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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1904
Page
4
The Mexican Herald notes a fading siesta tradition in Mexico City as modern life with railways streetcars and electric lights brings sleeplessness. Some supporters warn of nerve strain if the custom vanishes, urging a routine of early rising and a short postdinner nap for better daytime performance.
The article traces tea use back 2000 years B C in Chinese literature. It recounts King Shen Nung She boiling water when tea leaves fell in, creating a life giving elixir. Tea was soon esteemed in oriental cities and shared as a royal gift.
The diary recounts Lincoln as a frank sincere man with a lawyerly mind. Emerson recalls his cheerful sincerity and careful fact presentation while debating Gordon the slave trader with Sumner. He notes Lincoln’s fidelity and conscientiousness, and a witty anecdote about Emerson’s Kentuckian remark.
In early last century England, a Lewes to London stagecoach firm cut fares and offered inducements. To ease early travel, lazy passengers could ride overnight to Brighton with free beds, then catch the morning coach to London.
A doctor and patient debate a cure requiring three months of travel. The patient objects on cost, the doctor prescribes daily visits at home, and the patient decides to travel after all.
The bride nearly fainted during the ceremony and required support from her father who also supports the newly married couple.
A humorous exchange shows a landlady questioning why a boarder now wears glasses. The reply blames the need to make the food appear larger. The gag hinges on visual exaggeration and kitchen humor.
A brief quote from the Philadelphia Bulletin features a man shouting at a waiter for salt and pepper over a berry, illustrating a humorous or odd dining moment. The fragment captures a casual street newspaper voice and a playful exchange without broader context.
Proposes waiting for appetite to improve digestion and reduce indigestion. Warns that eating out of habit or avoidance of hunger dulls salivary and gastric secretion, hindering food absorption. Suggests fasting when meals feel dull and urges eating slowly when hunger returns, citing physiological and spiritual angles.
The article describes Adelie penguins as curious fast movers that belly-sprint on ice and swim with skill. It notes their coordinated marching like soldiers, and contrasts with emperor penguins weighing sixty to seventy pounds and standing over three feet tall, capable of powerful flipper strikes and loud vocal exclamations.
In the Himalayas sheep, plus mountain sheep, are favored carriers along steep trails. They carry 17 to 25 pounds, endure harsh cold better than yak, and accompany Nain Singh on a 1000 mile trek. Loaded with borax up high, they descend to plains for wool, grain, or salt.
Mrs. Giles questions Silas about spending money on a specialist. Silas says he feels fine now and the doctor advised to follow instructions to prevent a recurrence. Mrs. Giles reacts, upset that the money might have been wasted yet Silas believes he improved.
A tale recalls the French Abbe Modest Abbe Delile who housed a fiery relative. During a heated exchange the relative hurled a heavy book at him, which he caught gracefully and remarked that he preferred smaller gifts.
A humorous exchange shows Mr Wilson astonished by sealed pockets of his overcoat. Mrs Wilson explains she sewed up the pockets to mail an important letter to her milliner, urging him to post it promptly.
A compact proverb notes that an orator or author is never successful until he makes his words smaller than his ideas. Emmerson.
Dr Gaston Lalanne told the Grenoble congress of French alonists that anxiety disturbs the entire being with physical and psychical symptoms. He cited cold feelings chills dizziness and digestive troubles as physical signs, and vague dread phobias and obsessions as mental signs as halucinations may occur.
A brief biographical sketch of English comedian Sam Vale later known as Sam Weller. It notes his popularity in early 19th century England, his role in The Boarding House, his signature lines and Sam Valerisms, his private wit, even temperament, and the attribution of Weller to his portrait in Pickwick. Vale died in 1848 at fifty one.
A historic tale traces the American weeping willow to a twig sent from Smyrna to England, grown by Pope, then carried to Boston and finally planted near Abingdon Virginia by John Parke Custis. The tree's lineage supposedly started the American weeping willow dynasty.
London News notes naturalists record that a sea anemone divided longitudinally can regenerate into two separate animals if kept in pure sea water. An old zoologist recalls an anemone partly swallowing an oyster shell, which severed the animal and yielded two complete anemones. Even fragments attached to rock can later grow new bodies.
Soldiers in the Russian army hold a strong belief that they will enter heaven in a better state if they are personally clean at the moment of death. Before battles Cossacks and other Russian troops perform their rites, dress in clean clothes, and wear their best garments.
