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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 04, 1899
Page
4
The piece argues that appearances and polished show hide flaws while real progress comes from strategic effort. It warns that critics may mean well yet fail to move politics and life forward. It notes genuine charity as love for others and questions earned heavenly reward.
John Walsh, chief gunner on the Baltimore, praises Admiral Dewey as an all right man. He recalls Dewey's fair justice, discipline, and kindness, including making him wear epaulettes and using the brig for a first offense. Walsh recounts Manila Bay experiences, Dewey’s calm leadership, and a personal keepsake from the battle.
Instructions describe making two nearly identical woolen boxes about 12 by 18 inches and five to six inches deep. Cover with cretonne, line with cambric, mount on four two-inch square legs, attach one box at the leg tops and the other about a foot from the floor, curtain the upper box with cretonne and drape to the legs with ribbon bows, and finish with brass-headed tacks.
A youth and others comment on misattributions and errors during a written examination. They claim Hobart Chatfield Chatfield Taylor wrote The Vicar of Wakefield and Canterbury Tales by Mr Canterbury, misidentify Mark Twain as Marc Antony, and label Wagner a streetcar magnate. One candidate boasts wisdom beyond literature while a fellow examiner humorously criticizes spelling slips like prohibit as prohibed.
The article explains that some foods are harmless to some people yet poisonous to others due to constitutional differences. It notes variations in reactions to ivy, malaria chills, and foods like white bread with alum. It warns readers to observe their own tolerances and cites the role of pure food laws in safeguarding health.
In Adelaide a dealer weighed American newspaper editions, charging 18 pence to 40 cents for a New York Sunday edition depending on weight. Cheaper Chicago and Kansas City papers sold by section cost as little as 2 cents. Three customers bought parts while one unaware of New York news until home.
A compact meditation on how global dishes entered daily fare through rewards for novelty, travelers from distant lands, and exchanges across civilizations. It credits Arabs, Crusaders, Alexander the Great, Romans, Eastern rulers, and explorers for shaping what appears on modern tables.
An authority on microscopy states that the hair of a woman can be distinguished from a man's by its construction when viewed under the microscope. The remark follows a wartime exchange between a father and son about fighting and the enemy.
Miss Frances E Mason serves as president of the National Bank in Limerick Maine, one of the state’s sound institutions. The bank was founded by her father J M Mason and has been ably promoted under her leadership.
A London paper argues a Nicotiana tobacco plant emblem should be adopted by America, praising its handsome appearance, indigenous roots in the country, and its recognized solace to humanity amid attention to a floral emblem.
An intriguing calculation shows that one pound of good coal equates to a day's work for a single man. It also notes that a square mile of coal seam four feet deep would surpass the labor of a million men for twenty years.
A remark on a shrub growing over a summer leads to a misadventure as a misdirected husband, prompted by a doctor’s prescription, slides from a fourth story window after a dispute with Mrs. Chubbs. The fir reaches 2% feet with 585 new shoots, each from an inch to six inches.
Cuba contributed about one twelfth of all tobacco used in the world before the war.
A fragmentary old text questions why men respond openly to a speech meant to convey thoughts. The passage appears cryptic, with archaic phrasing and garbled terms, centering on the act of imparting ideas and the reaction of listeners.
Veteran speaker recalls Philippine fighting habits and steel nerves learned from battle. He notes stooping increases mortal wounds, erect posture reduces severity, and many deaths come from sheer chance. The piece illustrates sangfroid and fatalism built from repeated near-misses.
A German inventor proposes a method to achieve any hardness level in steel by tempering in liquids derived from milk. He suggests that varying mixtures of fresh or skimmed milk, whey, buttermilk, and water can produce graded hardening effects similar to oil or fat-based quenching, with different stages of milk acidity contributing to the results.
London has 138564 policemen, or nineteen to every one of its 688 square moilles. The quirky stat ties force size to city area, illustrating urban policing proportions and historical measurement terms.
A humorous dialogue depicts Mr Rosser blaming rats for avoiding poison bought from a druggist. Mrs K questions the directions while Mr K jokes that the instructions claimed to spread it on a jelly cake, highlighting comic misunderstandings about pest control.
Official statistics for British India show about 21 000 people and 9 000 domesticated animals killed annually by wild beasts, highlighting the peril posed by wildlife amid colonial administration.
A note on the catty unit used in treaty ports of China, tied to early tea trade. Teas were packed in lacquer cases weighing a catty, later termed tea catties and then tea caddies. The historical trace shows how a local weight term entered Western terminology through colonial trade.
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