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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 27, 1922
Page
5
Olga Owens argues that a college girl faces social pressure and danger as she hides her intellect with disguises. The piece mocks era anxieties about self presentation, safety, and gender expectations, urging readers to regard her choices with pity and admiration.
A new Silent Nine silent airplane engine uses an expansion chamber at the exhaust to cool gases and mute noise. Invented by Major Grant of Croydon air drome depot, it promises easy conversation aboard flights and can be sold for under £10 with growing demand.
The article in Conquest credits the father of Spanish painter Zuloaga with reviving the Moorish art of damascening. Toledo damasening is the inlay of gold on steel where thin gold wire is laid into carved lines on blackened steel to create flowers beasts birds and scrolls. The finished works are highly prized by collectors.
The article suggests weaving began with primitive women making baskets and gradually moving to clothing. It traces steps from twisting wool into strands to creating taut threads between poles, leading to the invention of the loom. It highlights early tool use and the transition from basketry to fabric creation.
A note explains the modern use of vamp as a verb meaning to extort money or valuables and to flirt, tracing its roots to the Kipling poem The Vampire. It describes the figure as a carefree woman described by Kipling and notes the evolving slang usage.
The administrative council of the committee for aeronautical propaganda offers one million francs for an air plane engine that endures severe tests of durability reliability quick dismantling and reassembly. Tests start in June 1923. Competition is open worldwide.
Hap py Littleton a southern middleweight champion is noted for a baritone voice and a taste for classical literature He recently battered Billy Shade in New Orleans and has won decisions over Joe Chip Battling Ortega Joe Borrell and Jack Bloomfield A prominent American Legion boxer with national laurels
Maj. Gen. John A. Lejeune, commandant of the United States Marine Corps, accepted an invitation to the fourth annual American Legion convention in New Orleans in October. He praised the Legion and said Louisiana, his native state, makes his attendance a privilege. Lejeune’s career includes Spanish-American War and World War I service, notably commanding the Fourth Brigade of Marines in the Second Division at St Mihiel Meuse Argonne and in the Rhine area.
Edinburgh resurrectionists Burke and Hare lured travelers to lodgings, suffocated them, and sold bodies to Dr. Knox. Burke was hanged in 1829 after at least 15 murders. Hare fled to England and vanished. The verb burke derives from Burke's killing method.
An explorer’s account from a research trip to South Georgia, the gateway of the Antarctic, depicts Shackleton’s burial site with vivid images. The piece notes a lone island woman, Capt. C. A. Larsen’s Norwegian station, and close views of glaciers, seals, penguins, albatrosses, sea elephants, skuas, petrels, and the antarctic tutlark amid a tranquil polar landscape.
The piece recalls Phin Kibbs in the Berkshires, a amiable but quiet fisherman who seldom spoke. While fishing for pickerel and bullheads by kerosene light, a lone political remark about Roosevelt ends the night, praising a humane companion who knew farm politics and fishing.
Governor Cox signs a bill expanding the state veteran bonus to over 400 more World War II veterans. Eligibility rests on residency in Massachusetts within a year before enlistment or if the veteran’s parents were residents a year before enlistment, even if the veteran served elsewhere.
Marshal Joffre was greeted by American Legion officials at Pennsylvania Station in New York. Mme. Joffre went upstairs to wait for the crowd. A New York officer ordered her to move on, but a rescue party led by General Bullard arrived and escorted her to her waiting car.
The veterans bureau hospitals seek reconstruction aides in physiotherapy and occupational therapy for disabled World War I veterans. Applicants are not required to take written exams. ratings depend on education training experience and physical ability. Details available from the U S civil service commission Washington D C.
A widow with a strong will leaves her husband nothing but a dollar after accusing him of desertion a year earlier. The lawyer reveals the bequest and the man asks the amount then wonders aloud if the dollar comes with any instructions.
The Seattle American Legion investigates claims that prison labor is used to undercut private industry.
The will of Alexander Louis Teixeira de Mattos, English translator of Fabre and Zola, bequeaths mostly books. With estate under £8,000, he leaves gifts to friends including a volume he notes as one borrowed years ago and not returned.
An illustrated Popular Mechanics article shows a new attachment replacing round wheels with two large sprockets to increase bearing area and pulling power. Cast steel arms extend forward and downward from each sprocket with a front idler wheel, and a track tread loops around to enhance stability.
The Washington Star notes that liquid hydrogen is the lightest known liquid with a density roughly one fourteenth that of water, matching the gaseous density ratio to air. It recalls that liquefied marsh gas once held the lightest liquid record at about two-fifths the density of water.
The 225th anniversary of Trinity Church's charter by King William II was marked with morning and afternoon services in the old church at Wall Street and Broadway. More than four thousand attended as Bishop Manning recalled Trinity's history and foreseen future. The sermon was by Bishop Tuttle, aged eighty five, who once worshiped there and recalled the prince of Wales among the congregation. The original charter and first communion relics were shown.
Twelve motors depart from Taggart at the Algerian railway terminus led by Commandant Lafargue and joined by a dozen delegates from government departments and a motion picture operator. The route passes Insulah Hogger Adar Iforas to Bureni Niger about 120 miles east of Timbuktu. Precautions protect fuel from evaporation in the desert heat, though experts note this proves feasibility for special missions not routine commercial use.
A family names a newborn Kathryn despite resistance from a wealthy aunt who then fails to attend the christening dinner. the narrator finds Aunt Kathryn unexpectedly arriving by car from Chicago, revealing the aunt’s finicky generosity.
Prof Edward Sapir director of the anthropology division at the Victoria Museum in Ottawa warns in a New York lecture that busy New Yorkers risk losing the art of speech. He notes stenographers and telephone operators create barriers and that even as a New Yorker he finds social interaction rare, comparing modern city life unfavorably to primitive living.
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