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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1873
Page
2
A dispatch argues for balanced child labor and schooling, warning against early work and cram schooling. It urges gradual education, rest, and play to preserve health, morals, and true knowledge, while criticizing excessive zeal for learning and the Vienna Commission fallout.
General Butler’s letter on salary steal draws a sharp critique from Hon. Geo. F. Hoar. The Worcester representative labels the Essex member unfavorably, highlighting frankness and plainness in the rebuttal. The piece questions executive missteps and warns against adding such a name to New England’s historical roster.
The Massachusetts Republican State Central Committee rescheduled the Worcester convention to September 10 due to hall booking from September 17 to 24. The change shifts the event to avoid conflicts with the venue.
A writer recalls a summer ascent toward Whiteface Mountain near Sandwich New Hampshire describing the route from Fogg's farm house to the summit four miles distant and 4500 feet above sea level with views of Winnipissogee Ossipee Lake Chocorua and Mount Washington The account notes mossy woods spring water and a mossy bed for a noontide rest and ends with a nostalgic wish to repeat the trek each summer.
A Boston newspaper owner arrives in New York and rebukes European hotel fare noting prunes and sour wine while praising Grand Central Hotel. His acquaintance lactates with a sharp quip about steamer life as Powers and others hear the honest critique from the elevator.
Epuunp D. Scudder son of Judge E W Scudder of the Supreme Court died at Point Pleasant from congestion of the brain caused by heat and excitement during a baseball game. A Princeton ’70 graduate and promising young lawyer, he had married four months earlier to a daughter of Senator Hewitt and was spending the summer with that family.
The Bristol Train of Artillery with about seventy men and the American Band toured Oak Bluffs and Edgartown Martha's Vineyard. Gov. Howard and Gen. Burnside led dignitaries, endured a fog delay, and survived a buggy accident on their return trip. The parade through Providence and Bristol ended with speeches and praise for the corps.
The Congregational Church hosted Bishop Howe from Central Pennsylvania in the morning service and Rev. Dr. Vincent from New York City in the afternoon.
The drowned George Yusser’s body was recovered near Mount Hope Bay and identified in Fall River after an inquest, then brought to Bristol for funeral services at the Steam Engine Company No. 1 hall conducted by Rev. G. L. Locke, with burial plans in Troy, N Y. A Bristol Town Council adjourned session named jurors for the September term and probate administrators for Ruth Smith and Mary T. Smith estates. The Bristol Base Ball Club issued resolutions mourning George Yasser and expressing sympathy to his family, announcing a 30 day mourning badge and publication in the Bristol Phoenix.
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