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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1928
Page
7
Readable fragments discuss a Greenland whale with a cavernous mouth and whiskers inside the palate. A separate aside mentions people playing cards in an ambiant area, and details about what the whale teeth and baleen support.
Fragmentary OCR suggests a 1680 moon map appears in a historical atlas. Researchers note the incomplete line with entities like Moon and map, while other details remain unreadable. Further restoration is needed to confirm authorship and context.
Fragmented OCR text describes unusual temperatures and fires with references to February and a day named Zon Chriat. Mentions hours and various readers or observers providing data but details are unclear and garbled.
A humorous phrase said to describe a stock action nicknamed the Irish dividend and its misapplied effect, noted in a historical column. The piece critiques a misdirected tax or equity maneuver and its comic outcome.
The Washington Star notes rapid growth in liquid oxygen output from 1909 to 1925. By 1909 production reached 8,140,000 cubic feet with many plants, warehouses, and distribution stations. By 1925 output climbed to over two billion cubic feet while production costs fell from 4.7 to 1.098 cents per cubic foot.
Fragments of a chat describe a couple planning to see a film about Java with a vague plot. They hash a missing star name and vaguely reference a tall blond actress recently divorced, creating a humorous misidentification.
A Sunday school scene has seven year old Alice answer Eve’s creation by rib a Adam whisperers. She blurts The rim of a nat, humorously mishearing rib as rim and Adam as nat.
Descriptions of Jewish lamentations at the waiting walls in Jerusalem in the eighteenth century. Prayers organized by R Samuel guide rites for entering the city. A devout alien Jew rends his garment reciting Isaiah forty four ten. Favorite laments include Jeremiah four and five and the seventeenth verse of the first chanter.
The War department reports Germany used gas for the first time in World War I. The gas release occurred on April 22 at 4200 p.m. on the Relzulm front between Bixschoote and Lange march north of Ypres.
An article notes Robert Louis Stevenson’s Fifteen men on the dead man’s chest linked to pirates of the Caribbean era. It mentions Dead Man’s Chest Island in the Virgin Islands and a Chilean coastal church built from ship timbers with a bell bearing the chant.
The piece surveys drought rituals in various regions. Chinese dragon god processions confront drought by prayer and punishment. Bantus of Delagoa Bay sing of dry wells as mothers of twins carry children through fields. In Greece and Yugoslavia a flowered girl leads wells and springs, bearing rain prayers to towns, villages, and homes.
Reported in a level barren region of Nevada are tiny stones from pea size to 0 inches that, when spread within a few feet, roll toward a central point like eggs in a nest. A stone released from a distance moves rapidly to rejoin its group. The stones are said to rest in basins in the rock soil, with lodestone or magnetic iron ore likely causing the movement.
A six year old boy receives a quarter from his grandmother who visits him one evening. He wonders aloud if she dies, recalling grown ups saying he will get a large sum when she is gone. The remark hints at family dynamics and the boy’s growing awareness of money.
Alexander Graham Bell is awarded the Volta prize of 50,000 francs by Napoleon for the telephone. He uses this and other funds to found the Volta bureau to promote knowledge about the deaf. The bureau prints and distributes hundreds of leaflets yearly for the hard of hearing and for parents of deaf children.
The article traces chowder to Brittany where fishermen shared ingredients in a common cauldron named chaudiere. It notes Americans adopted the dish from French influence via early colonists, linking chowder to New England history.
An observer claims birds can greatly reduce flies with the black capped Wilsons flycatcher catching about two thousand green flies from roses in a few hours. Wrens and other birds are described as constant eaters. a mother wren was seen feeding young up to 38 times in an hour, removing insects and their eggs.
The article explains that the philosopher's stone was an imaginary substance once believed by ancient alchemists to turn base metals into gold. It notes that seekers of quick riches chase this mythical shortcut.
Stanley Baldwin notes the Authorized Version of the Bible has shaped ideas and traditions for three centuries, influencing literature and childhood memories while coloring national culture.
A fragmentary passage imagines the oceans as trackless wastes where no ships pass for ages. It contemplates routes from Fremantle to Durban and the silent expanse where a lone derelict vessel may drift for years.
A Rhodesian woman farmer and her companion discovered quartz during a picnic. That night she dreamed of a gold mine on the site and a share worth 250000 dollars. Prospecting began and soon a valuable reef was located.
Dr W J Long argues that Robert Louis Stevenson borrowed the plot of his novel Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde from Edgar Allan Poe's William Wilson. The claim cites parallels between the two works and distinguishes similar themes of dual identity.
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