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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1923
Page
4
Wednesday and Thursday showings feature Jack Hoxie in The Forbidden Trail for the men and Dolores Cassinelli in The Challenge for the ladies. Screen Snapshots highlights the film program with two star profiles and brief captions.
A clay tablet from 2100 B C offers a new Eden version. It claims Adam was expelled not as punishment but to prevent immortality. The note appears alongside a tale of risk taking by an Insurance solicitor in a small film sketch.
A Geneva birth of a twenty fourth child sparks a London paper to compare large families. It cites Cumberland history noting a couple with thirty one children going to church for their thirty first christening in 1797.
A pair of maids in dialogue joke about suitors at a dance. One boasts about many young men paying attention while the other quips that imagining them yourself makes the attention unnecessary.
A description notes strict social rules in Spain where women reportedly must be accompanied by a servant for ordinary activities. It claims women cannot walk to tea, visit a dentist, or attend amusements without a chaperone, and must wait for the servant to fetch them home.
In a Richmond Times Dispatch piece a fourteen year old named Mickey OToole creates chaos at home smashing chairs and a Venus statue, injuring nothing, wielding a hatchet, and finishing with an odd dinner remark about his energy and calisthenics.
The porcupine is described as a skilled bluffer who puffs himself up like a chestnut burr and rattles his quills as if in a joust to appear impregnable. The text notes that if frightened, the rattling would continue, suggesting the noise serves as self-encouragement as well.
In Greater New York during Safety Week scouts led a 7000 strong Children’s Day parade, directed traffic, gave first aid demos, and wore buttons with the slogan Dont Get Hurt. A monument in Central Park honors 1054 local children lost to preventable accidents. Scout Samuel Levine received a gold medal for life saving amid multiple daring rescues.
Captain Francis Gidney of England, a leading scouting figure and Gilwell Park camp chief, attends the international conference in Paris and the Blue Ridge gathering in North Carolina. He highlights rope work and American Indian and cowboy life influences and hopes for stronger ties between Britain and the United States scouting movements.
Seventeen year old Frank Bedson, who suffered infantile paralysis as a child, hiked the 2 to 4 miles with the Trenton scouts to Fort Ticonderoga. He told Scout Executive Abriels the hike left him feeling wonderfully improved and sobered him more than anything else.
AID COMMERCIAL TRAVELERS Scouts aided the New England councils convention in Springfield Massachusetts by running information and aid stations furnishing a bicycle safety first squad a comfort squad traffic guards and a fife and drum corps and by entering a float in the pageant of Industry on the convention's final day.
The message emphasizes belief as love and willingness to serve others as the core of scouting. It frames service to peers as the guiding motive and highlights moral duty within the scout movement through a concise philosophical reflection.
In Springfield Massachusetts Troop No. 12 honors Mayor Edwin F Lee for backing the Scout movement. During twelfth anniversary week he received an honorary tenderfoot badge as mayor and a veteran pin as a private citizen. Troop No. 12 is named The Mayor's Own.
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