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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1929
Page
5
In YMCA league play Tuesday evening the Dorkc Club toppled Collins and Aikman 468 to 467 for a clean three-string win. YMCA No. 1 team also won two strings over Team No. 2 as F. Gladue rolled a three-string total of 111 with scores of 108 97 and 106.
The first impeachment of a high government official in America occurred on June 27, 1689. Sir Edmund Andros, royal governor of New England, was impeached by the Colonial assembly in Boston and sent to England.
Advertisement touts Tanlac as a stomach remedy that cleanses and heals, preventing pimples by improving digestion. It claims undigested food poisons the body, causing skin blemishes, and promises faster appetite return and skin improvement. A money back guarantee is offered if it fails to help.
William Brahmstead Jr., 50, suffered a head injury when Timothy Sullivan, a retired Fall River patrolman and the boy’s grandfather, struck him with a claw hammer during a play session at 1602 Hope Street. Sullivan, believed mentally deranged, was detained for safety after hospital treatment for the dangerously injured child.
The Congregational Baptist Methodist Episcopal and St Michael's churches unite for a public Thanksgiving Day service on Thursday November 28 at 8 o'clock in St Michael's Episcopal church. Rev Mark Strickland of First Baptist will preach and St Michael's choir will provide special music. All are invited.
BORN in this town on November 19 20 21 and 18 a son Gaetano and a daughter Florence Marte and Rosylyn to the Balzano Cappabianca Dunbar and Vaccaro families. newborns listed with street addresses and parental names.
In this town November 21 Mrs Jessie Davis widow of Manuel Davis of Provincetown Massachusetts aged 62. Manuel Coile Silvia aged 56 years also noted in town death notices.
In a Brockton scene, local youths gathered around a circular table for a playful session of a number game called five and ten. A hostess serves sandwiches while the group searches for a missing sixth and delights in a baby’s act, prompting plans to move the game to the club.
The article traces early credit for artificial silk to England and France. Dr. Robert Hook proposed mechanical silk production in Micrographia 1604. The first artificial thread machine appeared in England. Louis Schwabe patented in 1840 in Manchester, later dying by suicide. Spinnerettes now widely used with significant investment in England.
The article recounts 16th century tension over the crown monopoly on printing the English Bible. In 1537 Richard Grafton was imprisoned until he pledged not to print English Bibles without royal permission. The right to publish English Bibles remained controlled by printers tied to English universities.
A prospective maid outlines terms to the mistress: $15 weekly paid in advance, no washing or floor scrubbing, no work after six, every evening off, and a fine reference now. The mistress asks for the letter later, but the applicant insists on the immediate reference.
The New Orleans Item Tribune quotes Will Durant noting that every vice was once a virtue and could become respectable again, even hatred in wartime. The piece invites readers to examine their own virtues and vices tonight, exploring border habits that seem neither clear vice nor virtue.
Nova Scotia doctors removed a cat's heart and inserted an electrically operated rubber heart. The artificial device maintained blood circulation for several hours while the cat remained alive. The report notes that while rubber hearts can work temporarily, no man made engine can replicate a natural heart.
The passage notes Valencia on the Spanish Mediterranean coast with a climate steadier than the Italian Riviera and French Cote dAzur. It mentions common regional exports: Valencia and Malaga raisins Denia oranges Larcelona nuts and Tarragona wine used as port on British tables.
A garbled note mentions Professor Huelgen of the Illinois College of Agriculture and an eerie odorless comfort threat. The fragment hints at a strange agricultural dispute or experiment.
The poem speaks of autumn's calm and beauty across hills and valleys. It contrasts scarlet orchards, ripened grain, and colored leaves with the worker's life, ending with a prayer that autumn will see the speaker's labors complete. Isabella Bosworth signs as the author.
A fragment from the Weekly Scotsman notes the waistcoat Nelson wore at Trafalgar and the bullet hole that ended his life. A nurse tells children that if the hole had been mended earlier the fatal shot might not have occurred.
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