03 Dec 1892
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1892
Page
1
The notice describes interest pardon deposits with checks at ripelit and convenient facilities for executing business for executors administrators and trustees as well as women unused to business and religious and benevolent institutions in need of services.
At the annual meeting held on the Sth inst officers for the ensuing year were elected President William Spooner Vice Presidents Henry Gof Augustus Bourn John G. Watson Trustees Charles H. Deriigh George St Farrington Thomas Holmes Samuel Colt J B Pearce I F Williams John B Herreshod Ezra Dixon Alfred Lather William Hodgkinson Deposits from five cents to one dollar or more earn dividends with interest compounded September and March. Bristol June 13 1880.
Providence address listing for Sheldon and Binney, located at 28 Westminster Street. Indicates business presence or listing in local directory. No further context provided.
An Atlantic account describes Signor training a canary named Dicky. Requiring daily, at the same hour, mild but firm instruction, the bird endures many trials before yielding. Rewards follow progress as the trainer demonstrates persistence and gentle handling.
A Scottish advertising note offers a Dr Kaufmann disease book for ten dollars with illustrated plates, sent via three 7 cent stamps to A P Ordway & Co Boston Mass. The piece then discusses rapid 19th century construction in London and the Comet lamp using crude oil vaporized and pumped to a burner for night work, as reported by New York Telegram.
Sufferer for 20 years finds immediate relief from Ely's Cream Balm. User reports no headaches sore throat or sleep loss since using the balm. Endorsers include R G Vassar of New York and S A Lovell of Franklin Pennsylvania calling it a valuable cure and worth its weight in gold.
A poem by Mrs. H. K Potwin from Good Housekeeping extols the postman Jaden bearing secret treasure and comforting letters. It highlights daily service, moral influence, and the fragile power of words to cheer or wound, ending with the postman’s brief, hopeful visits.
A boy with a bruised face explains a stunt to his father and learns a moral lesson about not being stumped. His mother reads about steadfast figures like Columbus and Washington, then contrasts brave refusals to foolish dares. Bobby absorbs tales of honor, reads of Mose Putnam and a Broadway wheelbarrow dare, and realizes true courage lies in prudent choices.
A shaky rock report from Crawfordsville Ga parallels Kentucky finds. Just one ten thousand dollar note remains from an issue of four thousand. A meteorite a foot across fell at Livingston Manor N Y and shattered a rock much larger. The Salt Lake Mormon temple opens April 6 1898 after forty years work costing 2500000. A New York exhibition features a woman eight feet six inches tall and a paper notes her height as tall and well formed.
A historical note details the dangers of butter in digestion due to fat emulsions slowing gastric work and germs in dairy. It cites dairy handling, rancidity, and claims many dyspeptics cured by discarding butter. The piece also explains star time, sidereal clocks, and time signals using a transmitter tied to the seventy fifth meridian.
A survey of jewelry trends and small luxury items worn as fashion statements. Heart shaped brooches, pearl pendants, gold net purses for the poor, tiaras worn at back of the head, tiny baskets and opera glasses as stick pins, rainbow gem combinations in necklaces and bracelets, and novel round disk pins with central stones. Also notes on imitation cheap pins and perforated gold ornament.
A lively defense of rural and natural play for children against overprotective urban upbringings. Emphasizes dirt, sand, dogs, gardens, and open-air learning as essential to healthy growth and imagination, citing nature as a guiding teacher.
A German statistician reports on spouses ages across European capitals. He finds marriages most common when the husband is two or three years older, while women under twenty often marry men six or seven years older. he notes small percentages for reverse age gaps and rare extreme differences, with notable data on ages of men marrying under twenty.
George W. Jones of Osage township saw a woman with a spade paying her poll tax as he entered town. He felt compelled to act and paid her tax for her, noting the scene grated on his sense of the eternal fitness of things. The Nevada Mail reports the anecdote.
Miss Alice Woodbridge of the Working Women's Society analyzes trades for women, noting piano tuning and nursing as promising options while warning against limited opportunities in drug stores and silversmithing. She argues dressmaking and millinery offer the strongest independence and wages, with industrial shifts toward male-dominated ready made garments and shrinking female roles in shoe making.
Judge Gatewood of Cincinnati Ohio reports relief from rheumatism after using Salvation Oil. He says the first application brought relief and he has not been troubled since.
Receives 25 cents in stamps for trial bottle. claims to promote digestion without injury and remove diseases from indigestion. Headache relief linked to stomach disorders. Distributed by Rumford Chemical Works, Providence, R. I.
A succinct remark notes that fixation on being first blinds one to the vast scale between achievement and infinity. The speaker highlights the idea of immense, unseen quantities separating success from ultimate limits.
The article surveys iron bridge life spans amid fifty years of railway expansion, noting suspension bridges often fail by corrosion and girders may decay unseen. It critiques locomotive-load tests as inadequate proxies for overall strength and urges robust testing, with a future shift toward masonry bridges for longevity.
The New York Times reports that women increasingly open bank accounts with Lincoln National and Fifth Avenue banks, each hosting over 1,500 female depositors. Lincoln plans interior changes to better serve women, with $1,000,000 of deposits attributed to female customers out of $6,633,000 total.
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