04 Apr 1885
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1885
Page
1
A young German girl from a Hudson River town wrote to the Empress of Austria seeking a scholarship at a new school for girls of limited means. The Empress approved the request and followed the girl’s visits with personal interest. A noble County visitor then proposed marriage, with the girl awaiting her father’s consent as preparations for a prosperous alliance proceed.
Dr W Kirjy explains that muddy bottoms at Naql and Alloppy harbor oil deposits likely beneath the sea floor or along the coast. He suggests petroleum oozes up from these deposits stabilizing waters despite strong southwesterly gales.
The Voltaic Belt Co of Marshal Michigan promotes Electro-Voltaic Belt and other electric appliances on thirty day trial for men with nervous debility, loss of vitality, rheumatism, neuralgia, paralysis and related diseases. Complete health restoration guaranteed with risk-free trial. Send for illustrated pamphlet.
A Victorian patent medicine advertisement urges mothers to use Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children claiming instant relief from crying and pain. The copy lists cures for dysentery, diarrhea, wind, teething gums, and general vitality, plus references other products like Rough on Coughs and Wells Health Renewer with price claims and world-wide availability.
In Payneville a bound boy named Ben Ballard defies cold and fear to save passengers from a burning railroad bridge. He skates across treacherous ice to warn a late train, signaling with a lantern and narrowly escaping danger as the engine halts in time. Ben reunites with family, proving faith and bravery.
A column of moral reflections on good temper and polite behavior followed by a colonial style anecdote about polite service in Boston stores. It includes a tale of a customer asking for a conveniently sized hat and a reminder to show gratitude. Then a humorous report from Scotland where geese haul fish for a fisherman and pigs chase salmon in Washington Territory.
A brief endorsed ad urges taking Ayer's Cherry Pectoral to guard against a cold developing into serious throat and lung diseases. The remedy is claimed to treat colds coughs catarrhs bronchitis incipient consumption and related ailments.
An advertising pitch urges exhausted farmers to buy six bottles of Ayer's Sarsaparilla for five dollars. The copy promises the medicine will refresh them and even “pay compound interest on the investment,” framing health as a smart financial move.
A Georgia woman dies during chloroform extraction at Dr Osborn’s office. A second patient endures sixfold anesthesia to extract teeth, then remarks on the fatal risk. A New York surgeon reports a potential eye anesthetic using hydrocholorate of cocoaine, with promising painless cataract removal. An old song analysis links Sing a Song of Sixpence to a day’s passage from dawn to dusk.
The meanest milkman yet has been found in Pennsylvania after investigations revealed he adulterates his cow's food with chalk.
An advertisement touts Parker's Hair Balsam as the solution to hair loss. It claims rapid coverage of bald spots, color restoration, dandruff elimination, and a cool scalp feel, describing the product as safe, non dyeing, non greasy, and highly perfumed.
A youthful question asks when is ideal to relocate with the cue that the dog signals readiness. The terse remark notes the dog’s alert as the trigger.
The piece promotes Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption and colds as a life saving cure. It claims it cures consumption, coughs, colds, bronchitis, asthma, hoarseness and throat lung ailments and offers a free trial bottle at J H Young & Co’s Drug store.
A reader from Waterbury Connecticut recounts a cure for a chronic liver complaint after following a draggist recommendation. Sulphur Bitters were taken as directed, and the writer reports becoming a well man after three bottles.
A roundup mentions Stanford purchasing a Dry York residence, a Whitfield County grave enclosed by iron, London Lancet on fashionably tall women, and a French mother’s quip about marriage. It notes Coney Island hotels losing money, a skeleton with ball and chain found near Savannah, and John W Garrett’s devotion to his wife.
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