Dolly quips Marie learned with her left hand to wear her engagement ring on. The dialogue hints at a playful domestic moment and a celebration of a romance partner. No further context provided.
The president of the Girls' Club announces a $40 treasury, sparking plans to host a charity ball with input from the chorus. The exchange hints at community fundraising as the club explores a social event.
A compact quotation attributed to Goethe states that accepting good advice raises a person’s capabilities. The line emphasizes learning and self-improvement through wise counsel.
A testimonial from Mus B A Anderson of Jacksonville Florida extols Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound as effective for female ailments. The letter claims rapid cures and lasting benefit, offers a $5000 forfeit for proof of genuineness, and warns against substitutes.
London Nature notes debate the snipe drum. A observer proposes the outer tail feather, swung rapid, creates the drumming as the bird circles high and descends, wings flexed, tail spread. The sound echoes the hum of a thrashing machine and accompanies a specked bird in a dramatic aerial show.
The article traces ancient Peruvian suspension bridges built from twisted ostera and bamboo, notes frail crossings on the Cuzco to Quito route, cites early Chinese use per Kircher, describes Europe’s first row suspension over the Tees in 1741 for miners, and spotlights the 1816 emergence of modern suspension systems with 100‑foot bridges at Galashiels and Peebles.
Wm Kirmie a bridge crew member near Littleport fell ill with cramps and a cholera like illness Thursday night. Crew assisted him until Mr Gifford recommended Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. Several doses restored him by the next day. The Elkader Iowa Argus notes the medicine never fails and urges keeping it at home, sold by W H Baffington.
May Day has long been a time of rejoicing with flowers birds and nature’s renewal. From Roman Floralia to Celtic Beltein heathen fires on hilltops, peoples from Ireland the Isle of Man and the Scottish Highlands celebrated with field revels as spring bursts forth.
The text argues the diamond likely originates from a vegetable source supported by Newton Brewster Jameson and Lavoisier. It explains the crystalline form arises from heat and diamonds occur in igneous rocks and mica slate, suggesting metamorphism possibly from internal geological heat or volcanic action. It discusses direct and indirect heating scenarios and the cooling of crustal rocks forming diamonds.
A Chicago Chronicle philologist argues Niagara should be pronounced with the emphasis on the penultimate syllable rather than ag, noting that many Indigenous names place stress there. He cites Toronto Mississippi Alleghany Appalachicola Narragansett Tuscaloosa Saratoga Ticonderoga Oswego Conshohocken Wissahickon Hochelaga and a Huron source to support the claim.
An Irishman charged with a petty offense seeks character by claiming the chief constable will vouch for him. The judge asks for witnesses and Pat proudly testifies the chief constable would know him, but the officer protests ignorance. Pat insists his twenty years in the borough prove his character.
A German periodical asserts a single predecessor of Queen Victoria held multiple royal titles across realms. It states he was William II of Hanover and Ireland, William III of Scotland, and William IV of England, combining an unlikely sequence under one person.
A Philadelphia Ledger quip notes Mr. Olden seems less youthful, as an observant man observes he no longer jokes with the nearby undertaker who once drew his humor. The remark hints at a quieter, more serious mood change.
A fragmentary note mentions Carrie-Goofiness and the bore Wilkins. It hints at an absence and a request not to tell a story while noting no one has returned yet. The context suggests a personal or domestic correspondence preserved as a readable snippet.
The Newport and Providence Railway announces a detailed timetable for Week Days and Sundays with Newport bound departures to Providence from 6 45 am through 9 45 am and evening times. Bristol bound from 7 00 am to 10 15 pm with connecting boats. The timetable notes boats connect with all cars and wait ten minutes if late.
Regular service between Providence and Bristol details weekday and Sunday times. Weekdays run from Dorrance Weybosset at 5 45 a m every 30 minutes to 7 15 p m then hourly to 11 15 p m. Bristol terminus departures start 5 19 a m every 80 minutes to 8 48 p m then hourly to 10 49 p m plus 11 49 p m and 12 41 a m to Riverside car house. Sunday service begins 7 45 a m from Dorrance Weybosset and 6 49 a m from Bristol with half hour then hourly runs to late evening. Cars leave Franklin streets six minutes after terminus departures.
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