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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1923
Page
4
A London Telegraph observation contrasts old home life by the fire with modern comfort. It notes a mother managing a ten member family while her daughter Kitty sings while doing laundry. The piece then shifts to a New Republic piece about garages replacing kitchens as the new center of domestic worship.
Describes snakes as scrupulously clean in nature and captivity. Notes shedding skin for renewal and that wild serpents appear tidy, with smooth scales seeming silky and keeled scales resembling velvet. Concludes there is no slime in the serpent’s making.
The American Legion Weekly editorial urges an international conference to limit air armament. It notes that sea power was settled by the Washington Conference and land power by reducing armies, but air power remains unaddressed and delays only worsen dangers.
A new pupil with two lectures improvises by naming aurora borealis and delirium tremens when asked for botanical terms, stunning the examiner and challenging the teacher's confidence in classroom preparation.
In captivity the laughing jackass does not smile yet its morning and evening laughs echo loud. Found in Australia the bird laughs in LibertY habitat and nearby homes raise stress as the curious birds watch people at work. They are drawn to church music and occasionally disrupt services with their terrifically loud laugh.
A Royal Air Force pigeon released from a balloon a mile and a half above ground could not see the earth due to thick clouds and settled on the balloon. After a cloud gap opened it swooped down and delivered a leg tied message two hours later, suggesting homing by sight rather than instinct.
The article explains that no living being can see the sun’s solid surface, only the photosphere through the chromosphere, with sunspots spanning thousands of miles. It notes the vast scale of solar layers and compares solar heat to a tiny fraction of Earth's exposure, citing a Louisvill e Courier-Journal remark.
A poetic meditation on winter’s quiet, nature’s gifts, and the enduring beauty of frost, ice, snow, and sunrise. The prose links calm winter to future vitality, praising skies, landscapes, and the season’s subtle splendor.
The article explains salmon migrate to headwaters and lakes to spawn not in the lakes themselves but in streams, creating nests in gravel and guarding eggs until the young are ready. It links Andrew Carnegie’s warning about betting everything on one basket to the salmon’s protective behavior. Predatory enemies loom as a ongoing threat to the species.
A boy asks about what he takes to the afterlife after Sunday school. The teacher explains that good things go to the better land while the naughty stays on earth. He contemplates and concludes he will be very thin up there.
Large animal fossil deposits found on a Detortello farm in Spain. One specimen measures 76 feet, another detached head about 386 feet. Scientists have inspected the discovery and deem it highly important.
The British annual colonial report for Gambhin notes the completion of wireless telegraph and telephone stations at Bathurst and McCarthy Stand, 170 miles apart. These stations support internal communication as the colony expands its telegraphic network.
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