05 Feb 1881
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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 05, 1881
Page
1
The notice outlines rates for one inch ads at one dollar for a week and twenty five cents for each additional week. It also notes double rates for nonpariet and foreign terms, requires prepayment for transient ads, and states yearly contracts on reasonable terms limited to the advertiser’s immediate business. Ads must be submitted by Thursday noon to appear in the next issue.
In summer-time how fast it showed my garden by the village road with fiery blossom and rosy blushing. The speaker recalls a vanished dream and how, though dead in the waning moon, the flowers will hear rain when Spring renews hill and plain. The garden becomes God’s garden now, and will be mine again in memory.
The Turners Falls Reporter notes that PAPER is now used for car wheels and has long served for tracts. It says the Golden Rule asks to print a column advertisement three or four times and will exchange with the paper, praising its generosity while deeming the Rule brassy.
A Portsmouth Virginia resident Jonn Glover reports severe aggravated cough and chest soreness improved quickly after using Dr Bull's Cough Syrup, stating the product gave speedy relief and satisfactory results.
The Chicago Tribune notes most papers decline poetry payments but offers a cent a pound for verses submitted on white paper to foster genuine literary effort. The item highlights the paper’s incentive approach to encourage poets.
Ladies who value elegance seek Parker's Hair Balsam as the best product to restore gray hair to its original color and beauty. The advertisement touts purity and effectiveness, targeting women seeking a natural look.
The old Crockett residence in Lawrenceburg Tennessee remains intact and locals claim possession of legal papers written by Crockett in his role as Justice of the Peace. He once ran a nearby mill while his wife handled grain grinding.
A cobbled 19th century advertorial notes that snuffer dust and caustic solutions worsen catarrh while Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy soothes cleanses and heals. Each package makes one pint for fifty cents and is sold by druggists with a past offer of $500 to the former proprietor if a case remained uncured.
In Boston the home of James T Fields overlooks Back Bay. The library houses ten thousand volumes and autograph copies with portraits by Lely and Dickens. Guests have included Dickens Hawthorne Trollope Kingsley Cushman and Bayard Taylor. The house hosts literary circles with Mrs Fields and visiting writers sharing recent works and essays.
Motivational line urges focus on future peaks rather than past hills, emphasizing forward vision and perseverance.
Beulah Sharpe and her sisters pool earnings to save for a home for their father, Davy, Agnes, and Ida. They work in a mill, save diligently, invest, and finally surprise Mr. Sharpe with a deed to a Kent cottage, grounding their family in faith, hard work, and hope.
In a fragment of miscellany, a poetic comparison links the human heart to love and the hearth to fire, presenting Erethy as a household lamp guiding light within domestic life. The obscure phrasing suggests a literary or devotional snippet.
A fragment notes table etiquette as a sign of common sense. It recalls a lady who placed the fruit dish close, teased the pears to the softest, always took the largest orange, and was a capable Latin and French scholar, described by a Congregationalist.
A magazine fragment explains how to view the bottom of a well using a sunlit mirror to reveal depths and pull out foreign debris. It then describes banana growth, stalk structure, flowering cones, spathes, and fruit development, noting productivity and propagation from shoots.
Article surveys the harms of alcohol linking to multiple diseases from stomach to brain and liver, warns of insidious harm, and cites Dr. B. W. Richardson. It also contains a humorous exchange about weather forecasting methods with Spoopendyke characters while discussing barbometer antics and political jabs. Then reports on Arabian showmen in the United States with Bedouin chief, dervish, sword dance, and cultural notes.
On a Burlington railroad car a young man with a turban hat denounces traditional hell as fiendish. He declares man was not born to punishment and God did not make him for kindling wood, while an old parson near the stove jokes that the idea is too green.
A gentleman recalls laughing at his father’s pronunciation of furniteur from boyhood. Now his children tell him that is the correct form, and he regards his father as a highly accomplished old gentleman through the years of laughter and learning.
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