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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Nov 30, 1926
Page
4
A Nature Magazine note describes gray squirrels constructing nests high in trees. They lay a twig foundation line with leaves and bark strips, then cover with a shingle like leaf roof. A doorway big enough for one passage is left on one side.
In the Botanic Garden of Washington a historic oak planted by J. S. Crittenden in 186 marks a pivotal peace effort between Northern and Southern statesmen. Nearby stands the Beck-Washington Elm, a descendant of Washington planted at the capitol’s west front.
The Bureau of Standards explains pools of water seen on roads vanish as you approach and reappear farther ahead. Hot air near the roadbed creates a refractive effect like a mirage over hot sands, bending light as a true water reflection.
Reporters describe Marion the flirtatious thirty year old as still unmarried. Two friends debate her prospects noting she has faced many engagements and, peering into her home, suggest she is on her twelfth lap in the matrimonial race.
The piece warns about driving hazards on motor trips and stresses careful braking and steady handling. It urges cautious driving, warns against speeding, and notes the need to protect pennies and garages from costs. It reflects a vintage transportation tone with general safety injunctions.
There is no fixed waiting period between filing and patent issuance. The time depends on the complexity of the application. The patent office often lags, with letters patent issued a year or more after filing in many cases.
Principal Grant Robertson argues in a recent address that libraries should teach reading and offer literature of power rather than mere knowledge. He says universities reach few people and libraries can democratize access to transformative literature meant to counter materialism.
The phrase once linked conjuring to a solemn oath and the conjurer as a wizard. It notes Latin roots for oath and ritual beliefs of summoning spirits with power words like abracadabra. Today magic fades, yet the term survives to describe a person of notable influence.
A poetic reflection on unseen realms and the power of faith and imagination to reveal a transcendent beauty. The speaker contrasts material noise with a veil that only belief and romance can lift, asserting Virginia’s authority as the eternal reality amid earthly concerns.
A survey lists three main pygmy groups the African pygmies the island pygmies of the Philippines Andaman and the Taptros likely of African origin and the Aalatle Pygmies spanning the Malay peninsula Celebes and parts of India jungles. A New York East Side teacher relates a pupil’s guessable nativity in a quip about using the word cavert in a sentence jokingly answered as I want cavort of milk.
Columbus in 1492 named the island Cuba Juana in honor of Juan son of Ferdinand and Isabella. At the king's request the name was later changed to Fernandina.
The dumdum bullet, a soft-nosed expanding projectile first made at the Dumdum arsenal near Calcutta, India, was prohibited for use in warfare by the Hague conference.
A retired-voice aphorism on foresight arguing that planning and prudent judgment yield better results than hindsight. The author emphasizes proactive thinking and shaping events to prevent difficulties rather than reacting to them after the fact.
Jennole Marle, aged four, fell into a fish pond but was rescued unharmed. She described the incident later with glee noting only her hind feet stuck out of the water.
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