person. The figures reflect strong potato consumption in both nations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ireland
Emerald Isle
United States
Modern Florence Nightingale Returns From Near East Relief
Fivefold decorated relief worker returns to America to aid the Golden Rule Day drive assisting Near East refugees and orphans. Her book Beginning Again at Ararat is used as a teaching text in schools and colleges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Near East
Florence Nightingale
America
Ararat
American Honored by 23 Foreign Nations
Charles V. Vickrey, longtime general secretary of Near East Relief in America, has been elected president of the International Near East Association, a body of representatives from 23 nations. The group sponsors Golden Rule Sunday observance on December 7 for Bible Lands refugee orphans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Thompson
Near East Relief
Charles V. Vickrey
Near East Relief In
America
Vickrey
International Near East Association
Bible Lands
Spread of coffee cultivation from Abyssinia to Arabia
The account notes coffee’s origin in Abyssinia during the fifteenth century and its spread through Arabia. It describes cultivation beginning there and coffee becoming a national beverage, inseparably linked with that region, similar to its association with China.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abyssinia
Arabia
China
Coffee's Earliest Home
The coffee plant originated in Abyssinia in eastern Africa near the Red Sea. From there cultivation spread to Arabia across the Red Sea, and it is from Arabia that the world obtained the plant and learned to use its product.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abyssinia
Africa
Red Sea
Arabia
Coffee Flowers Beautiful
The Arabian coffee shrub is an evergreen plant growing 18 to 20 feet tall under natural conditions. It has oblong-ovate leaves six inches long and two inches wide. Flowers appear in clusters, are pure white, and emit a rich fragrant odor, giving the plant a lovely, attractive appearance when in bloom.
Pumice Widespread Across Ocean Floors
Pumice is a solcanic scoria or lava forming spongy cellular material from steam or gas bubbles. It is widely distributed on earth and occurs in all deposits covering the floors of the deepest ocean basins.
Native Gutturals Moro Chess Champion Surprises Visitors
A Louisville Courier Journal correspondent notes a Moro chess player who beats any white tourist, showing literacy and skill. The piece adds that while playing he sings loudly at the top of his voice, illustrating unexpected cultural contrasts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier-Journal
Swans Not Songsters in Ancient and Modern Times
A concise note on swans noting Greeks called them birds of Apollo and two American species, the Trumpeter and the Whistler. They nest along lakes and islands from the Dakotas to the Arctic, debunking the myth that swans sing only when dying and stating they are great trumpeters but do not sing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apollo
America
Dakotas
Arctic
Tongue Troubles Betty Turns Talk Into Irony
A humorous tale describes Betty as a loquacious person whose tongue slips during meals. She bites her tongue while eating and burns it nearby, then quips she will remove her tongue at meals and reinsert it to speak.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Betty
Seven Wise Sayings and Their Athenian Sages
The Sinsings of the Seven Wise Men were inscribed at Delphi and include Know thyself by Simon of Athens Consider the end by Chilo of Sparta Suretyship is the precursor of ruin by Thale of Miletos Most men are tad by Blues of Priene Avoid excess by Cleobulus of Lindus Know thine opportunity by Pittycus of Milene Nothing is Impossible to Industry by Perlunder of Corinth
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Apollo
Delphi
Simon
Athens
Chilo
Sparta
Thale
Miletos
Blues
Priene
Cleobulus
Lindus
Pittycus
Milene
Perlunder
Corinth
Electric Ice Production Shifts to City Service
A New York artificial ice company, in business since 1900, formerly used steam power. It now uses electrical energy from a service company at 13 000 volts to convert city mains water into 300 pound ice cakes, producing about a thousand tons daily.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
That Ought to Deter Her
A Boston Transcript quip recounts a woman who often spends days with friends with her six year old son. On return home the bored boy tells her if she does not stop taking him around people will think she married a dwarf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Muuch
Boston Transcript
Milk Pasteurization Versus Sterilization Explained
The passage compares sterilization and pasteurization of milk. Sterilization uses very high heat to kill all germs but imparts a boiled taste and is rarely used. Pasteurization raises heat enough to destroy disease germs like tuberculosis and typhoid without widespread boiling flavor.
Heavenly Music and Heaven’s Concert Echoes
A Boston Transcript excerpt recalls a zealous preacher praising heaven's music over earthly concerts. He declares mad friends that heavenly music surpasses any heard and imagines the band in the United States pale beside Niagara’s roar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heaven
United States
Boston Transcript
Epidemic Strikes Wood Pigeons Across English Countryside
Ten years ago an epidemic killed thousands of wood pigeons in southern England. The birds perished in Wiltshire and Dorset, with carcasses found scattered through coppices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Wiltshire
Dorset
Nature's Own Filter Turfs Purify Sewage Efficiently
Experiments in France show natural turf can purify three to four cubic meters of sewage per day per square meter of turf.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
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