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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 06, 1922
Page
3
Listing describes a corner location commercial stores and residence with steady income at $13 500 half cash. Includes a cottage with extensive land centrally located and a three family house with a large cedar barn on a 70 by 126 foot lot priced at 7000 dollars.
The week features Gleam O’Down with Jack Gilbert and Barbara Bedford, plus Mary Pickford in Suds set in a London slum laundry and The Skipper’s Sermon with Dan Mason. Also Penrod on Monday and Tuesday with Marshall Neilan’s adaptation, plus the daily notes on notable historical curios.
Comets visiting our region are brief events with telescopic visibility typical for at most two years, the longest period a comet has remained visible.
Uncle Eben laments it is easier to give a man a gold brick than to offer valuable advice for free. The quip suggests a comic take on generosity and wisdom in everyday dealings.
A bustling helper matches needs across items and lives. A lost purse is restored and homes find occupants. Furniture finds new homes, attics emptied, and a house goes to new owners. A second hand car seeks buyers while bookkeepers and clerks rely on this service to keep payroll moving.
The term merry Andrew traces to Andrew Borde a learned physician who died in 1545. Hearne notes he visited markets and fairs where crowds gathered as he prescribed medicines and delivered humorous speeches to draw people and spread his fame.
The opal is linked to misfortune by Rabbi Benoni in the fourteenth century and to discord in love. Another authority warns of bad luck when given as an engagement token. October is said to be the month of hope for opal wearers.
A Scientific American note warns that a true flame colored sunset during hurricane season below the 185th parallel may precede sea swell and upper cloud movements by 24 to 48 hours. It urges haste to safety as the sole timely warning of a dangerous tropical storm of small diameter.
Two parcels in Bristol, one at 41 Union Street and another at 923 Hope Street on the Main Road to Warren, are to be offered for sale at auction per a Superior Court decree. The parcels include a quarter acre tract with improvements and a second lot by Mill Pond, both bounded by named old owner properties and streets, with taxes and highest cash price backing the sale.
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