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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Oct 30, 1931
Page
6
This is one in a series about aims and activities of the Te Rea association. The banner year is touted by Mrs. F Reginald Dimond, president, as plans unfold for the organization.
The Parent-Teacher Association hosts an evening benefiting charity with a lineup including Girl Scout Troop II skit The Burglar Bold and Young People's Fellowship act Izz and Dizzy Revue along with music and dances all starting at 8 o’clock and prizes at 11 o’clock Proceeds support community welfare and youth programs with an emphasis on education and collaboration.
In an interview Mrs Ruggeiro questioned a proposed new distribution plan for food orders favoring merchants with large customer accounts. Rev Mr Parsley endorsed form driven orders to curb overcharges while Sec. Walsh and others urged equitable handling. The committee deferred ejectment cases to the courts and planned to contact two grocers cut off from food orders.
Obituary notices record deaths in town with names Mrs Tha Cook Johnson Mageee and Mrs Caroline Bacon Magee aged 80 and Paulino Vona, noting dates October 27 29. Public notices list local residents and dates of death.
The text details Charles Carroll and the Carroll family building the 21 room Tuscarora mansion at Doughoregan manor with two wings and a central cupola, later houses for his son, and notes descendants still occupy the later estate. It covers Samuel Chase founding Chase House in Annapolis in 1768, its back stair, Palladian window, and its current use. and William Paca's 1763 Paca House with five foot thick foundations, later governor’s mansion in 1789 becoming a hotel.
A Springfield Republican report cites German scientist Doctor Sorge and colleagues describing Greenland as a vast ice bowl with depths reaching 8,850 feet in measured areas. Using seismic echoes and small explosions, they test the theory continents drift on a semi liquid layer and Greenland rising as ice melts.
A London Tit Bits note explains how the term forlorn hope arose from cardsharpers in Elizabethan days. It describes how a small attacking group sacrificed itself to secure victory for a larger force and how modern tricksters use the idea as a deliberate risky ploy to provoke dupes.
A compact glossary of cloud names and descriptions. Currusdetached clouds appear delicate and white. Cirrus stratus forms a thin whitish sheet. Cirro cumulus has mackerel sky patterns. Alto cumulus shows larger rounded masses. Alto stratus forms a gray bluish dense sheet. Strato cumulus consists of three lumpy gray rolls. Nimbus denotes dense dark clouds with heavy rain or snow. Cumulo-nimbus is the thunder cloud with great dark masses rising like towers.
London resident G Brook claims he can read character from a handshake with seven types cited as tepid topener top firm hesitant unnatural too prolonged and fingertip. He says he has helped 10,000 men secure jobs across business sectors through his handshakes.
Scientists at a university traced manna to sap from a tamarisk tree species. The substance forms when a tiny insect pierces bark, causing sap to exude and crystallize into white grains. Analysis identifies sugars including glucose fructose and sucrose, linking the famed desert sustenance to plant resin exudate.
A quotation noting success hinges on cooperation and harmony in work and progress, stressing getting along with others as essential to advancement. The statement underscores social cooperation as a key driver of success in contemporary times.
Detroit News reports that two skulls near Peiping described by Prof G El Not Smith and Dr Davidson Black indicate a more primitive pre human form than Sinanthropus and Pithecanthropus. The adolescent boy skull is cited as older than Java man, suggesting the direct line to modern humans was nearer in time.
Colonial households carried warming pans from England to the New World. These 14 inch vessels featured brass covers and metal scrollwork, with iron cavaliers and ornaments. They were prized for their practicality and decorative value, reflecting enduring English taste in the colonies.
The ancient Montreuil near Etaples sits along the Boulogne Amiens route with Roman stones at its ramparts, once a Druid camp and site of The Green Place. Caesar, Napoleon and Britain’s wartime chiefs left marks as the sea receded and the town's history blended with tourism and legend.
Mr Justice Day cites Lord Eldon on goodwill in the 1915 Des Moines case. Goodwill is the value arising from favorable customer regard toward a well conducted, established business, indicating the likelihood of repeat patronage by old customers.
A fragmentary reminiscence evokes Jeanne d Arc in her youth near Arc, with mentions of Domremy as the place of visions and calls to deliver France. The text suggests visiting Domremy for authentic memory, noting that cottage museums and basilicas may distract rather than aid the experience while all the journeys and misdirections are left unclear.
Dr Jesse Williams of Columbia University argues that emotional states like worry rage and prejudice shape bodily functions and digestion. He contends that sound mind reduces stress and may boost efficiency and happiness by regulating emotional responses.
A young boy about age three visits a station with his father. While a limited train roars by, the child hides and declares his fear, saying his face is the only part that fears the noise. The moment captures a child's terror and a parent’s calm presence.
A fragment notes a father and son moment with remarks about an unusual experience and a presidential scenario. It mentions Dadler Webster being rejected as a party heir and the offer of the vice presidency under Taylor, suggesting a refusal that would have made him among presidents who died in office.
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