The Bristol Pheniz Weekly Publication Details
The Bristol Pheniz announces weekly Saturday publication from Phoenix Building 41 Hope St. Subscription rates include postage at two dollars for one year paid in advance, 46 cents for six months, 25 cents for three months, and 2.24 dollars if not paid in advance. Single copy five cents. No paper discontinued until arrearages are paid unless the publisher opts to.
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Bristol Pheniz
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Phoenix Building
Hope St
Remarkable Arkansas court case ends with surprise marriage
An old man faces arraignment while an old woman testifies to shield him. She reveals they were sweethearts in youth and are now husband and wife, prompting the judge to call the case remarkable and request light from the officer.
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Arkansas
Advertising pamphlet offer for medical book by A P Ordway
A promotional notice offers a medical book of one hundred pages with colored plates. Readers are asked to send three 2-cent stamps for postage to A P Ordway & Co. in Boston Massachusetts.
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A.P. Ordway & Co
Boston
Mass
Won by a bare scratch as the hen eyed the worm
A compact quip notes the hen declaring victory with a bare scratch upon finding a worm, capturing a playful rural moment in a single sharp line.
Voltaic Belt Company Promises Trial Electric Health Aids
An advertisement from Marsh Michigan promotes the ELECTRO VOLTAic BELT and other electric appliances for nervous debility loss of vitality and sexual weakness. It claims complete restoration to health with a thirty day trial for young or old men and offers a free illustrated pamphlet.
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THE
Voltaic Belt Co
Marsh
Mich
Advice to Motier Mothers Promises Quick Relief
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething pain claiming immediate relief and cures for dysentery and diarrhea. It also promotes Rough on Coughs products and Wells health tonics with various claims of curing coughs, toothache, colds, and stomach issues.
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Motiers
Mrs. WinsLow
Adam Parker and Eve Sharpe Return to Paradise
A quarrel between Adam Parker and Eve Sharpe ends with Adam leaving for sea after a kiss with Sally Slocum. Eve endures poverty as the bank fails and appliances are sold. Adam returns, buys back their possessions, and reunites with Eve as the bank resumes payment.
Miscellany quotes on manners love and life values
The page presents proverbs on friendship time kindness and manners. It muses on love improving character calm guidance from elders and the idea that small good deeds shape life while troubles and joys flip with perspective. It ends with a mountain metaphor about shadows.
Vegetine Herb Remedy Described As Pleasant To Take
A historic note describes VEGETINE as a root bark and herb combination. It claims the medicine is pleasant to take and liked by children, reflecting early 20th century tonics and consumer language.
Parker's Hair Balsam Restores Hair Color and Dandruff Free Scalp
An advertisement claims Parker's Hair Balsam cures hair loss by stimulating growth, restores natural color when hair is gray or faded, removes dandruff, and leaves the scalp cool and healthy. It states the product is not a dye and is safe and reliable.
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Parker
Infatuated Lean Youth Confesses Attraction to Woman
A lean young man admits he fell in love with a fleshy young woman and declares his infatuation in a candid confession.
Hon J H Young & Co Promises Reliable Service and Free Trial
The firm highlights its enterprise and reliability in stocking top goods and securing agencies for trusted products. It announces the Dr King New Discovery for consumption with a positive guarantee and invites customers to call and obtain a trial bottle free.
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J. H. Young &Co
Dr. King
No strength without firm resolve in right choices
The passage argues amiability lowers when weak and claims true respect comes from a strong, solid base. A person who can say No firmly when right demands it will express Yes with greater meaning in all other cases.
The Heroic Spirit in Modern Faith
The piece argues that true heroism today requires voluntary consecration beyond early century necessity. It calls for unqualified surrender to God and tireless effort for world redemption, promising divine grace and a glorious triumph when the right summons comes.
Temperance talk ends as a policeman recalls temperate past
A group in a railway waiting room discusses total abstinence when a constable arrives with a prisoner. A minister asks what the officer thinks of temperance, and the reply notes the officer has never carried a total abstainer to York Castle or Wakefield.
