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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Sep 04, 1925
Page
4
Lebanon Ind Reporter notes a group of boys laughing at a slipping elderly man on a muddy banana peel, but a passerby counters that old age still finds humor in daily falls. The piece muses on how humor changes with age from childhood to grandparenting.
Three large bowls dug up in a Budapest slum garden were mistaken for brass planters. Gold ornaments including rings and animal figures were later found to be 2,600 years old and highly craftwork. National museum confirmed the find as a major antiquity. rumors of further excavations follow.
Census figures show 1910 had 37 272 blind Americans while 1920 total rose to 42 567 despite population growth. Proportions vary by state from Wyoming 154 per million to New Hampshire 1 538 per million with New York and Indiana at intermediate levels.
W H Fletcher of Brant Alberta writes to the Department of Agriculture arguing against provincial coyote slaughter policy. He says jackrabbits harm crops and trees and coyotes once kept rabbit numbers down. If coyotes cannot prey on rabbits, rabbits may become a worse pest, as in Australia.
B F Creighton of General Electric explains lightning fatalities favor picnickers and soldiers due to noon fires creating an upward charged current. He advises campers to string wires across trees above their fire to safely discharge the charge.
John E. Madden, renowned horseman, has created a burial plot in Lexington for notable racehorses. The cemetery holds at least ten history making horses, with Madden hopeful it will become a Westminster Abbey for blooded turf animals.
An article explains the Scotch plaid as a woven garment and pattern, detailing Gaelic etymology, clan associations, and color schemes. It describes variations like royal, hunting, and dress plaids, and notes the use of plant-based dyes and the enduring appeal of tartan in Highlands traditions.
English artist C. W. R. Nevison denounces Westminster Abbey as a department store in spirit, saying the overfull memorial statuary hides many beautiful items. Canon Westlake and other lovers of the historic building agree the ecclesiastical junk should be pared to reveal unseen treasures.
An investigator studying local customs visits a Punjab village drought plagued for long. Anxious women plead to drench him to invoke rain. After refusing for two days the officer relents on day three. Twenty pots of water are poured on his head and within 24 hours rain arrives.
The skeleton of Tracery the famous racehorse bred by August Belmont at Lexington Kentucky has been presented to the Yorkshire Philosophical Society and is exhibited in its museum in York England. Tracery earned nearly $100,000 in stakes and sold for $265,000 to Senor Unus in Buenos Aires in 1920, the era’s highest price. He returned to England in 1928 and died at Cobham stud Surrey four months later.
A child named Little Bobbie Knotts could not reach a bucket on the cabinet so he laid a newspaper on the floor and stood on it. When asked why he used the paper he said it would raise him higher. The remark was cited in the Indianapolis News.
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