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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Apr 21, 1894
Page
1
Combined Wire and Picket Fence markets a durable cedar and Bessemer steel wire fence for livestock and lawns. It features pointed tops, woven wire, portability and low cost with tensile strength 8 000 to 10 000 pounds. Spruce option is cheaper but similar in appearance. Rolls ship 50 feet. Woodward Enterprise MFC Co. Robert Woodward, Treasurer.
A series of dated essays extols women as society's crown and moral guides. It argues education should focus on inner development, not mere appearances, praising virtuous influence while lamenting superficial ladylike standards. The Danbury Newsman comments on his festive, generous character and lasting kindness.
The article argues that women should be valued for their inherent qualities rather than marriage prospects. It notes women writers contend education often aims to secure a wealthy husband, treating education as a means to marriage rather than personal growth.
The Inter Ocean argues that sensational crime stories corrupt youth, citing a Decatur case where teens burglarized a farm and killed a farmer after reading Jesse James tales. It notes four Decatur papers stopped publishing such fiction and urges broader reform against cheap vicious literature.
A group of South Haven gentlemen led by Dr. W. C. Ransom budgets a three year voyage around the world in a schooner costing about 9000 dollars. Twenty members share ownership and the trip features a phonographic record, extensive port calls, and potential trade as the vessel aims to visit North and South America, the Pacific, Asia, Africa, and Europe with a final return to New York Harbor.
Commissioner T B Stockwell announces Arbor Day activities including songs Arbor Day My Maryland America and Plant a Tree readings from Psalm CXLVIII and Bryant Forest Hymn brief addresses and the Arbor Day March closing recitation and planting songs with readings of the Governor's proclamation and origin of Arbor Day.
Lloyd Phe nix and John Scuyler Crosby recovered the Kearsarge bell and the Intrepid logbook on Gayman Islands after locating them with islanders. The artifacts were sought by the state department and tied to the Alabama engagement. The navy will receive the items when Intrepid returns to New York in about a week.
A Connecticut exchange notes pear and cherry buds largely escaped frost injury due to underdeveloped state and mild March weather. Apple buds remained mostly safe, while peach buds suffered earlier February cold, with March frosts causing little extra harm.
A critique of broad schooling versus deep study argues that wide knowledge limits leisure and scholarship. It condemns substitutes like extension lectures and translated classics as easier routes and warns against the idea that brief congresses grant true expertise.
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