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McDonald
York Castle
Wakefield House of Correation
Heroine of Reed ranch foils robbery gang
In Colorado a brave daughter saves her family from two armed raiders at Reed’s ranch by seizing two revolvers from a closet and forcing the criminals to yield. The mother faints, the attackers are bound, and the men are later jailed with an eastern uncle arriving to aid. The heroine marries a Denver gentleman and becomes a society figure.
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Joe Reed
Lia
Reed
Denver
Pennsylvania
Mr. Reed
Sixteenth Street
Spare bed tale of the bishop and silver under mattress
A bishop lodging with a wealthy villager complains of a disagreeable night in the spare bed. The host’s wife returns to find her trick exposed as she reveals she hid silverware under the mattress for safekeeping before leaving.
Cathartic Pills Endorsement Brightly Praises Ayer’s Remedy
The advertisement touts Ayer s Cathartic Pills as suitable for all ages. Sugar coated and mild yet thorough in effect, the pills are claimed to cure stomach and bowel disorders with certification from eminent physicians clergy and many notable citizens.
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Ayer
The Best of Men and the Sinful Woman Quote
A George MacDonald line contrasts human worth with the devotion shown to Christ. It states the best of men are unworthy to loose his shoe latchet yet the sinful woman may anoint or kiss his sacred feet with reverence.
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George MacDonald
Ayer Pracerain Brings Purity to Blood and Vitality
Lead ing medical authorities of all civilized countries endorse Ayer's Pracerain as the best blood purifying medicine. It vastly increases the working and productive powers of both hands and brain.
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Ayer
Journey to a Far Country Ends a Mother’s Stay
A doctor visits Mrs. Marshall as her children crowd the stairs asking when she will recover. He departs for a dangerous patient, while the nurse stays discreet. That night she dies, telling the children she is going on a journey with her physician. The family learns she is gone at dawn and finds peace in her words about the were of the land where God will wipe away tears.
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Adam
Sally Slocum
Eve
Death
Scotland
Emma
Katy
Florida
South
Mamma
Israel
M. L. Rayne
Detroit Free Press
The Public Elevator A Public Building Folly
A Detroit Free Press feature mocks a public elevator installed in a building. Passers by ride it during a five day trial, each given a nickel cigarette, then report it inoperable with notices saying Not running today or Not running - weights out of order. The piece satirizes unreliable public works and the elevator boy’s frustration.
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Straners
Detroit Free Press
Ingenious Birmingham Safe Baffles Thieves
A Birmingham mechanic built a safe he claimed was burglar proof and locked inside with a £1000 note. Blacksmiths and burglars labored a week to breach it, but he remains inside. He offers £10,000 to anyone who frees him, while rumors grow of melting the safe.
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Birmingham
Rates for Advertising and Notices in The Next Issue
Advertising rates are outlined for one week and subsequent weeks with early deadline and terms. Special notices before marriages and deaths double the transient rates. Yearly contracts offered on reasonable terms with limits to the advertiser’s own immediate business.
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Pictures in a teacup fortune tellers noted
A narrator recalls a friend famed for tea cup fortunes. He secretly alters the tea leaves to change a predicted handsome suitor into a rascally tramp, then reveals the trick to the embarrassed recipient. The tale ends with the lesson that manipulation creates varied images in a cup.
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Tsacur
Nicholas
Baby with No Arms or Legs Amazes New York Family
Henry Chrispen a German laborer and his wife live in a cramped top floor room at 122 Attorney Street New York. Their baby girl born just before the sugar factory closed has no arms and no legs yet smiles constantly and grows healthy wearing wrappings that hide the anomaly. A hopeful observer notes a tiny toe on the left and a small lump where the right leg should be. The family debates superstition while the child remains buoyant amid hardship.
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Henry Chrispen
New York
Attorney Street
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