13 Dec 1895
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1895
Page
1
The store offers towels with colored borders at 25 cents and higher quality options up to 75 cents. Handkerchiefs in multiple colors and prices, silk initials, mufflers, and a full range of novelties. New stock includes ties suspenders kid gloves cuffs shirts and Gloria silk umbrellas priced from 90 cents to 2.50 dollars.
A reading blends anecdotes from 18th century roadways between Kensington and Knightsbridge with accounts of highwayman exploits in Hyde Park. It recalls the Walpole incident, the fate of McLean, and courtly society’s reaction, then shifts to a lively New Haven College Boy letter and remarks on Senator Sherman, President Cleveland and notable press figures.
In the Punxsutawney Spirit account a Bradford resident aboard a Buffalo Rocheser and Pittsburg line train confronts an intoxicated woodsman who claims to be the best man on the train. After a calm rebuke, the Bradford man strikes, sending the aggressor sprawling. the attacker suffers a head wound requiring five stitches.
A fragmentary exchange from a Boston Tran script scene features Fenderson and George debating a line about a ship and a woman in grays. The quirky banter ends with a boastful, humorous moment as a character awkwardly puns on corsets and theatrical conceits.
The text notes that the 86534 day cycle known as the Sothic year derives from Sirius, the Egyptian star used by observers in ancient times to organize the calendar and keep time.
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