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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1894
Page
1
Ladies and children s jackets and underwear promoted with low prices. A large stock from 12 to 60 cent dress goods and a featured 3.87 dollar ladies jacket emphasized to attract shoppers seeking value and quality. Local store touts extensive selection and statewide pricing.
The document describes a Participation Account with deposits due by the 15th of November February May and August. It earns interest from the first of those months. Dividends are August and February. The account combines savings bank advantages with the security of the company’s capital stock.
A nostalgic piece by William Allen White in the Kansas City Star celebrates a practical, even keel outlook. It argues that happiness comes from balance and steady effort rather than extremes, urging readers to accept fair to middlin days with resilience.
A dying girl Martine seeks confession from an angel and is told to return a stolen rose colored kerchief to Babette. She vows to live the night to restore the kerchief, disguises her departure, and travels to a village dance where she loses herself in life and youth before dawn returns.
In a fairy tale ending Martine leaves her promissory fate with the angel and flees with the prince. She returns years later to her mother and grave, only to be joined by the prince in mortal form and enter paradise together at last. Saint Peter notes the soul was prepared for heaven as they depart hand in hand.
An Electrical World piece claims muscles in animals can gain about 40 percent mass through periodic electric stimulation. It suggests night time automatic devices could enlarge desired muscles without gym work, balance or tune up uneven development, and even restore age related atrophy. It speculates on future bone growth and the potential for producing giants electrically.
The London Star recounts Lord Denman visiting a west end hatter over an overdue account. He asserts that a tradesman's bill remains unpaid only when the debtor discharges payment, then offers to settle the bill and buy another hat to show no ill will.
A lavish Saratoga Springs wedding features Ethel Charlotte Jones and Lawrence Minturn Kortright. gold and diamond gifts, gowns with chrysanthemums, and a European tour follow their New York departure after vows performed with a family ceremony.
The Kentucky Poultry Association announces a national reputation show featuring dressed poultry, turkeys, pheasants and Plymouth Rocks. A banquet is planned December 13 with cash prizes totaling 122 00 offered by the New England Barred and White Plymouth Rock Breeders Association. Entries close December 1. Lectures by the State Board of Agriculture are free at Blackstone Hall. Exhibition runs December 11 to 14 from 10 am to 10 pm.
Rogers Free Library lists new arrivals not previously published in Tas Poenix. Titles include Caroline Creevey Recreations in Botany illustrated 12mo New York 1893 12842.58 Anne Hollingsworth Wharton Through Colonial Doorways 16mo Philadelphia 1893 12843.91 Phillips Brooks Sermons 6th series 12mo New York 1893 12844.26.
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