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Recently his Majesty the King opened a section of the Great West Road, commonly called the Bath road, which runs from London to Bath. A fine stretch of road already joins Bath to Bristol and a further stretch of improved road is to connect Bristol with Exeter and Plymouth...
...Aside from these, the only foreign capitals in which the U. S. is not represented are Moscow and Constantinople?with neither of which the U. S. has had any formal relations since the War. Rear Admiral Mark L. Bristol, with the title of High Commissioner, represents U. S. interests at the latter spot...
Dick Turpin. Tom Mix displays his values in the present film with the aid of silk breeches, boots and a feathered hat He plays the famed bandit who robbed to help the poor. Beside robbing, he fights barehanded with the Bristol Bully, makes love, sticks up a bishop. A sense of comedy assists materially. Many critics noted that Tom Mix is acquiring agility, more resilient than that of Douglas Fairbanks...
Then the Pennsylvanians. One Joseph R. Grundy of Bristol, Pa., manufacturer of woolens, told how he and one W. L. Mellon of Pittsburgh had canvassed Pennsylvania's 81 counties by letters "to everybody, irrespective of race, creed, color and previous condition of servitude...
Yachtsmen were somewhat surprised at the absence of a Herreshoff-designed boat among those picked. The Herreshoffs of Bristol, R. L, are descended from an ancient line of New England boatbuilders. John B. (died 1915) blind from boyhood, was a great ship-designer and head of the firm, but it was Captain "Nat" Herreshoff (brother of John) who made the name famous. He invented a cata maran that sailed 21 m.p.h. He also introduced the "fin" keel for racing sloops, now used the world over...