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Newspaper
Bristol Phoenix
Location
Bristol, Rhode Island, United States of America
Date
Feb 07, 1885
Page
4
A humorous scene describes prize cups for a race shown by a jeweler. An observer jokes about race stakes while a stranger wins the cups. The talk shifts to a man named Julius and the trouble of naming a child after a living namesake, fearing stigma if the real person errs.
The Deacon Bodkin recalls a mischievous tale from youth about Black John and a race to the old red schoolhouse. A rug pulled from a horse saddle causes a spill and a dramatic tumble, with laughter tempered by admonition from Mrs Bodkin and the girls.
A satirical vein quotes a Mahometan proverb about worldly good and virtue. The piece asserts a dire need for relief from a cold with Dr Bull's Cough Syrup as the remedy.
A fashionable physician mocks Parker's Tonic as quack medicine but a wealthy patient accepts it and is cured of neuralgia caused by stomach and nerve disorder. News of the cure spreads as friends mimic keeping Parker's Tonic at home.
Thousands in Girard Kansas praise Electric Bitters as the purest medicine for kidney and liver complaints. The product purifies blood, regulates bowels, and saves doctors bills, sold by J H Young & Co at fifty cents a bottle.
A testimonial from Mrs Copp of Newport Rhode Island credits Sulphur Bitters with curing years of leucorrhea after trying the remedy. The ad promotes Bucklen's Arnica Salve as a universal skin healer, claiming guaranteed satisfaction or money back, 25 cents per box, sold by J H Young & Co.
In the Bull Run engagement John Meigs son of General Meigs commands with no visible generals nearby. He orders Colonel Mapleson to move the First California and later the Thirty first and Thirty second New York to support Green’s battery. He confesses he had been commanding without a general until wounded in the knee and later killed in the Shenandoah Valley.
A New York World article discusses the unknown giant reptile Missourium, its 105 foot fossil, and similarities to snakes, fish, and alligators. It contrasts its massive eel like tail with a 24 foot circumference body and notes other extinct forms and the improbability of petrification in oceans.
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