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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 25, 1919
Page
4
An old health advertisement claims kidney trouble causes many illnesses and promotes GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. It urges readers to buy the product from their druggist, promises quick relief within a day, and advises ongoing use to maintain health and prevent future attacks.
A Tasmanian insect in the northeast is described as pale greenish brown and about the size of a sunflower seed. Its tail, three-eighths to a quarter inch, lies flat in peace and rises vertically when threatened. Its diet features mosquitoes and its early life includes patricide within the family web.
A historical account states that virtually all Peruvians are coca chewers. It notes the coca plant’s long cultivation, its leaves providing endurance at high altitudes, suppressing appetite, and enabling long periods without food.
A Thanksgiving prayer asks almighty God to guide the nation through unrest with confidence and courage. It pleads for unity among diverse peoples, gratitude for harvests, and steadfast faith in divine love, urging thanks at the Thanksgiving Board and blessing for those near and far.
A historical view challenges the marine theory of gold formation, arguing that mineralizing solutions rising through rocks deposited gold in reefs and rocks. It notes evidence from old Australian mines where reopened workings show richer rock deposits and gold impregnation in beams and timbers.
The Eddystone Lighthouse sits on the island considered the smallest year round inhabited land in the world, marking a notable geographical distinction for the remote outpost.
The Savings Division of the First Federal Reserve District warns New Englanders and national investors about dishonest promoters targeting War Savings Stamps and Treasury Savings Certificates. It rebuts false claims that thrift securities are redeemable only if sold immediately and notes that face values rise with time. A satirical example of a fake prospectus shows how gullible investors chase “sure pay.” The piece concludes that Thrift Treasury Savings Certificates remain the safer investment.
In September Massachusetts topped New England in Thrift Stamps War Savings Stamps and Treasury Savings Certificates with sales totaling 250 819 44 dollars. Its year to date sales reach 5 675 053 88 dollars. Rhode Island and Connecticut follow with 75 507 69 and 69 664 56 respectively. Maine 32 120 80 New Hampshire 48 401 73 and Vermont 23 227 08 complete the regional figures.
New England schoolchildren earn hundreds by salvaging junk from attics and cellars and exchanging it for Thrift and War Savings Stamps. Mrs H Parker Whittington notes thousands participate daily, teaching industrious thrift while reducing fire risk by cleaning yards alleys and cellars in effort highlighted during Boston Fire Prevention Day.
In Coblenz German households suffer soap scarcity as American occupation troops arrive. Women repair clothing, dusters scrub gear, and soldiers face rough life with improvised substitutes. Germans offer a fake soap that lacks cleaning power while pepper becomes a valued staple. The piece, from The Spiker of April, notes soap and pepper rival comforts for soldiers.
Actor Robert Hilliard recalls meeting a young Mary Pickford in Toronto decades ago when she offered to work as a child for the film The Littlest Girl. Pickford quips that his memory for faces failed though she says he told her to wash her dirty hands.
A wife laments her six month marriage as her husband spends evenings at his club. A confidante reveals the husband once knocked a burglar senseless with a poker, joking that his poker skills came from the club.
A new rescue cage hangs from a fire ladder. A steel cage attached to a wire cable lowers from a pulley to windows, carrying four passengers safely. The device acts like an elevator without a shaft, operated by a cable drum on the fire truck.
A classroom scene features a master testing students on a rabbit. Rupert, a bright youth, answers with a sly remark about the rabbit having a tail but noting it must not talk about it.
A teacher defines element as the substance that makes a thing, uses earth as example with water and air, then asks sixth graders to use the word in a sentence. Henry writes that water is one of the elements of milk, illustrating a misunderstanding of the term.
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