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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 09, 1873
Page
1
Job Maxwell frets over replacing a plain fence with a more stylish one at a neighborly cost of twenty dollars. Mrs. Maxwell counsels patience and faith while the couple faces temptation, pride, and the lure of social appearance.
Job Maxwell pours funds into costly upgrades after a cheap fence. A bay window and Mansard roof drive a single mortgage to ruin, then a second mortgage, and finally a sell off to a modest but happy home. Self help and restraint restore peace.
A satirical look at how townsfolk pressure the local journalist to hype ventures. The piece skewers free publicity, boastful locals, and vanity puffs as agents chase favors, gossip, and “five dollar” praise, while the journalist endures two hours of lectures and unpaid effort.
A young woman at a Tuscaloosa party was asked if she reads Shakespeare. She replied with a toss of her head that she has read it since it first appeared.
A compact selection of aphorisms contrasting editorials with prose on genius, humility, and virtue. Dryden quotes on aging hearts mingle with religious ideals of heaven within, stressing character over occupation and condemning affected eccentricities in true genius.
The passage compares daily drudgeries to weights that regulate Time. When people neglect duties the pendulum stops and the clock ceases to move, implying purpose and routine sustain life’s rhythm.
The article argues annual vacations renew health and spirits for overworked people. It emphasizes change of scene, companions, food, and air as essential to intellectual and moral relaxation, breaking the monotony of daily worry with new sights and experiences.
A reader's sketch describes Sunnyside after Washington Irving's death with visitors limited by a gate warning of a guard dog. It notes Sleepy Hollow Cemetery nearby and then details Malagasy low country houses with thatched walls, elevated floors, sparse furniture, and a custom of showing the clean mat side to visitors. It ends with a shifting tale of shaving brushes containing a diamond discovered in a hollow handle, possibly linked to smugglers before the war.
A English medical man develops a device that makes flesh transparent to expose internal organs. The piece jokes about diagnosing stomachache lobsters or clams after meals, finding slipped ribs, inspecting brain ideas, and monitoring rheumatism. It predicts doctors and undertakers would lose business.
The piece argues that a bouquet depends on thoughtful arrangement not mere collection. It stresses symmetry of form color balance with white and green, and contrasts bold versus delicate hues. It notes scent as vital and warns some flowers should not be used in bouquets, while any plant can add charm with proper placement.
A Temple Bar note laments that no original Shakespeare manuscript survives and that only a few signed deeds bear his name, noting the impossibility of a Hamlet holograph and the high value placed on any genuine writing by the author.
The London Orchestra recounts a Birmingham incident from fifty years ago where actor Macready saved a child from a burning house. He then stole a coat to deliver it to a bystander, only to be reversed when the pawnbroker identified the garment through a fire report, exposing the good deed and the thief.
A Chicago hotel displays a bull head bulletin board causing animosity among rival lines. Three men demand beef cuts as a joke, leading to a sharp response from the landlord who orders removal of the bull head. The railway agent retrieves the sign the next day.
The article argues that drinking water, especially in summer, becomes a habit leading to excessive perspiration and fatigue. It cautions that excess water burdens the skin and kidneys, urging moderation to avoid exhausting the system and to maintain strength.
The city sits on seven hills with the Seraglio and St Sophia on hill one, Omar on hill two, Solyman the Magnificent on hill three, an ancient aqueduct linking hills four and five, and colorful domes and minarets. Its breezes from the Bosphorus and Thrace aid its salubrious climate, while old walls along the land side remain largely intact though some sea walls near the Golden Horn are gone.
A Newport seaside note describes Cliff Cottage hotel an experiment two years old proving successful. The colony includes a small hotel eight cottages and well kept grounds on a cliff by the sea. Lodgers hire a cottage for the season dine by meal service with food delivered to the table and a servant assigned to each cottage. The arrangement offers hotel life freedom without a housekeeper and costs are reasonable, appealing to Americans who find it fashionable.
Wednesday evening a girl watches for Charles from the window as her younger brother Heneree strains to tie a knot in a cat’s tail. She worries over his late arrival and recalls his plans to see an elephant while carting a gas round and treating her to ice cream.
In a courtroom pause a juror asks Uncle Joe to tell a pioneer tale. He recounts buying land, sharing a cabin with a stranger who steals his belt at night while he sleeps, then slips away unchallenged as Joe remains passive and later retrieves his money belt’s value.
The notice outlines ad rates at 1 000 square for one week and 25 cents per extra square, with special notices for marriages and deaths at double rates. Transient ads require advance payment and yearly advertisers have limited privileges to their own immediate business. Ads must be submitted by noon to appear in the next issue.
The narrator recalls thieves targeting money belts while Mother and he hide double eagles inside his coonskin jacket. Laughter fades when a bailiff arrives and the Judge, after supper, releases them from durance in a brief, humorous scene.
The article offers Irish method for boiling potatoes with cold-water soaking to remove impurity and brackish taste. It covers boiling new potatoes with salt and butter or milk based dips, mashing with butter and milk, making potato paste shapes, and a potato salad with oil parsley and optional anchovies or meats.
Boil and mash potatoes then mix with three pints mashed and three quarts rich beef stock. Season with pepper and salt, sieve back to the soup kettle and simmer five minutes. Serve with fried bread or add peas onions celery and rice boiled together before mashing and straining, then simmer and finish.
An explanation of why dark rosewood is valued for furniture, noting its rose fragrance when cut and its large timber. It discusses varieties in South America and the East Indies, uses for wide planks in piano tops, forest scarcity from high demand, and Madras government planting programs to sustain supply.
Eating too much and too fast and swallowing incompletely chewed food. Drinking poison whiskey and other intoxicants. Keeping late hours and sleeping late. Tight clothing and thin shoes. Not enough exercise to warm hands and feet. Poor bathing and open pores. Wearing light clothes in warm rooms at evening events. Starving the stomach for dress desires. Constant mental stress. Using cheap doctors and quack nostrums. Irregular meal times.
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