18 Dec 1869
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1869
Page
1
Public notice outlines weekly advertising fees for notices including marriages and obituaries. It describes subscription terms, insertion deadlines, and timing rules for ads to appear in the next issue, with special classifications and charged obituaries.
A portrait of George Peabody highlighting his early schooling, frugal London years, charity work, and business acumen. The piece notes his memory, anti fraud stance, philanthropy including public buildings in Essex County, and his insistence that education be valued for future generations.
The Colt residence in Hartford is praised as the handsomest in the United States with a vast gallery of paintings by Church Bierstadt and other leading artists. A monumental son and widow plan for an elaborate funeral monument while the Colt Memorial Church near the estate stands as a costly, perfect temple of worship open to all.
An exphane recommends salt gargles for throats and dry hacking coughs. Dissolve a large teaspoonful of common salt in a teacup of cold water and gargle thrice daily before meals. The writer claims winter coughs and colds were avoided and the cough disappeared.
An old Indy figure argues that preventing explosions hinges on engineers abandoning on board steam cooking. She claims all the busting stems from cooking the steam, and urges engineers to “bite their water on the shore.”
The Journal of the Farm argues that superior stock costs the same to keep as inferior stock and yields higher prices and productivity. It urges farmers to adopt proven breeds of cattle swine sheep poultry and other farm stock, noting widespread resistance to livestock improvements.
Stroo Fry tags the fly as the most independent and irresponsible animal, contrasting it with earthworms bees spiders and ants. The photograph portrays a fly roaming free in air and home with capricious zest, feasting on sweets and horse manure, refusing guidance or work.
The passage extols the word Come as the sweetest biblical term. It claims Jesus and the apostles used it to invite weary souls to rest and life. It describes Come as a key note of the Gospel and a summons to drink freely from spiritual waters.
Home baker Sarah Perry of N gives a Graham bread method using warm water, coarse flour, yeast, molasses, butter, and soda. The dough rises to the dish top and bakes for about three quarters of an hour in a moderate oven to yield two loaves.
In 1861 a brutal raid on the Cody homestead ends with Buffalo Bill and Wild Bill trapping a Cheyenne force. They rescue the family, repel attackers from the darkness, recover and pursue the fugitive M Kandlas, and return to a grateful mother as the narrative frames Bills as frontier heroes.
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