18 Aug 1883
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1883
Page
1
A mother recalls her son’s curls and the scorn he faced as a child. She frees him from the hair, watches his pride rise, and later mourns his death in her arms. The poem blends memory of tender tresses with a final reverence for the boy who has passed to heaven.
A mother recalls her son Jack, scarred yet beloved, who grew up loving trains and plans a first ride with his father. She describes their close rail yard life, the games on the floor, and the moment of taking him to the engine, where pride and worry mingle as he asks if he is grown enough. The tale ends with Jack asking about the Wings of the Wind.
A mother recalls her son Jack Harding, a skilled schoolboy inspired by steam to trust God and stay faithful. After a lung fever and a severe work injury, he saves passengers during a Jersey Express run, reversing the engine to brake a doomed train. At a memorial gathering he declines a cash gift, choosing to give money to Brakeman Jim Flaherty’s bereaved family instead.
A fanciful tale from Madrid features a senorita aiming a pistol at her head to shock a photographer, then marrying without incident, followed by assorted promotional blurbs for Ely's Cream Balm and various patent cures, with brief quips about hay fever, turtle heads, and soda flavors. The item blends fiction with consumer ad copy and short anecdotes.
Excerpts caution on defamation and anger, urge charity and perseverance. Marcus Aurelius and J A Froude quoted on temperance, happiness, and suffering. Nean Poirter argues state duty to teach temperance in schools for public welfare.
The article presents varied excerpts on exercise, reform, and public virtue. It discusses prudent living, the mind’s thaw like spring after steady argument, and urges active participation in worship and church life with humorous anecdotes about shoemaking by Mr. Parnell in 1880 Lynn.
In Dennisville near Woodbine a ten square mile swamp hosts windfalls of white cedar trees buried for centuries. The logs are dug up with iron rods, cut into shingles and staves, and sold at high prices for use in Southern New Jersey construction. The labor is brutal but lucrative, with logs rising surface to float and reveal underwater trunks.
The text explains that calories in food could raise 340 tons one foot high daily, with most energy used to keep the body warm and active. Only about a tenth powers movement, leaving a roughly ten percent profit. It suggests this profit supports a good living and encourages striving to reach it.
E S Yates of 99 Essex Street Lawrence Massachusetts endorses Sulphur Bitters as a remarkable blood purifier. He notes many cures once deemed hopeless and says the medicine’s sales are so large he could not keep shop without it.
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