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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1921
Page
6
A family notes the death of Ben and, during a prayer, Jack hears his mother say Bennie the rabbit died today. The record captures a quiet family moment linking Ben’s passing to a child’s faith and a pet’s fate.
Maurice resists and Robert senior urges discipline. Robert grabs Maurice by the collar and warns that he has no father to answer to this time. The scene portrays a tense confrontation and a shift in authority.
A reflection on how mastering concealment in pose and sentiment helps social success. The note suggests artful restraint and composure as essential in daily interactions.
A woman tells how she avoided revealing her home to her escort after a dance. They walked past a pretty house she claimed as hers, then he exclaimed he lived there too, prompting a shocked reaction and a curious exchange.
The London Chronicle reviews fiction noting absurdities in Baronne Orczy Petticoat Government and Miss Stevens The Well with moon imagery. It also cites Miss Marie Corelli Treasure of Heaven describing bringing eight Highland bull heifers from pasture.
A Greek figure named Stentor was famed for a voice as loud as fifty men, inspiring the modern term stentorian. The legend ties the name to exceptional vocal power before Troy.
A Garfield quotation honors brave men who dare face evil and declare it. It praises courage as mankind’s admired trait and frames bravery as confronting the devil in his own face.
An estimate puts the expenditure at 10 billion dollars to equip American farms with all tillage tools needed to raise production to the highest possible level.
Holland has begun to produce salt from wells drilled experimentally in two provinces. The early tests indicate potential to obtain enough salt for its needs and support its industries.
Fragmentary notes recount a puzzling tale involving a character named Deddy, described as half coyote and half Indian dog, bought 16 years ago from Comanche bands in Oklahoma. Witnesses mention fear and grief, with references to WellsEarned and a public company.
Edward P. Warner compares two World War I era flights describing a close enclosed cabin with minimal ventilation and a second flight in a fighting plane where wind force on the head is extreme. He notes the subtle wind disturbance at 135 miles per hour and the danger to hair when the head rises above the aircraft body.
A Parisian housekeeper, long without a servant, hired a promising maid who started well. She cooked dinner excellently but left at 8:80 to perform in a chorus at a music hall, risking a fine. The mistress found the arrangement incongruous and ended the experiment.
Among war cures, the sleep bath at Enham Hampshire stands out. A thousand acre estate treats disabled men with various baths, especially the sedative bath. Patients lie in hammocks as water flows over them and the hammocks are submerged with water near body temperature to soothe nerves. Any non incurable disabled ex soldier may apply via his local pension committee.
Polley the human fly who scales 37 story Woolworth Building says building tall climbs are safe balance tricks. He spent nine years mastering it and claims no risky habits, never dizzy, except once when a fellow flyer fell and knocked him down.
A Florida landlord alerts a departing guest rushing to catch a train that he dropped a pocket book. The guest replies he has no further use for it and does not stop. The exchange is noted by the Boston Transcript.
Fragmentary notes reflect Sen. views on temperance policy and prohibition. The text hints at self-revelation and critiques of total abstinence while acknowledging imperfect adherence to ideals.
After the 1917 victory, British rail expansion links Egypt to Palestine at Ramleh near Jerusalem and Haifa as a rear port for a new line to Baghdad and India. Labor from prisoners aided Taurus tunnels and tunnels under way from Constantinople to Nisbin. Night services began on the Nisbin segment, with rebuilding expected to shorten Constantinople to Baghdad trips to a few days.
The Grendon Underwood estate in Buckinghamshire, owned by Mrs. Pigott, is slated for sale over the coming months. The property centers on Shakespeare Farm, once the Old Shippe inn where Shakespeare allegedly stayed during travels to Stratford.
About 2,500,000 acres in Wyoming Idaho Utah and Montana containing phosphate deposits are divided into arenas not exceeding 2,500 acres each. The lands await leasing legislation and regulations approved by Secretary of the Interior Payne. Applications for leases go to the local land office for transmission to the Interior.
Alabama led with 6.84 million bushels in 1919 while five other states yielded 8.4 to 5.5 million bushels each. U S peanut production totaled 38.863 million bushels with a cash value near 0.0. Last winter average price paid was 2.40 dollars per bushel.
Trucks in use reached 958,008 by year end 1919, up 27 percent from 1918 and outpacing passenger car growth by 16 percent. Only eighteen states kept truck registrations. New York led, followed by Illinois, Ohio, Pennsylvania, California, Texas, and Nevada near the bottom.
Fragmented OCR notes show a Defence Hal Defiance event and a First Baptist Church society sale. Specifics are unclear but reference to upcoming gatherings and a sale at a local venue, with dates around late month.
A fragment reflects on duty as a personal ideal. It contrasts imagined perfidy with actual kindness to friends, affection for family, and harmlessness toward others, presenting duty as humane conduct.
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