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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 22, 1929
Page
6
A historical overview traces Gypsy origins to northwestern India with dispersal through Kabulistan Mersia Syria Egypt and Turkey. It notes many European dialects of their language and the long held beliefs linking them to Egypt while correcting misconceptions about their lineage.
The article recounts the Dunmow Flitch tradition in Ilfeld England with a preface by Father Roe and details of how a wedding pig offering evolved into the flitch award. It notes the ritual’s aim to prove wedded happiness and outlines the historical controversy over the pig’s ownership and the fairness of the award.
Brook Farm established in 1841 near Roxbury Massachusetts under George Ripley and his wife as a cooperative venture with 200 acres. A small stockholder group ran a simple shared work system and paid wages while selling farm products and maintaining a school for children. Noted reformers such as Nathaniel P. Tallmadge, Charles Fourier, Margaret Fuller, George W. Curtis and others were linked to the project before it dissolved in 1847 after financial losses.
In Boston a lecture by Teter Gashel critiqued wealth as ostentation. He argued the rich prize wealth for show and noted a guest with a large diamond necklace drew little attention despite its conspicuous display.
The chief commissioner General Blamey, establishing a library at barracks, notes a new country youth librarian who replies that only three morning papers arrive, as readers ask for The Pickwick Papers and the struggle for better reading habits continues.
Workmen from a Providence based wrecking firm have finished removing the former home of the late Dr Charles Doringh and later Miss Pauline Natale Doringh on the west side of Hope Street just north of Bradford Street. The site, once a showplace with rare shrubbery and flowers, is now cleared for possible Industrial Trust development.
A fragment reporting mail chaos at the General Post Office New York where 350000 pieces daily are misaddressed and about 80000 letters only bear the words New York. A large staff sorts and redirects the junk advertising mail amid the misdirections.
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